Is that a Panasonic XR-57 I see there?

No bit it looks like it doesn't it? If you're referring to the top left component, that's just my cable box receiver....everything else except for the retro chrome/silver finish receiver and my kvm switch is sony all the way 🤣

Right, my desk is getting "a bit crowded" with three computers + screens on it, but hey, it's worth it 😀

The 486 now has a nice brand new old stock AT case with MHz display and turbo switch. The Compaq PIII is still located in the original Compaq case for the moment, but I needed the ATX tower my 486 used to be in for my K6-III, so for the time being it'll have to do.
From left to right the monitors naturally belongs to the 486, i7 and PIII. The other Alesis speaker is sitting on a shelf to the left of my desk lamp, and the Creative speakers are for my 486 at the moment (using main input for GUS and the front-input for SB16).
Sorry for the bad image quality, but my camera is currently on holiday in England, so I had to make do with my old Samsung Galaxy S for taking pics 😳
Oh, and the reason I only have one computer turned on at the moment is quite simply that because of it being summer at the moment, I wanna keep the heat down in my flat.
The K6-III is located on my coffee table at the moment, and so it will have to be photographed later... When I've finished tidying and cleaning my place *blush*

That's surprisingly organized for as much hardware as you have there; very nice. Out of curiosity, what's the red knob on the right do?

Can't go wrong with Dell monitors. Should have the bass box on the floor for putting your feet on though.

obobskivich wrote:

That's surprisingly organized for as much hardware as you have there; very nice. Out of curiosity, what's the red knob on the right do?

The red knob is the "Easy Buttton". You press it and it goes "That was easy!". Good to have when you've just had to do something really complicated.

Ah! It just occurred to me that you probably weren't talking about that "red knob", but rather the black and red knob all the way to the right?
That's a SM Pro Audio Nano Patch +. It's a simple passive attenuator, or "volume knob" for my active monitors. Signal goes from my sound card into the Nano Patch and then into the active monitors. Let's me avoid having to adjust my volume via the Windows volume mixer, which isn't such a good solution in my opinion.

Harekiet wrote:

Can't go wrong with Dell monitors. Should have the bass box on the floor for putting your feet on though.

It's not a bass box. It's one of a pair of Alesis M1Active 520 powered studio monitors. The other one is just outside the left edge of the picture. They provide the sound from my main system.

LunarG wrote:

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obobskivich wrote:

That's surprisingly organized for as much hardware as you have there; very nice. Out of curiosity, what's the red knob on the right do?

The red knob is the "Easy Buttton". You press it and it goes "That was easy!". Good to have when you've just had to do something really complicated.

Ah! It just occurred to me that you probably weren't talking about that "red knob", but rather the black and red knob all the way to the right?
That's a SM Pro Audio Nano Patch +. It's a simple passive attenuator, or "volume knob" for my active monitors. Signal goes from my sound card into the Nano Patch and then into the active monitors. Let's me avoid having to adjust my volume via the Windows volume mixer, which isn't such a good solution in my opinion.

I was thinking about the red/black knob, but after reading this I went back and looked at the picture again and saw the other big red knob/button and wasn't curious... 🤣

Nano Patch looks really simple, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg (like some "studio controllers" do); neat find there. I'll have to keep that in mind down the road... 😀

ALR Flyer VL Green (486 DX2-50)
TVM Technologies SuperSync 2a

Samsung 486S/25Q (486 SX-25 and Kingston Turbochip)
ALR Evolution 5DT (Pentium-166)
Siemens Nixdorf Scenic Pro C5 (Pentium 233 MMX)

That Samsung 486 is cute 😀

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

That Samsung 486 is cute 😀

Yes, it is, but there are questions to build quality and it is quite loud.

Its specs are:

Samsung motherboard (Phoenix BIOS, socketed DALLAS battery)
486 SX-25 soldered in
Socket 1 (a jumper selects between soldered and socketed CPU) - currently Kingston Turbochip TC5X86-133 inserted
4 Mb memory soldered
8 * SIMM (30-pin) - currently 8 x 1Mb making overall 12 Mb
Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 built-in video, 2 Mb video memory
3 x full length ISA slots on a riser
PS/2 keyboard and mouse
6 * cache slots (empty)
1 * IDE (Samsung 250 Mb HDD primary + Creative 4x CD-ROM slave). Originally there was a 5.25" TEAC FDD instead a CD-ROM.
3.5" Samsung FDD
100W PSU (standard AT connector)

Photos (taken year ago when I bought it):

front
back
inside #1
inside #2

@ bristlehog...nice setup with a nice array of some real retro computers...out of all the ones you have there the ALRs are my favourite ones for sure.

Finally added another full length table (I have 3: 2 now in use for computing). 😀

PeterLI wrote:

Finally added another full length table (I have 3: 2 now in use for computing). 😀

Awesome...gotta have those large tables for big CRT's and old school desktop cases. Makes it so much easier to work on! Very nice.

I like that the tables are similar as well, gives it a bit of a cleaner look.

Indeed. Bought 3 @ Raymour & Flanigan clearance back in 2009 / 2010. They are also very convenient for large dinner parties (Holidays). 🤣

Our biggest food chain today had a special tax free sale on all electronics. Of course I couldn't resist the urge and bought a computer for DIRT cheap, plus Microsoft mouse&keyboard. 😁
The system is a Champion PC (my favorite brand), which this time is actually a rebranded version of the ECS MS300 - http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Product/Prod … nuID=10&LanID=0

The specs aren't very impressive but I really wanted a small form factor PC and a quiet machine. The downside- it came with Windows 8.1 pre-installed.

A few upgrades in my Sanctuary:

Congratulations for your places mates: really epic!

I like that little Champion PC 😀

What specs did it come with?

Windows 8.1 is actually really good. Much better than 8. I went back to 7 after trying 8 but 8.1 I love 😀

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

I like that little Champion PC 😀

What specs did it come with?

Windows 8.1 is actually really good. Much better than 8. I went back to 7 after trying 8 but 8.1 I love 😀

The specs are:
Intel Core i3 3.4GHz
4.0 GB RAM
Windows 8.1 64 bit
DVD RW
500 GB Storage
Intel HD Graphics

I'm starting to get the hang of Windows 8.1, although I am pissed about two things: there is no more the ability to play DVDs without pro / third party and there's no Windows virtual pc anymore (which i need for legacy software).
I was able to work-around these issue by installing vmware player and a Windows 7 guest.

Unless Microsoft separate their Desktop OS from their Tablet OS for the next version of Windows, i.e. make it so that there it no touch-based UI at all, only mouse/keyboard based (desktop), I'll probably just swap to Linux when Windows 7 is no longer viable. I feel that their decision to attempt to force people onto a touchscreen based UI was such a bad one that they deserve to go bankrupt for it, unless they admit fault and change this strategy.

Anyway, that was off-topic, just had to say it 😜 My apologies. Get back to the picture posts 😁