clueless1, how do you manage to use keyboards so close to the edge of the desk? I find it very uncomfortable to work or play with no space for my elbows...

RacoonRider wrote:

clueless1, how do you manage to use keyboards so close to the edge of the desk? I find it very uncomfortable to work or play with no space for my elbows...

I don't know...I've always just rested my wrists on the edge of the table, letting my elbows hang off. That's normal to me. 😀 Besides, I wouldn't have room on this desk to push the keyboard forward enough for my elbows to rest on the desktop. The keyboard would end up near the wall.

It's a rather small space I got carved out, and the camera quality sucks as I'm just using the camera on a cheap Android tablet atm, but here's my little area with the laptop and the 433c on the same desk. Keyboard for the 433 is stored on the tower and put in my lap whenever I wanna mess with it.

Also, got three different generations of hardware in another pic, got the laptop, 433c, and dc5750 running all in the same pic. The 5750's connected to the TV for a monitor.

And for an added bonus, here's a shot of the 433c being loaded up with ME, which it's currently running.

Here is my two rooms i use for computer stuff

Man I like how bright it is!

So many Neo Geo games! That must be like $5k worth of MVS/AES carts...

http://imgur.com/a/8L3fl

For a slight update to mine, I got rid of the old hardware, and started using my laptop for mostly everything, got Win7 x86 set up in a VM for playing 3.x, 9x, and earlier XP titles, plus DOSbox for DOS titles, and of course Win10 x64 for newer Win titles.

For an added bonus, here's a screencap of the basic system info for both the 10 x64 host, and the 7 x86 VM.

This is my current setup:

Nice setup Kanecvr, are all the display items still working? My GF would shoot me if I did that much of a setup in my house. Luckily I have it functional for me now, it's listed somewhere in this thread.

Bullmecha wrote:

Nice setup Kanecvr, are all the display items still working? My GF would shoot me if I did that much of a setup in my house. Luckily I have it functional for me now, it's listed somewhere in this thread.

Thanks. The display cases are in my hobby room, so they don't really bother my GF 😜 Everything on display works - stuff that doesn't gets salvaged for parts then scrapped - unless it's something very rare.

kanecvr wrote:

Bullmecha wrote:

Nice setup Kanecvr, are all the display items still working? My GF would shoot me if I did that much of a setup in my house. Luckily I have it functional for me now, it's listed somewhere in this thread.

Thanks. The display cases are in my hobby room, so they don't really bother my GF 😜 Everything on display works - stuff that doesn't gets salvaged for parts then scrapped - unless it's something very rare.

I wish people would learn to repair circuitry instead of learn how to turn potentially repariable parts into there basic elements by scrapping.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

kanecvr wrote:

Bullmecha wrote:

Nice setup Kanecvr, are all the display items still working? My GF would shoot me if I did that much of a setup in my house. Luckily I have it functional for me now, it's listed somewhere in this thread.

Thanks. The display cases are in my hobby room, so they don't really bother my GF 😜 Everything on display works - stuff that doesn't gets salvaged for parts then scrapped - unless it's something very rare.

I wish people would learn to repair circuitry instead of learn how to turn potentially repariable parts into there basic elements by scrapping.

I do a lot of that. But there's parts you just can't fix. If the PCB traces or PCI / AGP goldfingers are damaged, most of the time I can't fix it - so I strip it of any usable passive components I might need (capacitors and such) and some of them of ram or ICs if they are worth the trouble. Others are fixable but are more trouble then it's worth -like a tnt2 m64 or geforce 4 mx.

Right now I'm working on fixing a voodoo 5 5500 - thread here: Need help reviving a V5 5500... and a Geforce 2 Titanium http://i.imgur.com/KiaMyWZm.jpg - these are both pretty rare and fixable since the Geforce 2 Ti is missing some (a lot actually - caps, resistors, diodes and some resistor networks) surface mount parts and once I find a 560 ohm and 220 ohm 0603 resistor network, the card should post. The V5 is another matter altogether. It has two damaged SDRAM chips - and they can only be replaced by identical chips. I can't order the chips new (can't find them anywhere) so I'll have to take them off another card - usually Geforce 2 MX cards have these 166Mhz SDRAM chips - so - a common geforce 2 mx gets salvaged for parts so that a rare voodoo 5 5500 can live on. Seems like a fair trade to me.

Did I mention both cards were rescued from a recycling center? They are missing bits because they were thrown in bins with other cards stacked on top and probably mixed around. In fact lots of the rarer cards in that display case are rescued from scrappers. Some needed repairs, others didn't. Everything except for the Asus ti4600 and the Leadtek GF 2 Ti work. The GF2 is repairable, but the ti4600 is not. The GPU is damaged. It came to me completely dead, I re-balled it (you have no idea how hard it is to get a BGA mesh for a geforce 4 ti) but it artifacts and freezes. It's cool enough to go in the display case, and it acts as a replacement for when I want to use the working Chaintech Ti4600.

Oh yeah - I updated my display cases. I moved the 939 / LGA775 and PCI-E stuff and replaced them with my ATi card collection and some PCI sound cards.

in the process of relocating mine, and I upgraded to a bigger second monitor, so now both screens are HD.

Photo of the area in progress.

Screencap of the host and the Win7 VM.

Area is now complete aside from cleanup of the floor to be done tomorrow, and I have Dolphin running on the TV in the second photo.

And finally, a shot of everything closed up to end this post.

kanecvr wrote:

Nice

Love those cards you put next to the parts. Could you make a closeup of one of them. Love to see what info there is on it.

So yesterday I bought a couple of cheap IKEA desks and claimed a part of a mostly unused room in the house to make a temporary place to futz around with my old PC's:

It ain't much to look at I guess but now I can comfortably use all of these systems, previously they were scattered all over the house on the floor etc. 😀

Still don't have room for the Amiga and Commodore 8-bit stuff, though...

Looks nice... which IKEA desk are those in particular?

Great setup. I'd love to have a dedicated computer room 😀

The desks are probably the LINNMON / ADILS combination, I have one of them in glossy white, you can see a photo on the thread below. I think they work well and are very reasonable in price:
post up pics of your "computing area"

Here is the Ikea page:
http://www.ikea.com/fr/fr/catalog/products/S29932181/

MMaximus wrote:

Great setup. I'd love to have a dedicated computer room 😀

The desks are probably the LINNMON / ADILS combination, I have one of them in glossy white, you can see a photo on the thread below. I think they work well and are very reasonable in price:
post up pics of your "computing area"

Sharp eyes there, they are indeed LINNMON in very dark brown (almost black) with white ADILS legs. 😀

Probably the single cheapest way to get 3 m of desk space... But they're sturdy enough. I didn't want to spend a lot of money as this is a temporary setup anyway.

Thanks... I may pick up one in the future.