Post the cool stuff you have in your workshop/man cave.

[ohaimark]

I was talking about Google a minute ago and it reminded me that I have a Google server lid. So I took an awful photo and put it here.

What interesting crap do you have?

[Findecanor]

I have a Linux PC. On that PC I have several free programs actually that are very capable of resizing a very large image down to something that is manageable and suitable for posting on the web.

[ohaimark]

Wow! Thank you for your extremely non-sarcastic and entirely non-passive aggressive reply!

It's not like the program I use limits the exported file size to approximately 800 kilobytes, even though it has a high resolution.

It's also unthinkable that Deskthority's attachment system fits the image into a thread sized window.

I most certainly won't take your kind suggestion in the future when I have more time. This image was posted on a whim before class, and I wasn't in a hurry to get to school (considering the complete lack of bad weather in Michigan during the winter).



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[Muirium]

I like the way this thread is going already. Keep it up!

[ohaimark]

I tried real hard to be polite, Mu. Really.

Edit: brownfont.

[Muirium]

A great way to do that is to close the browser instead of hitting Submit…

[ohaimark]

Just to be clear -- my previous two posts were dripping in sarcasm and sass, not true annoyance or hatred!

[Hak Foo]

* The works plate from a Canadian diesel locomotive (specifically a SD40-2 sold to the Canadian Pacific)

* A Commodore 128DCR underneath my main PC

* A SACD player (from my frequent trips to thrift shops looking for cool keyboards, I've expanded into stereo kit)

* Far too many volumes of the English adaptations of Japanese and Korean comics

[Crazy Canadian XXIV]

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Only thing of note is this old graphics card that I'm holding on to for the day that graphics cards stop coming with analog video output. Hopefully by then there'll be software that lets me offload video output to a card other than the one doing the actual rendering and processing.

[matt3o]

I have a Linux PC. On that PC I have several free programs actually that are very capable of resizing a very large image down to something that is manageable and suitable for posting on the web.

I actually appreciated the decent resolution image.

And this is my entry

[ohaimark]

* The works plate from a Canadian diesel locomotive (specifically a SD40-2 sold to the Canadian Pacific)

That's sweet, Foo. I was really into locomotives when I was younger, so that's a punch right in the childhood envy I carry for people like you.

I'm also glad someone wasn't put off by the image. >.< Tomorrow I'll toss up another photo of a cool thing... At about half the resolution. Still high, but not 6k x 4k.

[matt3o]

More office porn

[Spikebolt]

I have a Spectrum at work but it isn't mine. Not even sure it works, though I've been dying to take it home for a spin

[jrwil]

Here's my most recent project: A wifi payphone. It took about two weeks to repair/configure.

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I took my old Jeep (and my wife, who was patient enough to play along) to get this heavy thing from a picker who lives way out on the Tennessee/Alabama border. Tried to pick the side lock on it for two days before lugging it to a local locksmith shop. About five guys there couldn't do it. They eventually drilled it.

Opened it up and evicted a few ladybugs. Pretty sure it had been face-down in the dude's yard for a while. It's a "Protel/Quadrum/GTE" style payphone (coin return on the right side) versus a "Western Electric" style (left). Took out the circuit board and threw a bunch of parts at it (new board, cradle, hoookswitch, bell, handset [yellow — why not]). Connected the line to an OBI200 VOIP adapter (magical device), hooked that up to a wifi range extender and put an LED music stand light behind the "Phone" sign. With Google voice, calls ring to my cellphone and the payphone.

More to the forum's interest, I've got an original "Hunter S. Thompson red" Selectric I that types like a dream.

[002]

This seems like a nice place to share the pathetic fanboy Topre stuff that I've collected over the years

Re-purposed Surface Box to keep the goodies. Topre poster and custom wrist-rest.

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Desk calendars -- I think the first one of these I got in 2011. The back page shows other uses; as a miniature note board (I presume you would use whiteboard marker or something), or as a photo frame.

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Weird silicon stand doodads. Not sure if these are a popular thing in Japan or not. Not something I'd use personally.

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My coveted Topre Coldtop sticker. One of Topre's schticks is kitting out normal trucks into refrigerated ones. There's heaps of them on Yahoo Auctions Japan.

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Some very pretty Season's Greetings cards. Nothing makes me feel warm and fuzzy like a lovable corporation wishing me well!

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A Type Heaven stamped Pilot pen with erasable ink, and some keycaps and keychains.

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[derzemel]

This seems like a nice place to share the pathetic fanboy Topre stuff that I've collected over the years

Soo... do you actually work for Topre? Why not?

[002]

No I don't which makes it even sadder when you think about it

[ReleaseCandidate]

Regarding computers I still have some parts of my Origin 2000 left and the case of a Cobalt Qube (that is now a stand for Plants).
But I tend to sell or throw away stuff that I don't use any more.

[ramnes]

I tried real hard to be polite, Mu. Really.

Edit: brownfont.

Why the brownfont?

[ohaimark]

I wasn't trying to be polite -- I was aggressively sarcastic in response to what I saw as a grumpy, passive aggressive reply.

Bear in mind that I wasn't upset. There was simply no way I'd let such a snarky comment go unchallenged.

Here's the cool thing I promised ages ago -- a failed run of microchips:

[snuci]

Thumbs up to Matt3o, But if it was a TT... Been looking for a TT for a while.

I have a few cool items but this is what I have on my fireplace mantel.

Original Macintosh dealer sign with 1950s IBM 701 vacuum tube component

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What it looks like when lit up:

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What it looks like when lit up

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[002]

That is pretty cool but I was expecting that the nixies would light up too

[seebart]

I saw that original Macintosh dealer sign on your HP, very cool.

[snuci]

That is pretty cool but I was expecting that the nixies would light up too

I was considering putting LEDs behind the tubes (they aren't nixies because they have no numbers) but then there would be more wiring and I will not touch the Mac sign. I believe the Mac sign to be one-of-a kind because it has no paint on it where all other signs have the appropriately coloured paint in the grooves. Speculation is that it's either a prototype or a factory defect unit that made it out of the factory.

[002]

Oh I didn't know that about nixie tubes (need numbers) -- much before my time. I can understand why you chose not to change it too, especially if it's a one-of-a-kind thing as you are suggesting.

[seebart]

I inherited quite a bit of useless but interesting objects like this Astatic "Silver Eagle" microphone from the 1950's? Coolest part is the engraved reflective back with the eagle. The mic is heavy and very well built.

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[ohaimark]

That needs to be used by presidents, man. How much more 'Murican can a mic' get?

[snuci]

I gotta say, that's a snappy looking microphone even without the engraving. Very cool.

[seebart]

Yeah it's pretty official looking. Back in the day that's how they made stuff.

[berserkfan]

damn

in preparation for my moving house I just threw out a 1940s sewing machine and never took a photo of that.