Computer Desk

[TrailMyx]

Don't make my dust off my Apple II+.  :p

[Artaxerxes]

My trade and paid job is an embedded design engineer.  So I've done lots of fast digital and analog hardware design.  When I started my own contracting company, I accumulated all these goodies.  I have a pretty large array of oscopes; ranging from the 70s analog Teks (sorry, square screen here...) to my fast digital TDS-3012.

My respect for you has just grown! But still... i can use these GHz scopes for free (phd in an experimental physics lab)!

[Masscre]

You dont have too because my Vic 20 or TI -99 or even my COCO III would be older.  

[TrailMyx]

My respect for you has just grown! But still... i can use these GHz scopes for free (phd in an experimental physics lab)!

Heh, thanks!  I love going into my contracts because they always have the nice cool test equipment.  There's a couple new Tek scopes out there just just make me drool.  However pricing them also makes me wonder if I can actually use them to live in.

Congrats on the PhD, hope that means you'll be haunting the UOAI project more. 

[Artaxerxes]

Heh, thanks!  I love going into my contracts because they always have the nice cool test equipment.  There's a couple new Tek scopes out there just just make me drool.  However pricing them also makes me wonder if I can actually use them to live in.

Yea, pricing seems terrible... but research projects here seem to count money in terms of millions of euros, so some 50k for a scope is never really a problem.  
I'm always shocked how little of this money goes to the people actually doing the research!

Congrats on the PhD, hope that means you'll be haunting the UOAI project more.  

Well... it might mean just the opposite... but for the next couple of weeks i'm sure i'll be spending a lot of time on UOAI.

[UOMaddog]

Well, the monitors have arrived, and in my anxiousness at getting everything up and running, I decided to rearrange some furniture and other stuff. I was able to get away without having to buy a desk, nor build one (though I did go to Home Depot and price out some Melamine boards...would have cost me about $75 for all the materials, and lots of time!) The only things lacking in this current setup are that my monitors are not quite as high as I'd like them to be (my center monitor cannot adjust height wise, so I'd have to build a shelf-type base for it, the ones on either side can go up about 6" or so. I've embedded some pics so you can all see. If I have time (probably the next chunk of time I have will be fall break or Christmas LOL) I may build a custom desk, but for now, this will have to do!

ENJOY!!






You can check out all the pics of my system at: http://sites.google.com/site/ultimaonlinesite/new-computer

[cgeorgemo]

I had a 8' long Slide Rule I found under the stage at my old school. I asked the principal if I could have it one morning after a staff meeting and he was happy to get rid of it. It was used as an example by having it hang up on the wall at the front of the classroom while they practiced with their own at a desk.
Unfortunately it burned up along with everything else in my mom's house.
Along with my TRS-80

[Masscre]

Ah my old TRS-80.  I have no idea what happened to it? But i remember programming it in machine language.  Boy the good ol days.  Anyone remember the coleco vision, Intelivision, CoCo, TRS-80, Apple II,II+,IIc,IIe, and the best of all IIgs, Vic20, commodore 64, 128, Amiga 500 or 2000?

[UOMaddog]

I remember the good old Commodore64 that my grandfather owned. We used to have an Apple II as well.

[Masscre]

I remember the good old Commodore64 that my grandfather owned. We used to have an Apple II as well.

Ok that comment made me feel even older !!

[Traegon]

Quote from: UOMaddog on Today at 10:46:28 AM
I remember the good old Commodore64 that my grandfather owned. We used to have an Apple II as well.

Ok that comment made me feel even older !!   

WHY am I getting a craving to program in LOGO.  Help!! 

I was feeling at the bottom of the heap when I looked over at my shelf and saw my C64 w/tape drive, 1541, and 300 baud modem, chewed up joysticks from my Atari 2600 attached until I saw the VIC-20 and Apple ][ comments.  I was relieved, almost.  PRESS PLAY ON TAPE holds a special place in my heart.

*sigh*  I'm suddenly missing playing Zork, the ORIGINAL Ultima series', and Archon (not to mention Elite, and a few other favs).

[Masscre]

Speaking of *press play on tape*

You think that joystick looks a little chewed up 

[Toptwo]

woot!

The girls were nice...but them old computers were SWEET!!! 

Arrr!