Over on my other desk, I...
Upgraded to an eBay'd 4-port VGA/USB KVM and a USB4VC so I can make use of the Matias Tactile Pro and I-don't-need-this-Pi3B-anymore that I got for Christmas to make learning classic Mac OS programming as pleasant as possible without making the Win98SE experience less pleasant:
(Speaking of VGA, can anyone recommend a good source for low-SNR VGA cables? I think I used my only ones decent enough for 1280x1024 KVM use on this desk.)
It's not visible at that resolution, but I've printed out custom label stickers for the power center's switches.
If anyone can suggest an ATX PSU with high-quality electronics that I can use with those G4 Quicksilver adapter cables without need to modify the back of the case, that'd be greatly appreciated. Once that's done, I have plans to switch in a Noctua case and CPU fan.
(Also, received that 2009 polycarbonate macbook sitting on the G4 as a hand-me-down a couple of days ago. Buffed with toothpaste and then IPA to clean out the dirt visible in the case scratches, laboriously un-detached the edges of the rubber coating on the bottom and I have ordered replacements for the half of the bottom cover screws that are missing. Still need to drop by the local thrift store to pick up a suitably sized laptop bag... hopefully they'll have another Targus.)
Received a 2010 iMac in the same lot as the macbook. Cleaned the coffee out of the multimedia keys and function keys on the Logitech wireless keyboard it came with. Partitioned the hard drive and I'm waiting for the copy of Mac OS X 10.6.3 I eBay'd so I can dual-boot down to something old enough for my needs. Don't have enough leisure budget left for this month to upgrade the RAM on either mac (OWC still sells RAM kits all the way back to SIMMs for beige macs), don't yet feel confident in ordering and using OWC's service kit (suction cups, adhesive strips, etc.) to access and replace the rotating platter hard drive in the iMac, and I still need to figure out how to open the apparently screwless Microsoft wireless mouse without damaging it so I can see whether the scroll wheel functioning as a middle-mouse button but not a scroll wheel is fixable.
(The video I like to use to prevent glossy monitor reflections from showing in photos is a docu/history video named Early CGI Was Horrifying. The frame pictured is at 24:01 and it's from an animation named Polly Gone, to which the narrator says "I gotta ask. Is this a sh*tpost. ...like, the first sh*tpost? ...because it feels like it. It's so far removed from everything else released in this time. [enumerates reasons]")
Cut down, tape-reinforced, re-punched, and rounded some 8.5x11" insertable-tab dividers to make suitably "these don't look home-made" dividers for a high-quality mini-binder that feels maybe 70s or 80s vintage and takes 6x9.5" sheets:
(Not sure what I'll use it for yet, but it just feels so nice in my hands. I'll probably chop down some graph paper to replace the lined paper it came with.)
DeoxIT'd the microswitches on my favourite mouse and installed a replacement scroll wheel with no rubber to swell. (See previous photos.) Also, installed a replacement scroll wheel with un-swelled, un-sticky rubber in its precursor... the still-functional Logitech G3 from 2007. (It's quite viable to go on eBay and purchase replacement Logitech parts by eye when no listings refer to your specific model.)
...oh, and I still need to find time to (carefully) drill new mounting holes in the plastic shell of an mSATA-to-IDE converter so I can replace the dead drive in an old NEC Versa with its specialized housing for user-removable hard drives and see if my sheet metal skills are up to making an expansion slot plate for an IDE-SD adapter based on a template I took from a 3d-printed one I paid too much for.