brostenen wrote:True... When I have something to spare, I put it up for sale. Saving the money for something else. :-)
39 minutes you say? Hmmm. […]
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True... When I have something to spare, I put it up for sale. Saving the money for something else. 😀
39 minutes you say? Hmmm... That was fast. Though I would love to have those sounds, I do not feel
that I have the space for multiple Roland devices. And finally, I am more into what I personally
was using back from the mid-80's to somewere around 2001/02 when I retired all my old hardware.
I began collecting old parts again in 2013, and I must admit, that it is really hard these days.
Yes. Space is a huge issue, which is why I am trying to reorganize in a big way right now.
GF let me have an entire room (about 20 square meter) in our 3 room 67 square meter apartment, but it is very cluttered right now and I am sorting and organizing stuff, trying to increase efficiency. I plan on having about 9 meters of desk space with shelves above along the walls. It also has grounded power outlets that are separated from the rest of the apartment, as well as a few shared ones (no ground).
The room is going to be dedicated almost entirely to three main topics, mostly based on what I have right now. There is going to be a lot of overlap between the three topics.
Retro computing and gaming
5-10 retro PC's (only 4 are ready right now)
All my MIDI stuff (about 10 modules)
Amiga 1200
Commodore 64 (still missing this, trying to find a decent one, used to have one as a kid)
Atari ST (also currently a missing piece)
Consoles, XBox, PS2, N64, Gamecube: I have never been a console guy, but I want to play with these. They are mostly for the GF. I also want to play with NES, Sega stuff, etc. Maybe even Jamma arcade stuff.
A few Mac Mini G4's
Silicon Graphics O2
I also have 8 or 9 Sun SPARC machines, mostly Ultra 10's
15-20 laptops from 1992 to "modern"
Electronics
Components
Hot air rework station, and other tools
Power supplies
Oscilloscopes, etc.
SDR (Software Defined Radio) stuff, antennas.
Modern Computing Lab
5 "modern" Xeon workstations
3-4 servers (build servers, web, mail, Storage/SAN)
A stack of embedded systems: 2 x Soekris NET4501 and 7 x Soekris NET4801. Used for DNS, DHCP, NTP (Rubidium frequency standard with GPS), etc.
A rack with network and storage (Fibre Channel) switches, etc.
I also have two small rooms in the basement of the building. One of them is done, with shelves on three walls for lidded plastic containers/boxes. The other one need to be cleaned out, and have shelves put in.