Been caught up in the holiday grind one way or another since mid December, might get some free retro time now... Getting real excited that the office room is getting closer to reality, was on hold, now the relative's junk is gone and progress might happen. Needs some R&R doing to it while it's emptyish first. Wife keeps trying to add "while we are at it"s .. no love, that's a whole 'nother project, not an extra 5 mins, I want clearly defined scope that takes a week, not a rambling reno that you're asking me why haven't we finished yet 6 months later.
Anyway, the retro part of that is it looks like there will be room for an approx 5ft long 2ft deep retro desktop, with modern taking the "6ft" arm of the L but not getting the corner, so ~4ft ... and probably a decent amount of shelving against the wall, can probably have some laptops stored to quick swap there, media and reference etc.
Preliminary big box store desk selection seems to be too small or large, and too fussy or too flimsy... one said it had max load of 100lb, eek, can I even bend over that to write on? So I don't know if I'm gonna find something right or have to hew one from a block of oak or something. Wife is set on something crisp and modern or new looking, gotta have a matching pair. Might have to go look at business desk place, consumer stuff is pretty nasty at the moment. One HUGE frustration of desk browsing online is that very few of the sellers seem to understand that the depth of a desk is an important dimension in an L or corner shape, front to back of surface, yes we also need the maximum X and Y and Z height, but I don't want a narrow plank a chromebook barely perches on thank you very much.
So real exciting, proper setup for a few retro machines in prospect.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
