MySpace wrote:

Here's my computing area. Sorry about the mess, it's usually really tidy.

Cool setup! That's a happy place if ever I saw one 😎

in the other corner he has a red phone booth

mrau wrote:

in the other corner he has a red phone booth

That made me laugh!
But with the old clock, phones and all that is one seriously cool room!

Thanks all! 😀

Haha, that yellow mobile by the printer is a Nokia 5110, right?

henryVK wrote:

Haha, that yellow mobile by the printer is a Nokia 5110, right?

Yep, it's my everyday phone. In the past I used the 7110 until it broke down, so now I use the 5110 til I will find another 7110 elsewhere. It has a new battery too.

MySpace wrote:

henryVK wrote:

Haha, that yellow mobile by the printer is a Nokia 5110, right?

Yep, it's my everyday phone. In the past I used the 7110 until it broke down, so now I use the 5110 til I will find another 7110 elsewhere. It has a new battery too.

Cheers, I had a 7110 for ages!

MySpace wrote:

henryVK wrote:

Haha, that yellow mobile by the printer is a Nokia 5110, right?

Yep, it's my everyday phone. In the past I used the 7110 until it broke down, so now I use the 5110 til I will find another 7110 elsewhere. It has a new battery too.

It also doubles as a personal anti-mugging device. Like a sock full of quarters, but more discrete (and more durable).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l1EbYYXdDw

Scored 3 matching Dell screens from work, so can now have a 3 screen setup on my "almost main" PC. Also managed to get most PC's to have a 2nd screen if supported.

On the desk
DX2-66 Connected to 4 port KVM on middle screen
Osbone 486 DX2 66 VL-Bus (My 1st PC ever)

POD 83 Connected to 8 port KVM on Right screen"
Another 486 being built

P4 Win98/XP build Connected to Connected to 8 port KVM on right screen + DVI direct to middle screen
P4P800 End of Win98 Support Build

Along the floor
Duel P3 600 connected to 4 port KVM on middle screen
Asus P2B-DS Build

P5N Connected to 4 port KVM on middle screen, DVI direct to left screen and DVI direct to Right screen

ProLiant 1600 Duel P3 600 connected to 8 port KVM on right screen
Proliant 1600 Barn (well shop office) Find

Slot A Athlon 650 connected to the 8 port KVM on right screen

And "the stack"
Mac G4 MDD Connected to 8 port KVM on right screen and USB to Ps2 connector
Got myself a Mac G4 -Help!

Dell P3 1Ghz Connected to 4 port KVM on middle screen and 2nd screen on 8 port KVM
Dell makes surprisingly good retro PC's

Dell T5500 Duel Xeon 5504 2.00GHZ Connected to 8 port KVM on right screen
Win7 Daily driver

Mrs Mac and thunderbolt screen on her boring desk 😀

My quickly growing shelf of retro things, off to the side of my main desk. Need to get a more proper desk surface for the mouse and keyboard, but this is at least usable right now.

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I replaced my desk / Bookcase thing. Old set up.

New set up:

Not shown - a cupboard full of old PCs.

Recently moved into my first studio apartment. Most of my collection is in storage at my parents' house, but I have set aside a little hobby corner in my walk-in closet. Just finished getting this set up:

My Pentium is on the floor to the left, but I still have to figure out a KVM solution to switch between it and the 386.

this is my little corner in the garage

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this is my little corner in the garage

Packard Bell! I approve.

I keep thinking I'm going to finish my desk but I never do, so here's a quicky of my actual desk (it's not very retro, but I work on retro stuff here and the rolling cart that sits to my left hand has power and my soldering kit):

Yes, it's RGB lighting, as you might detect from the remote on the right. The desk will eventually be recovered with dry-erase material (I have the roll I just have to do it, been a rough winter and summer). It'a basically a kitchen table, two black steel wire shelves on either side, filled with computers and other gear, which I will get a pic of when I get the cables organized. There's a 2x6 mounted with rifle scope rings (seriously, they're 1" uprights on the shelves, used 1" rifle scope rings) to the shelves at the back and monitor mounts attached to that.

I built the AMD main machine, the monitor on the upper left is on my file server which is on the left lower shelf, and the desktop on the left is a Lenovo i5 all-in-one with appropriate onscreen plumage.

Right now it's covered in hard drives, usb sticks, notepads, a multimeter, an open Zeos 386 power supply, a couple of Mac DB-15 to HD-15 adapters, a bottle of militec lubricant, a can of Deoxit, a Matrox Millenium that failed initial tests, and a shift knob from a Mazda RX-8.

Sorry that list kind of got away from me.

Oh, and the file server, which is really just a cheapo homebuilt with a lot of drives, and there's a Drobo on it but I doubt I'll keep that (like kittens, Drobos should alway come in pairs):

And here's the Zeos because I mentioned it (finally, some retro content!):

have y'all forgotten about skeletor?

CapnCrunch53 wrote:

Recently moved into my first studio apartment. Most of my collection is in storage at my parents' house, but I have set aside a little hobby corner in my walk-in closet. Just finished getting this set up:

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My Pentium is on the floor to the left, but I still have to figure out a KVM solution to switch between it and the 386.

Looks great - would love to have a little corner like this for an old machine. Nice that you found a desk deep enough to let you have enough space for the keyboard.

Current setup.

A few posts up is my picture of my new desk, but it still didn't allow a proper retro corner! So I finally got another desk so I have enough room for retroing 😀

Now I can finally use my CRT and speakers!