21 Aug
2001
21 Aug
'01
2:39 p.m.
James Rice <jrice(a)texoma.net> said:
Does anyone else keep their collection set up and
functioning?
Partially :-( I have room for a single rack, a small workbench to fix
stuff, a small workbench to build stuff, and a few tables for the computer
of the week, which rotates often. I also have some space in the garage to
smoke test new stuff, and organize/clean it before it enters the house.
Does your SO understand?
Partially :-) See below
I've told my wife she is kind of lucky. At least I
don't collect
mainframes.
HEY! That's MY excuse! I always claim she's lucky I don't need 3-phase
power and permanent air conditioning to run my stuff. She just shrugs,
smiles, and walks away...
I just moved into a new house a few months ago, and I now have a finished
basement to set some stuff up. I also have been granted permission to the
loft above the 2-car garage. Now all I have to do is run power, and make a
few windows, and I'm golden :-) Right now it's storage for the collection
that doesn't fit in the basement. Once I get it fixed up, it'll be a neat
space...
Rich B.
21 Aug
21 Aug
3:19 p.m.
HEY! That's MY excuse! I always claim she's
lucky I don't need 3-phase
power and permanent air conditioning to run my stuff. She just shrugs,
smiles, and walks away...
After a year of "discussing" the issue I was allowed to add a window
unit to my computer room. Before I would have to set the upstairs
air conditioner to 68 to keep the computer room comfortable, but the
rest of the upstairs would get too cold for my wife (separate units
for upstairs and downstairs). Since getting the window unit we can
set the main upstairs air conditioner to whatever makes her happy.
After a couple of months with the window unit she made a remark that
she wished she'd let me get the unit when we first moved in to the
house.
I just moved into a new house a few months ago, and I
now have a finished
basement to set some stuff up. I also have been granted permission to the
loft above the 2-car garage. Now all I have to do is run power, and make a
few windows, and I'm golden :-) Right now it's storage for the collection
that doesn't fit in the basement. Once I get it fixed up, it'll be a neat
space...
In the Dallas area most houses don't have basements (too expensive to dig
out a basement from the rock). I wish I did. I'm contemplating buying an
outdoor building to put in the back yard. I figure if I run power to it
and put in fairly good insulation it would make a great addition for some
of the bigger stuff.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
School Zones: Man's attempt to thwart natural selection.
6:33 p.m.
I should go the window unit route. I don't thnik Ronda would give m any
flak and I've got plenty of power. One windows is right above the
breaker panel in the garage, same outside wall. It would be a cinch to
fish another circuit up there if it became necessary.
Eric Dittman wrote:
After a year of "discussing" the issue I was allowed to add a window
unit to my computer room. Before I would have to set the upstairs
air conditioner to 68 to keep the computer room comfortable, but the
rest of the upstairs would get too cold for my wife (separate units
for upstairs and downstairs). Since getting the window unit we can
set the main upstairs air conditioner to whatever makes her happy.
After a couple of months with the window unit she made a remark that
she wished she'd let me get the unit when we first moved in to the
house.
7:20 p.m.
People keep writing that they have, "plenty of power." Define plenty.
Peace... Sridhar
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, James Rice wrote:
I should go the window unit route. I don't thnik
Ronda would give m any
flak and I've got plenty of power. One windows is right above the
breaker panel in the garage, same outside wall. It would be a cinch to
fish another circuit up there if it became necessary.
4:32 p.m.
Texas houses don't have basements. When we built our house two years
ago, I pre cabled the office. There are six 20 AMP circuits in the room
and I have 24 10/100 ethernet jacks along the three walls. The fourth
wall is the wet bar with refrigerator and the server closet for the
servers, hubs, ISDN routers and in November, the DSL router/modem.
Makes it convenient.
Rich Beaudry wrote:
I just moved into a new house a few months ago, and I
now have a finished
basement to set some stuff up. I also have been granted permission to the
loft above the 2-car garage. Now all I have to do is run power, and make a
few windows, and I'm golden :-) Right now it's storage for the collection
that doesn't fit in the basement. Once I get it fixed up, it'll be a neat
space...
Rich B.
23 Aug
23 Aug
2:10 p.m.
James Rice skrev:
Texas houses don't have basements. When we built
our house two years
ago, I pre cabled the office. There are six 20 AMP circuits in the room
and I have 24 10/100 ethernet jacks along the three walls. The fourth
wall is the wet bar with refrigerator and the server closet for the
servers, hubs, ISDN routers and in November, the DSL router/modem.
Makes it convenient.
I live in a 17 m? student room with a total of four unearthed power outlets.
My collectio neats up so much space, both in and outside of my room, that the
only place to stand is the matress I sleep on. Sad, isn't it?
I have a stack of desktop boxes taller than I, and three multisync monitors
and a terminal to connect them to, which works about as well as a workstation
switch. Anything with a composite or RF output gets to sit in my lap while
it's connected to my video and Philips CM8833.
How I miss my two-roomer... =/
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
It's amazing how many useful pieces of equipment are disguised as domestic
appliances: the machine for cleaning keyboard keycaps and shell cases does an
excellent job of washing clothes, while the tumbling machine for drying them
off also works for socks and shirts. The device in the kitchen for baking
small spray-painted articles can be used for pizza and muffins. And so on...
Pete Turnbull
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