OK. I’m home now. I can’t clearly demarcate where my work end any my personal stuff begins, but here are enough pictures to capture the organized chaos that is my office.
On the left/center of the room:
From left to right …
- Printer (Brother HL-L3270 CDW)
- Scanner (Epson Perfection 4870 photo)
- The next-over display/keyboard is the console for my Raspberry Pi (not visible in this picture) that managed my LAN’s DNS and DHCP, in addition to some fun stuff. It’s sitting on an old Technics cassette deck, which I had used to transfer lots of audio from tape to digital
- The display that’s lit up is the console for my Mac mini (2018). Its keyboard is on the keyboard drawer.
- That display is shared (via a KVM) with an older Micron PC (on the floor, to the left of the white trash can). It runs Linux and MS-DOS. Its keyboard is the one on the table in front of the display (with papers over it)
- Behind the display is a small wire shelf where the Raspberry Pi and the cable modem live. My various external hard drives also live there.
- Just to the right of that display, you can see the Mac, with its attached SuperDrive and a USB SSD
- Ignore the box of Costco snacking nuts
. But behind it is my home LAN router… - In the center, between the in-boxes and the cabinet, and behind more clutter, is a 16 port GigE network switch, which carries all the traffic for the room
And now the right side of the room…
- The tall beige tower with a rainbow-painted base. It’s a 486 PC running DOS. It doesn’t get turned on much these days.
- Next to that, on the floor is a Dell Precision T3400 running Linux. It serves some stuff for my home and I use it for some work.
- Above the table is that row of three displays. The left and right ones are monitors while the center is my work laptop.
- The left display usually extends the laptop’s desktop, but can also display the T3400’s console.
- The right display usually extends the laptop’s desktop, but can also display the 486’s console
- Next (mostly obscured) is a Mac SE. About as maxed-out as one can get: 4M RAM, 200M HDD, dual 1.44M floppies and 10M Ethernet
- Next is an Apple //c, with Apple’s color monitor
- Finally (with the keyboard on its side to make more desk space) is an Apple IIGS, with its RGB monitor. Partly obscured are its four floppy drives - 2 5.25" and 2 3.5" drives.
- Also notable, on the second bookshelf, toward the center is my old iBook G4 (in its box). Still works, but I’ve removed the battery for safety.
And then on the fourth wall is the closet containing office supplies and spare parts and a few more old computers, most of which still work:
Of note:
- PowerMac G4 (QuickSilver 2002) on the floor
- Mac Mini server 2011, left side, second shelf, in its box
- Shuttle XPC with an Athlon-64 (4th shelf, left-side). No longer powers on. Probably needs a re-cap on the motherboard, but it’s not worth the work for a generic PC of that age.