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Quote: Originally Posted by barythrin Mr. Amiga, are those different areas of the house I take it or are they all in a dedicated work space? The pictures are all of the same room (appropriately named "The Computer Room"). I was trying to keep all my computers in that one room, but they have started spreading around the house (...as if by magic ). I don't like to stack my computers away, so the main goal was to set them...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr.Amiga500 I don't like to stack my computers away, so the main goal was to set them up, ready to run. I now have them set up so that I can reach the keyboards of 14 different computers without really moving my chair. (you'd think somebody that lazy would be really fat, but I'm not... yet) The tricky part is thinking of actual uses for some of these computers. I've found that as long as...

It would be nice if I could get it all running before I really consier keeping or selling it. One thing I can do over the winter however is find out if there was any to convert all these terminal keyboards to work with newer hardware. It would be nice to have something other than this ugly dell keyboard working with my linux box. For now however the majority sits in storage until I can get a place with a lot more space. Honestly, if I had more...

Very neat collection Mr. Amiga and wthorbjo Thanks for all the pictures. Mr. Amiga, are those different areas of the house I take it or are they all in a dedicated work space? I'm still working on my setup to get it something more than piles of stuff and I'll post some pics finally. But it's a very slow project where I build something, move a few things then get in a little more to build something else for now. I think I have a...

Wow, that is indeed an impressive Holiday Haul. Those back-breaking, cram-your-car-to-the-roof hauls are the best kind. The SGI's make for a nice holiday setting with the Christmas cards Happy Holidays

That's funny, a co-worker of mine recently said pretty much the same thing. He suggested a hot line to the White House though.

If you don't feel like keeping that Apple HD SC shown in the first pic, I'd love to have take it off your hands for you. (I have the floppy-connector "HD20", but it has a dead drive inside; and I'd prefer to have the SCSI model, anyway, I have plenty of spare SCSI drives to throw in.)

Quote: Originally Posted by Raven Ah, yes I think you're right. I suppose the lighting and my imagination made it look much prettier at first glance. xD Yup, it's my Esselte 100... And it's pretty enough in any light!

Very nice haul! -Matt

Quote: Originally Posted by TomFCS Pics of the construction process along the way. ----> http://www.welook4things.com/constru...bum/index.html Pics of some of the electrical stuff. ----> http://www.welook4things.com/electri...bum/index.html Shouldn't your phone be red? All Super Hero lairs have a red phone so the Chief can call!