Well, I'm damned impressed by all the display cases : I just chuck my gear in a chest of drawers..

I use a large pine dining table to hold my computers as it has to cope with a couple of CRT monitors, three TFTs, and other kit. I was going to use a 'proper' curved desk but realised it did the job perfectly by itself.

I'm in the process of slowly moving things from my current computer room (overflowing with unorganised stuff, very untidy) into a fair bit smaller room, but much more organised. I think I can still fit it all in

Went to Ikea today and got myself a Malm desk. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60214183/

My setup looks pretty much the same but now with a much cleaner and less scratched up desk surface!

New setup.

Here's a slightly nausea inducing panoramic of my man cave – or "home office" as its officially called as I do share it with my wife. From left to right there's my wife’s stand-up / sit-down desk which hosts the family PC / media server. Moving along is my retro station – the monitor, keyboard, etc are static but I switch various retro machines in and out. Far left corner is my "modern" gaming machine (at least 5 years old now). Far right corner is my CRT telly; various consoles are rotated through this space but the C64 is a permanent fixture.

The walls are covered with the kids artwork to add cheer and hide my awful plastering job. I really like this room 😀

Did a little rearranging. The four beige PCs are (from right-to-left):
1. 486DX2-66, DOS6.22, 8MB 30-pin, CL-GD5428 VLB and SBPro2-compatible Packard Bell sound card (Aztech chip with Yamaha OPL3)
2. Packard Bell Multimedia C110 with POD200MMX, DOS6.22, 32MB 72-pin edo, TNT2 M64 PCI, Audician 32 Plus/DreamBlaster S1
3. HP Vectra VL with Slot 1 P2-400, Win98SE, Voodoo3 2000 PCI, 128MB SDRAM, Aztech ISA
4. Dell Dimension 4100 with Socket 370 P3-933, Win98SE, 512MB SDRAM, GeForce FX5200 128-bit, SBLive!
currently the two DOS machines are connected via KVM to a Viewsonic A75f flat CRT and Dell QuietKey keyboard. The Packard Bell uses a Logitech optical PS/2, while the 486 uses a Logitech Mouseman PS/2 with serial adapter.

And the PC on the far right is my daily driver/GOG gamer:
-Xeon 3070, XP SP3, 4GB DDR2, GeForce 8800GTX, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.
the monitor here is a Princeton LCD 1280x1024, with KeyTronic Lifetime Series PS/2 and Logitech optical PS/2.

All systems share the Gateway ACS41 speakers with a Chinese-branded audio switcher. 😉

This is my computing area after a long time. Quite messy,I know.

Not pictured is one of my 05' builds - see specs below:

JNC RJA-52 case (which is literally massive)
Modecom FEEL-400ATX 400W PSU (built by Deer/L&C - this one is also massive as hell,PFC may contribute to this?)
ASUS K8N motherboard (codenamed "K8NF3" 😁 )
Sony CRX-320E DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive
ATI Radeon HD3450 512MB AGP8X GPU
40GB Maxtor 6E040L0 ATA HDD
80GB Maxtor 6Y080L0 ATA HDD
80GB Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00 SATA HDD
Micro2003 (Windows Server 2003 5.2.3790 - trimmed down a lot,uses only 77MB RAM idle)
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I love the original xbox up on the desk.

Trank wrote:

I love the original xbox up on the desk.

I like that it's still working. They're built to last,and incredibily easy to mod if you're handy with a soldering iron.

Mine's running an X2 5035 BIOS (mainly for the blue intro instead of green) and it's got a 80GB WDC WD800BB in it. (previously a robust built 80GB Maxtor)

In my opinion it's really handy,and takes much less space than an average HTPC.

PcBytes wrote:

In my opinion it's really handy,and takes much less space than an average HTPC.

Agree, Put a 2TB drive in mine earlier this year. Not that big on gaming on it but XBMC + standard Def TV its actually more useful day to day then any of my PC's round that time if I want to be honest with myself (but I don't)

@clueless1: I see the radiator... Do you live in an older house?

keenmaster486 wrote:

@clueless1: I see the radiator... Do you live in an older house?

Yep, sure do 😀 The radiated heating is fairly efficient, takes a little getting used to though. It takes 30+ minutes for the house to heat up after the boiler turns on, but once desired temp is reached and the boiler kicks off, the radiators retain the heat for quite awhile.

chinny22 wrote:

Agree, Put a 2TB drive in mine earlier this year. Not that big on gaming on it but XBMC + standard Def TV its actually more useful day to day then any of my PC's round that time if I want to be honest with myself (but I don't)

Right. I might snag a FX5200 (or whatever AGP card I can find - I'd like to find a TNT Riva,or a GF4 MX440,or the already mentioned 5200) and a 200GB WDC drive and drop it in the Xbox just for fun. I had so much bad luck with 160GBs (WDC and two Samsungs) that I'd say 200GBs are better in IDE flavours.

Nice areas, I have not looking good one. Small PC room, no flowers, no pictures ... only 1,5 ton HW on left, on right ... everywhere.

chose007 wrote:

Nice areas, I have not looking good one. Small PC room, no flowers, no pictures ... only 1,5 ton HW on left, on right ... everyw […]
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Nice areas, I have not looking good one. Small PC room, no flowers, no pictures ... only 1,5 ton HW on left, on right ... everywhere.

Dude, your storage thingies look very nice! It reminds me of those Mayan walls where the stones are stacked soo tightly together that not even bacteria can get in between them 😜.
There's a thread on Vogons (or several actually) about how to store lots of stuff, I'd be very interested in learning your story behind your storage solutions 😀.

I'd really not like to be neeing the bottom computer case though 😵

edit: The threads are here, perhaps you will enjoy the read 😀.
Lets all share tips of how we organize our collection of retro computer stuff :)
How do you organise / sort / store all your retro gear?
How do you store your computer parts?

Nothing special about these storages, Its my own product.
You can do same too 😀

I'm not really a handyman, but I did it this way post up pics of your "computing area"

Hi everyone, this is my first post. I'll post some inside shots if any interest.

imendit wrote:

Hi everyone, this is my first post. I'll post some inside shots if any interest.

Well....YEAH! 😀 Those cases look brand new. Are they KVM'd? I only see one keyboard/mouse.

These are of the flat case. running an AMD 386 SX/SXL @ 33Mhz with 16mb ram.