26 Apr
2014
26 Apr
'14
12:14 a.m.
Since others have been sharing their new digs, I thought I'd share mine.
I moved a couple of months ago to a much larger house with a
semi-finished (and dry) basement. (As you can tell from the photos, the
refinishing was done sometime in the 1970s :)). Previously I had about
200 square feet of space, now I have more like 900-1000. Not quite as
impressive as Guy's or Henk's, but I've managed to fit all my stuff in
with room for future expansion...
Just this week I got the last of the stuff out of my 10'x10' storage
unit and I've gotten everything approximately where I want it, modulo a
few boxes here and there. One thing I've discovered now that
everything's under one roof: I have way too many keyboards...
This link should work; let me know if you can't get to the album:
https://plus.google.com/photos/117997069161125071032/albums/600649153384065…
- Josh
26 Apr
26 Apr
4:36 a.m.
* Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> [140426 03:16]:
Since others have been sharing their new digs, I
thought I'd share mine.
I moved a couple of months ago to a much larger house with a
semi-finished (and dry) basement. (As you can tell from the photos, the
refinishing was done sometime in the 1970s :)). Previously I had about
200 square feet of space, now I have more like 900-1000. Not quite as
impressive as Guy's or Henk's, but I've managed to fit all my stuff in
with room for future expansion...
Just this week I got the last of the stuff out of my 10'x10' storage
unit and I've gotten everything approximately where I want it, modulo a
few boxes here and there. One thing I've discovered now that
everything's under one roof: I have way too many keyboards...
This link should work; let me know if you can't get to the album:
https://plus.google.com/photos/117997069161125071032/albums/600649153384065…
- Josh
Nice setup Josh!!! Where are is/your canine pal(s) in the pictures?
Todd
27 Apr
27 Apr
11:19 a.m.
On 4/26/2014 4:36 AM, Todd Goodman wrote:
* Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> [140426
03:16]:
Thanks! Our dog (Jasper) was upstairs at the time, but I'll see if I
can't put a picture or two up with him in it :).
Josh
Since others have been sharing their new digs, I
thought I'd share mine.
I moved a couple of months ago to a much larger house with a
semi-finished (and dry) basement. (As you can tell from the photos, the
refinishing was done sometime in the 1970s :)). Previously I had about
200 square feet of space, now I have more like 900-1000. Not quite as
impressive as Guy's or Henk's, but I've managed to fit all my stuff in
with room for future expansion...
Just this week I got the last of the stuff out of my 10'x10' storage
unit and I've gotten everything approximately where I want it, modulo a
few boxes here and there. One thing I've discovered now that
everything's under one roof: I have way too many keyboards...
This link should work; let me know if you can't get to the album:
https://plus.google.com/photos/117997069161125071032/albums/600649153384065…
- Josh
Nice setup Josh!!! Where are is/your canine pal(s) in the pictures?
Todd
7:07 a.m.
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:14:33AM -0700, Josh Dersch wrote:
This link should work; let me know if you can't
get to the album:
https://plus.google.com/photos/117997069161125071032/albums/600649153384065…
So many interesting machines. I recognize some. Would you
annotate the pictures so I can learn about the rest.
/P
11:16 a.m.
On 4/27/2014 7:07 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:14:33AM -0700, Josh Dersch
wrote:
Thanks! I went back and added a shelf-by-shelf rundown for the pictures,
let me know if you want more info :).
- Josh
This link should work; let me know if you
can't get to the album:
https://plus.google.com/photos/117997069161125071032/albums/600649153384065…
So
many interesting machines. I recognize some. Would you
annotate the pictures so I can learn about the rest.
/P
2:10 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:16:18AM -0700, Josh Dersch wrote:
Thanks! I went back and added a shelf-by-shelf rundown
for the
pictures, let me know if you want more info :).
Thank you. Lots of things I haven't seen before but quite a few I identified
correctly.
And wow! you have an Imlac!! does it work?
/P
4:40 p.m.
On 4/27/2014 2:10 PM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:16:18AM -0700, Josh Dersch
wrote:
I do! And it's getting closer to working. When I got it last year it
needed a ton of work (it's had a rough life). You can read about the
"restoration" starting here:
http://rottedbits.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-introduction-to-imlac-pds-1.html.
It's been an education -- I have zero EE background so I'm learning as
I'm going. I'm pretty good at the digital side of things, not so great
at analog stuff. But it's fun to learn.
Currently working on either a) finding a replacement core plane for the
Dataram boardset (very unlikely) or b) building a more modern
replacement from SRAM. I'm working on (b) but have been very
sidetracked by other things as of late :). I'm also still keeping an
eye out for a real Imlac display for this thing (also very unlikely).
I'll probably end up using an off-the-shelf X/Y display or an old vector
arcade monitor once I get to that point.
- Josh
Thanks! I went back and added a shelf-by-shelf
rundown for the
pictures, let me know if you want more info :).
Thank you. Lots of things I
haven't seen before but quite a few I identified
correctly.
And wow! you have an Imlac!! does it work?
/P
7:47 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks! I went back and added a shelf-by-shelf rundown
for the pictures, let
me know if you want more info :).
Great tour, Josh, and a nice collection of stuff. Lots of "red meat"
and very little chaff :)
I need to do a whole lot more cleaning up before I can offer the same
for my hoard. I've long thought that it would be fun to create some
kind of VR tour of the basement (and garage and storage and....) but I
don't really have any idea how. Anyone remember Quicktime VR in the
90s? Something like that.
Ran across this just now:
http://www.google.com/maps/about/contribute/photosphere
I've played with the panoramic photos on my Android phone before; some
of the ones I made in the back yard turned out well. Apparently you
can string them together into a sort of "DIY Street View." But it
looks like it relies on GPS location tags (of course, to string the
images together in the right places) which wouldn't really work out
for indoors and small maps.
Anyone have any experience creating such a thing? Who will be the
first to offer a walk-through tour of their stash?
- jht
9:43 a.m.
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
From: Josh Dersch
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 9:14 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Another new computer lab...
Since others have been sharing their new digs, I thought I'd share mine.
I moved a couple of months ago to a much larger house with a
semi-finished (and dry) basement. (As you can tell from the photos, the
refinishing was done sometime in the 1970s :)). Previously I had about
200 square feet of space, now I have more like 900-1000. Not quite as
impressive as Guy's or Henk's, but I've managed to fit all my stuff in
with room for future expansion...
Just this week I got the last of the stuff out of my 10'x10' storage
unit and I've gotten everything approximately where I want it, modulo a
few boxes here and there. One thing I've discovered now that
everything's under one roof: I have way too many keyboards...
This link should work; let me know if you can't get to the album:
https://plus.google.com/photos/117997069161125071032/albums/600649153384065…
- Josh
That looks very nice, and very "cosy". I bet you enjoy time spent there.
Just a warning ... you say "with room for expansion". Be careful with that!
Running out of space occurs in the "wink of an eye" (also the title of a
Star Trek episode, but that's something different :-) )
More pictures (close ups) would be nice. I like strolling through pix.
greetz,
- Henk
11:18 a.m.
On 4/27/2014 9:43 AM, Henk wrote:
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Josh Dersch
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 9:14 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Another new computer lab...
Since others have been sharing their new digs, I thought I'd share mine.
I moved a couple of months ago to a much larger house with a
semi-finished (and dry) basement. (As you can tell from the photos, the
refinishing was done sometime in the 1970s :)). Previously I had about
200 square feet of space, now I have more like 900-1000. Not quite as
impressive as Guy's or Henk's, but I've managed to fit all my stuff in
with room for future expansion...
Just this week I got the last of the stuff out of my 10'x10' storage
unit and I've gotten everything approximately where I want it, modulo a
few boxes here and there. One thing I've discovered now that
everything's under one roof: I have way too many keyboards...
This link should work; let me know if you can't get to the album:
https://plus.google.com/photos/117997069161125071032/albums/600649153384065…
- Josh
That looks very nice, and very "cosy". I bet you enjoy time spent there.
Just a warning ... you say "with room for expansion". Be careful with
that!
Running out of space occurs in the "wink of an eye" (also the title of a
Star Trek episode, but that's something different :-) )
Thanks! I'm liking the space so far, but of course I'll always want
more space... I'm trying to pace myself (and I'm also planning to do a
bit of spring cleaning over the next couple of months to free up a bit
of space :).
More pictures (close ups) would be nice. I like strolling through pix.
I'll see what I can do -- my "good" camera has been misplaced during the
move so all I have is my cell phone at the moment. Once I find it, I'll
take some closer pictures.
Thanks,
Josh
greetz,
- Henk
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