mjnman wrote on 2025-09-15, 14:03:

My retro room.

Your retro room is simply fantastic; it's essentially a world that developed between the '80s and the early 2000s 🤩

Are the arcade cabinets original (perhaps with modern hardware inside, with Mame running the software) or are they reproductions? (they're still exceptional, though)
“Comunque la monetina da 500 lire (o almeno così mi sembra) per giocare a Super Street Fighter II è un must!” 😁

For other users, sorry for the Italian text; I was talking about inserting old, out-of-circulation Italian coins to play Super Street Fighter II (watch in video).

It's all beautiful; I hope to do something similar one day. For now, I'll have to make do with a little space on my desk and keep the rest in the box 😅

Both Dimitris1980 and mjnman
Not sure if I'm more jealous of your collections or just the amount of space you have to set them up properly!

chinny22 wrote on 2025-09-16, 01:06:

Both Dimitris1980 and mjnman
Not sure if I'm more jealous of your collections or just the amount of space you have to set them up properly!

I used to have a small office room in the house where I live (my wife's house actually) but now it's a room for the one of my daughters 🙂.

So, in 2022 , I transported almost all my retro equipment to the house (my house) where I grew up and I made the living room as a retro computer playing 😁 room 😀.

In the house where I live, I have an Apple iMac G3 and a Philips cd-i console.

[contemplative jazz music]

Year 2001 eye Candy of my previous home computer room.
Windows 2000 era.
It’s all gone now.
This is what a home computer room looked like in Silicon Valley California.
We used Cable modem networks.

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2025-09-24, 10:38:

Year 2001 eye Candy of my previous home computer room. Windows 2000 era. It’s all gone now. This is what a home computer room lo […]
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Year 2001 eye Candy of my previous home computer room.
Windows 2000 era.
It’s all gone now.
This is what a home computer room looked like in Silicon Valley California.
We used Cable modem networks.

I spy that same Sun Microsystems "ultracomputing" mousepad 😎

chinny22 wrote on 2025-07-23, 06:50:

Taken a year, it's still not quite finished, but here is my retro setup. […]
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Taken a year, it's still not quite finished, but here is my retro setup.

I had something very similar in the UK but as anyone with more then 2 computers can confirm. cabling becomes a nightmare. so have put more thought into it this time.

This is my "THE RACK OF POWER" (consumption)

Bottom Shelf left to right.
Duel 1Ghz G4 Mac G4 Got myself a Mac G4 -Help!
Dual Xeon 5450, Radeon HD 4890 Crossfire XP build: My Dual Socket XP Build
Dual Xeon 3.8Ghz Windows 2000 Server build: Windows 2000 20th Anniversary Client/server build

Second from the bottom shelf.
Duel Xeon E5504 Win7/XP build: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t= ... soundcard)
Slot 1 P3 1Ghz GF4 Ti4600 Dos/Win98 build: Dell makes surprisingly good retro PC's
S370 P3 1Ghz, Voodoo 3 PCI (Work in progress)

Third from the bottom shelf
Dual Slot 1 P3 600, GF2 MX + Voodoo 2 SLI Dos/Win98/2k build: Asus P2B-DS Build
Dual PPro 200, Matrox Mystique, Voodoo 1 Dos/Win95/NT3.51 build: Duel Pentium Pro build
Slot A Athlon 650, Banshee, Vortex 2 Dos/Win98 build: Slot A FIC SD11 Dumpter find

"Comms shelf"
Pair of dial up modems, Cisco ATA and 2611 Dial up network https://youtu.be/AEiYyMwW8gY?si=0YFCoYAxoXMg5d00
Dell Power connect 24 Port switch.

Top Shelf
Osborne DX2/66 VLB Dos 6.22/WFW 3.11 Osbone 486 DX2 66 VL-Bus (My 1st PC ever)
Crown 9510 POD 83, VLB Dos 6.22/WFW 3.11 I accidently got a TCS9510 486 VLB PC
5x86 133, Win95 Another 486 being built
Recent find 386 in tower with 286 badge. Future project.

On the floor I have a massive tower case which original had the P2B-DS motherboard but is currently empty.
Above that the S478, GF 6800 Ultra Win9x/XP build: P4P800 End of Win98 Support Build
On top is my Quad GTX590 WinXP/Win7 build: My main XP rig. LGA 775 Asus P5N-D, GTX590 SLI, SB X-Fi

Desk has 3 HP EliteDisplay 201's chosen for having VGA/DVI/DP inputs and a Dell 5:4 monitor. All 4 VGA inputs connected to a separate KVM.
DVI is often used as a 2nd screen on more modern computers.
DP used to be used for laptops but these need setting up again.

Also on the desk is my SC-55 (typically hooked up to the Osborne) and my Logitech Z5500 speakers.

To connect this many computers to the speakers I have a 4 port toslink switch, or each PC also has a standard audio cable from the back I can plug the speakers direct into.
This does means I loose true 5.1 surround sound but currently with 2 small children I'm actually using my headphones more at the moment.

The cabinets above the screens have all my CD's and above them some of my Big Box software. (I think the rest is still at my parents)

This looks really awesome. Well organized and no clutter. I am taking notes.