Finally might be able to plan out my dedicated "office" area setup again. Spare room is getting cleared out. Will be able to have something like a 6ft by 3ft ish desktop, meaning double 24" Sansuis one end for modern on an i7 box, and a shoebox itx quad. Then the other end for retro 19" CRT annnd a 4 way KVM, PS/2 and 15pin VGA.
So I'll probably swap stuff around periodically, but what all I have that's PS/2 and VGA and somewhat ready to go, which I need to pick 4 of are...
AST Advantage! 386sx25
IBM PC330 DX/2 66 (u.g. dx4?)
Compaq Deskpro 233MMX
Compaq PIII 600 sff
K6-3 build AT or ATX, though "togetherest" is just M571 in a minitower, slap a CPU in it, but need to figure out the PS/2 header.
Compaq Evo D300 P4 1.7, sdram
Kt333 socket A, got an XP 2100 that would drop in, or build a KT400 board with Tbred.
SiS s478 DDR board, 2.8E HT
Maybe a s754 board and A64 3000 via/agp ... it had a prob, I think I know what it is, but if it isn't it won't "go"
So somewhere in there, I want 3 of them to do DOS, at least one with 3.11, 2 or 3 with 98, maybe one with 95 also, and the top end I'd like to do triple boot 98/XP/lightweight linux. Something in the middle will get a V3 or banshee, top end will get ??? IDK, 9600, 4200, 5200, 9250.. won't want it to do hardcore late XP just to 04ish maybe.
Really I'm wondering which of four fastest to go with, then also where to condense the middle, do I need 233mmx with a K6-3+ I can change multi on.
Ultimately I might have a set of "ultra tunable" dial a speed machines in there, BL3 machine with 1,2,3 multipliers and various bus speeds, K6-3+ best sorted board for ditto and top end near 600. XP mobile going down to 300 easy, then maybe an X2 Black which can take over where XP leaves off, but that doesn't seem necessary, unless there's XP speed sensitive stuff I'm not remembering. Anyway, those all take a lot of bench time, just figuring what to fling in there and get it "established" that I will have a stack of retro machines in my half of the office 🤣
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.