mbliss11 wrote on 2022-02-15, 12:25:

Had to update the office/man cave and have gone vertical with shelving. Have also been getting into a lot of 8 and 16bit computers lately Commodores are a lot of fun.

You have some nice equipment there, especially the CRTs! What's that one connected to the SNES?

Joakim wrote on 2022-02-15, 14:06:

mbliss11 wrote on 2022-02-15, 12:25:

Had to update the office/man cave and have gone vertical with shelving. Have also been getting into a lot of 8 and 16bit computers lately Commodores are a lot of fun.

You have some nice equipment there, especially the CRTs! What's that one connected to the SNES?

That is a Sony PVM 8044Q I have another 8 inch PVM too that is a newer acquisition. I am working on getting a 13 inch up and running again unfortunately it arrived in a non working condition and may need a new power supply board. So far that has been the only CRT that I have received that has come damaged from shipping. Lesson learned - ask for double boxing and talk to sellers

I find even 13" monitors too small. So I can't imagine using an 8" one.

kixs wrote on 2022-02-15, 17:02:

I find even 13" monitors too small. So I can't imagine using an 8" one.

It wasn't so bad as a kid. I remember the screen of my Game Boy being perfectly fine. But I couldn't imagine sitting hunched over, staring at a tiny little screen now, as an adult.

fool wrote on 2022-02-09, 18:29:

Yesterday I was about to reorganize my "computing area" ...wasn't inspiring enough really. Needs some drivers.

I understand you completely, I have the same "problem" with my collection. 😀 Great hardware by the way.

My 90s Computer area... today!

pinesal wrote on 2022-02-19, 03:22:

My 90s Computer area... today!20220218_191545-picsay.jpg

This looks like a nice place to rest and play some Dos-games👍

Paadam wrote on 2022-01-09, 19:37:

This is my temporary IBM computing area :) Temporary as in I will have to empty the room in a week so that decorators can come a […]
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This is my temporary IBM computing area 😀 Temporary as in I will have to empty the room in a week so that decorators can come and paint walls (not the brick wall).

Aptiva is original aside from P 100MHz -> 166 MHz MMX and 2x32 MB RAM, Netvista is sort of a hot-rod: consists of MSI s1150 mATX system board and i7 4790 CPU, 16GB RAM, new PSU, GTX 1060 6 GB etc.
Monitor is Eizo UXGA (1600x1200), with several inputs so I can just swap between computers.
Still have to source beige IBM multimedia keyboard, I like them a lot.

Oh I really like the brick wall and the half light. Perfect place for playing DOOM. And the sleeper netvista is a great idea as well!

pinesal wrote on 2022-02-19, 03:22:

My 90s Computer area... today!

A Magic Eye book from the 90! Yay! 😁

So here is mine, out in my corner of the garage. Kind of a multi-purpose thing. Plenty of room to spread everything out, watch a movie and put together a retro pc!

That's a great setup. Also love the Centurion 5 case. What projector are you using?

That projector setup it brilliant! It makes me want one, if I had a free wall to project onto.

The great thing about projectors is that VGA is abundant on even the cheapest models that people just throw away.

Not as clean as I would like, but hey the world may end any day now, so I'd better post while I have the chance.

Haven't been on here in awhile, been super busy with work. I've been eyeballing Pentium 3 stuff on ebay.

I had to downsize, and this room doubles as my office, so there's a white board behind the projector screen. I've got a printer in there too. And I've crammed quite a bit of gear in there.

80 inch screen, Sony 295 ES, G9 Odyssey, some Benq office monitor,

Aerial 5B, Pioneer BS22, Polk OWM3, three 8 inch Frankenstein subs, Pioneer SC 09 TX,

6700k, 2080 Ti, 16Gb ram, etc. Bunch of hard drives etc.

Falcon Northwest Fragbox, circa 2005. It was unmolested when I got it, but I immediately started modifying it. Still has the original AMD 64, replaced the BFG 6800 with Zotac 750 zone, added some ram, added a audigy 2 zs, some moar fans, even replaced the fans in the power supply, replaced the working hdd raid with an SSD raid, which was a mistake. I kept all the parts. I would have jumped for joy to have one of these in high school; Early 2000's Lan parties were great.

Wall mounted machine is a windows 98 machine. AMD 64. ECS KV2 motherboard I had laying around, Passively cooled Ti 4200 (too much coil whine), Audigy 2 ZS. I'm not happy with this machine. Too many compatibility issues for what I want it to do.

I've got a working MS Force Feedback joystick too. I'm happy with this.

And I've got a Sony X800m2 and a Vertex 2, so I can LLDV any movie I watch in here.

And there's a twin daybed too. And a HM Embody chair I scored on craigslist.

And while this is not as 90's as I would like. I am going to rectify this deficiency later this year when I have time. But hopefully this sort C shaped set up will give others and idea of how much stuff they can cram in a 14x9 room if they really try. There's also around 500 books in that room too. I made a shelf that runs the whole room. And I've got about 90 PC gaming magazines from the 1999-2005 era in there too.

And I can run all three systems at once, and I have enough keyboards and mice to control them all at the same time too. Although, I trying to control a mouse and keyboard with my feet is hard.

What kind of projector and screen do you use?

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-03-07, 01:19:

That's a great setup. Also love the Centurion 5 case. What projector are you using?

Thank you. The projector I'm not even sure, a Sharp i think that just does720P, nothing special. It and an old Sony surround sound system are adequate for "garage theater" !

fool wrote on 2022-02-09, 18:29:

Yesterday I was about to reorganize my "computing area" ...wasn't inspiring enough really. Needs some drivers.

Oh man... It's like a dream! 😁

Congrats!

One day I'll post better pics this room is a work in progress.

vkcpolice wrote on 2022-03-22, 09:17:

One day I'll post better pics this room is a work in progress.

nice! always fun to have them side by side like this so you can go from chair to chair and from era to era!

If only that floor mat had a Gravis gamepad instead of an SNES controller. 😀