Post your desktop.

[JBert]

Nice board, Compgeke, what is it?

Looks like a trackpoint keyboard made by Desko. Sadly, it's not on the wiki (hint hint), and the only thing I can find is this: Desko from McCarran Airport.

[Aleksander]

Does not look the same as the one Compgeke has.. :p

[Compgeke]

It is a Desko. Mine's a bit different than that in that it has the mouse entirely in the front piece, pad printed caps and black caps with a blue front mouse piece rather than grey.

I'll upload some pictures to the wiki whenever I get a new camera in the next few months or if I end up borrowing a school camera again.

[HaaTa]

It's one of the Deskos that Didjammatic was selling NIB. I used it for a few days, tooks some pics then put it back in a box for a few years

[tuxsavvy]

Apologies for poor camera quality, used camera phone and taken the photo at night time.

[mr_a500]

I got tired of standing for a while, so I'm back to the regular (Commodore brand) desk:

Desk.JPG

Here's what it looks like from the back:

Back.JPG

At the top, you can barely see the Mac SE (with orange ALPS M0116).

Viewed from another angle, you see the PowerMac G5 with AT Model F in the corner, along with a 2 disk SE, Classic 2, orange ALPS AEK with SGI keycaps.

Desk2.JPG

The pictures aren't great because of the bad lighting. (dark and snowing at the moment)

[mr_a500]

Keyboards in my above pictures:

IBM 3278 APL - beam spring
DEC VT100 - "stackpole"
Honeywell (Bud) keypad - hall effect (NOS)
Atari 800XL - vintage (metal switch case) ALPS (NOS)
TI-99/4A - vintage "T" ALPS
IBM 5155 - buckling spring
Apple M0116 - orange ALPS
IBM AT Model F
Apple M0115 (SGI keycaps) - orange ALPS
Japanese IBM (TRS-80 Model III keycaps) - vintage "T" ALPS (NOS)
Victor 9000 - Keytronic foam & foil
Kaypro II - Maxi switch (NOS)
Kaypro "New 2" - Maxi switch (NOS)
TRS-80 Model III (Japanese keycaps from IBM board) - vintage "T" ALPS

and MacBook Pro - boring rubber dome.

(other vintage keyboards and computers not pictured)

[nourathar]

wow.. some very nice ones there
I've noticed that the longer I stay on DT, the more my taste shifts to older boards:
first mechanical and current, then nineties, now around 1980...
where will this end ?

[mr_a500]

"Vintage" keyboards were "current" when I first became interested in computers. I lived through the changes. I experienced the mid-80's "beigening", the late 80's cheapening and then the 90's "rubber dome invasion from hell". Every change degraded what I originally liked. So I've only ever liked keyboards from the 70's and early 80's.

[nourathar]

When I got my first computer, the transition from 'beigening' to 'cheapening' had just started, I guess. I only recently realised that my first computer (an Atari ST2) must still have had a relatively decent keyboard, actually, and probably my second (an early Mac) too. And I remember using the occasional IBM board and terminals in various places.
But it has been downhill since, until not so long ago, and now I realize I'm mostly looking for seventies and early eighties boards and less interested in Cherry MX or even Alps...

and I really like the looks of that Victor board or that DEC board, even if they are probably not the best to type on ? (compared to beamspring that is..).
Can't wait to connect xwhatsit's converter, still waiting for the pcb's to arrive so that I can start soldering.

[mr_a500]

and I really like the looks of that Victor board or that DEC board, even if they are probably not the best to type on ? (compared to beamspring that is..)

The Victor is very smooth and light. I'd love to convert it someday. Sadly, the DEC is quite stiff and rough. It looks great, but typing is not so great. Still, I'd want that converted too just because I've always loved the VT100 look.

This guy made quite a nice little converter box:

[Compgeke]

Playing around with the XT and an InPort Mouse. Rolling carts make decent desks.

[Muirium]

That's not an XT.

THAT's an XT.

[collector of junk]

mr a500 your desktop spot-on .very jealous good photo's too

[mr_a500]

mr a500 your desktop spot-on .very jealous good photo's too

Thanks!

There are 3 keyboards there that I'm not yet able to use (will convert eventually), but the rest I use occasionally so it's not just display. I play with the Kaypros and B&W Macs once in a while. I've got another 800XL (with SD reader) connected to the TV downstairs, so the ALPS one is mainly to pick up and appreciate.

(photos previously posted in other thread)


In the basement, I've got my glorious accelerated Amiga 500:



...and beside it, attached to the same monitor is a Commodore 128 with SD card reader.

All the other computers and keyboards I no longer use are in the closet, for eventual sale. (but I'm not a "buy & sell" kind of guy, so I haven't gotten around to it)

[mr_a500]

Playing around with the XT and an InPort Mouse. Rolling carts make decent desks.

You're using the XT for IRC chat? That's interesting. I need to figure out what to do with my "portable" XT. (but all I can think of at the moment is using it for weight lifting exercises.)

[Compgeke]

Not that much of a fan of the layout though. If I ever want to use one I have 40 or so of 'em though.

You're using the XT for IRC chat? That's interesting. I need to figure out what to do with my "portable" XT. (but all I can think of at the moment is using it for weight lifting exercises.)

Try getting an ISA network card (or Xircom PE3 adapter) and running an FTP server or something. mTCP has an FTP server and who doesn't want an 8088 FTP server?

[Icarium]

I got tired of standing for a while, so I'm back to the regular (Commodore brand) desk:

Desk.JPG

Here's what it looks like from the back:

Back.JPG

At the top, you can barely see the Mac SE (with orange ALPS M0116).

Viewed from another angle, you see the PowerMac G5 with AT Model F in the corner, along with a 2 disk SE, Classic 2, orange ALPS AEK with SGI keycaps.

Desk2.JPG

The pictures aren't great because of the bad lighting. (dark and snowing at the moment)

7bit: Can we get those APL caps, plz?

[nourathar]

moved from 'opening a terminal' to 'switching on a terminal' !
( a Volker-Craig 4152 terminal from around 1980, vt52-compatible)

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[mr_a500]

Wow - Volker Craig! That's awesome. (Canadian too!)

I think you need to rearrange your desk though. You don't want that lovely Volker Craig keyboard slipping off the desk.

[6664]

^^

My Desktop from thailand.

[nourathar]

Wow - Volker Craig! That's awesome. (Canadian too!)

I think you need to rearrange your desk though. You don't want that lovely Volker Craig keyboard slipping off the desk.

yes, was super happy to find it, still waiting for the user's guide though: impossible to find anything on this particular model. Everything works, managed to connect it to my Linux box, but I think there are some settings I do not know how to access. Also the crt needs some adjusting.
And yes, I surely need to rearrange my desk: I need more space, ideally so that I can set up my vt100 too !

[Muirium]

Standing desks (or as the proles like to call them "chests of drawers") solve the multi desktop problem quite nicely. You can multi task by stepping over to your next console! Plus all those drawers really help absorb desk junk.

[nourathar]

A standing desk is a great idea, first time I saw them was at the beginning of this very thread, thanks for reminding. I'm thinking of moving my home working space elsewhere, and there I will give it a try for sure !

[phosphorglow]

Playing around with the XT and an InPort Mouse. Rolling carts make decent desks.

Ok. Based on the 360k full height floppy and the case, I want to say that this is a 5150 that had a full height MFM hard drive installed, and then the motherboard was replaced with a 5170 AT board...?

...or somehow you managed to convert AT protocol to XT?

DO I WIN A PRIZE!?!?!

Edit: Scratch that - I'm gonna go for 5160, not 5150.

Edit (again): Nevermind. I probably don't win a prize.

Just learned something new after some searching which tells me that the M can auto-sense and switch to XT protocol. I'll be a monkey's uncle. Neato.

[ne0phyte]

I got a barely used Logitech Cordless Trackman Wheel for 10€ yesterday and I thought it looked quite nice on my desk

Underwhelming picture quality as always

[Muirium]

I see that MIDI keyboard lingering in the background! I'm still after a nice weighted Roland, just the kind of thing to make an HHKB feel trivially affordable in comparison…

What's that you're working on in the foreground? It better have something to do with your 40%!

[ne0phyte]

What's that you're working on in the foreground? It better have something to do with your 40%!

I'll have to disappoint you

It's for a school project. We're implementing Tetris on Atmel uCs. Three of them: CPU, GPU and SPU connected through an I²C bus.
I'm working on the SPU which is basically a simple 8 bit synthesizer that'll play the Tetris melody and sound effects at 8 bit 8000hz
This is what a little test sounds like: http://ne0.cc/media/whoop.mp3
That's on Linux though, the actual sound on the Atmega is worse haha

[Muirium]

Not disappointed! As it's actually retro sweet. Whoop whoop whoop whoop.

[foxtrott]

office rebuilt ... that was a lot of work