douglar wrote on 2020-09-28, 18:06:

Starts with the kids remote school stations, then my work stations, then my retro-pc area, and then the old micro fun.

Photo Sep 28, 1 57 42 PM.jpg

Nice workshop, I think i would need somewhere a bit more comfortable for gaming, but that's just me.

Nice setup.

kolderman wrote on 2020-09-28, 18:42:

Nice workshop, I think i would need somewhere a bit more comfortable for gaming, but that's just me.

Thanks!

The PC's on top of the right cabinet have additional monitors & keyboards on the ground floor, where the gaming happens.

Putting your PC's in a different room eliminates the need for quiet fans, but the down side is that it's annoying when I start a DRG mission, only to realize that the active headset is on a different floor.

douglar wrote on 2020-09-28, 23:47:

kolderman wrote on 2020-09-28, 18:42:

Nice workshop, I think i would need somewhere a bit more comfortable for gaming, but that's just me.

Thanks!

The PC's on top of the right cabinet have additional monitors & keyboards on the ground floor, where the gaming happens.

Heh, that's clever.

After spending a good long while managing cables, and doing a handful of upgrades here and there, I've finally gotten my setups back to being presentable. The first one is my old systems room, which is really more of a repurposed closet. The Active system in that picture has seen some intense focus, which I will post about in the Retro Activities thread soon.

The second one is my the DP 1.42 GHz G4 and my modern system. It's been upgraded to have 32GB of RAM for the sake of Flight Sim, which is now on it's own NVMe drive.

that is a magnificent CRT :3c

imi wrote on 2020-10-01, 09:13:

that is a magnificent CRT :3c

She's great, even if she's heavy as hell and doesn't like certain resolution and refresh rate combos.

I know the table sure doesn't seem to be liking it ^^

imi wrote on 2020-10-01, 19:21:

I know the table sure doesn't seem to be liking it ^^

It's been putting up with the weight for the better part of a year. It's just a plastic table, so it's cheaply hollow on the inside.

Here's my not so little retro computing space. The 486 VLB PCs are rem0ved for some work, but that little beige thin client is a 5x86 133 too. I'm planning to give it a CD rom drive at some point.

To the side of the monitor are a Roland SC-155 and an MT-100. The hardmpu along with the MT100 were 100% worth it for classic westwood games 😀 I only had the SB 2.0's OPL2 back in the day, but I can tell that a few of these tracks were composed with Roland's stuff first.

At this point, the 386DX 40 on the top sees the most use (also ergh, its green power LED has just broken, I wonder why?) but there's a Tualatin w/V5 5500 and a Pentium w/Voodoo 1 in the stack. At some point I'll need to try to remove the redundacy.

These are just the built up PCs though, I have a few 386s, 486s and pentiums in parts. Rescuing old hardware has worked out too well 😒 For instance, my plan was to have ONE 286/386sx, now I have 3 of them.

Nice little corner! (Needs more 5.25" floppy drives though 😀)

They'd be there if I could get one working 😀

I'd install it anyway just for the looks 🤣

Thermalwrong wrote on 2020-10-03, 21:46:

These are just the built up PCs though, I have a few 386s, 486s and pentiums in parts. Rescuing old hardware has worked out too well 😒 For instance, my plan was to have ONE 286/386sx, now I have 3 of them.

I'd say its working out better then expected!
also like your attempt of camouflaging from the wife, may try the same. That damn tree isn't growing fast enough though 😉

Thermalwrong wrote on 2020-10-03, 21:46:

Here's my not so little retro computing space. The 486 VLB PCs are rem0ved for some work, but that little beige thin client is a […]
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Here's my not so little retro computing space. The 486 VLB PCs are rem0ved for some work, but that little beige thin client is a 5x86 133 too. I'm planning to give it a CD rom drive at some point.

To the side of the monitor are a Roland SC-155 and an MT-100. The hardmpu along with the MT100 were 100% worth it for classic westwood games 😀 I only had the SB 2.0's OPL2 back in the day, but I can tell that a few of these tracks were composed with Roland's stuff first.

At this point, the 386DX 40 on the top sees the most use (also ergh, its green power LED has just broken, I wonder why?) but there's a Tualatin w/V5 5500 and a Pentium w/Voodoo 1 in the stack. At some point I'll need to try to remove the redundacy.

These are just the built up PCs though, I have a few 386s, 486s and pentiums in parts. Rescuing old hardware has worked out too well 😒 For instance, my plan was to have ONE 286/386sx, now I have 3 of them.

Oh wow, I used to have that exact same model Dell 17" Trinitron CRT! My Dad got me one for free from work when the office where he worked upgraded to TFT monitors. Excellent picture quality. And there was just something incredibly satisfying about navigating the OSD menu with those wonderfully squishy arrow buttons and selecting "degauss". ☺️

I think I passed it on to my brother when I bought my first TFT monitor. And later it collected dust for awhile when he got a TFT monitor as well. Eventually we got rid of it.

This is where I do my retro gaming.
the 486 dx on the desk, but its usually not on the desk, thats where I usually have my work laptop.
on the right bottom is my newest find , a Pentium 2 355 MMX Compaq Presario
beside that is a new Pentium 2 355 non mmx Compaq deskpro
next is my Pentium 4
and beside that is my Pentium 1 200 MHz machine and I just added a 200 MHz MMX cpu into it today.

Where do your legs go 🤣

Law212 wrote on 2020-10-07, 02:30:

This is where I do my retro gaming. the 486 dx on the desk, but its usually not on the desk, thats where I usually have my work […]
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This is where I do my retro gaming.
the 486 dx on the desk, but its usually not on the desk, thats where I usually have my work laptop.
on the right bottom is my newest find , a Pentium 2 355 MMX Compaq Presario
beside that is a new Pentium 2 355 non mmx Compaq deskpro
next is my Pentium 4
and beside that is my Pentium 1 200 MHz machine and I just added a 200 MHz MMX cpu into it today.

I had that black Compaq machine in late '97! Presario 4850, right?
I'd love to get my hands on another one of those someday. Software DVD playback, AGP video, PII processor, built in video capture--it was a Multimedia Dream Machine (tm) back in the day. 😀

kolderman wrote on 2020-10-07, 02:50:

Where do your legs go 🤣

I dont have legs. You think you're funny now?

No leg room is a common theme I've noticed! Must be hard on the back.