![[Photo: David]](images/david.jpg)
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David
pretending to be at work.
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![[Photo: Tip 29]](images/tip029.jpg)
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This shows my main Atari XL computing console. As you can see, the
computer
likes to read about itself (it's rather egotistical). |
![[Photo: Tip 30]](images/tip030.jpg)
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This shows the mess I have to contend with. Here are two ST disk
drawers doing what comes natural... Err... |
![[Photo: Tip 31]](images/tip031.jpg)
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Here we see the entire desk (almost). It's just two kitchen units put
at either end of the room with a kitchen worktop on top. What you
don't see is the uneven cut that splits the worktop in two when we
couldn't get
it around the banister at the top of the stairs. So out came my trusty
new saw! For video-gaming afficionados, there's a nice 1984 Vectrex
unit (working ever since I bought it 18 years ago) to the left where the
Mega 1 usually sits. That's been lent to my sister for her to do some
college work but she's just "inherited" my parents' old PC and printer so
I should be seeing the machine again soon. What you don't see to the
left of the Vectrex is an ST CD-ROM drive and a 500 MB ST hard drive. |
![[Photo: Tip 32]](images/tip032.jpg)
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This is what the inside of one of the kitchen units looks like. More ST
disks
than you can shake a disk at. There are also several more boxes in the landing
at the top of the stairs and in the bedroom! Anyone short on disks? |
![[Photo: Tip 33]](images/tip033.jpg)
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Note: Picture should be rotated by 90 degrees clockwise.
(Do you honestly think anyone can
tell what way up any of these are,
David?! - Ed) Here we see the wall
units on the other side of the room containing some 2600 systems and a few
games. There are many more games in the bedroom. |
![[Photo: Tip 34]](images/tip034.jpg)
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Under the desk is a CSS Black Box unit that was given to me, along with
a
hard drive and a couple of floppy drives. All for the 8-bit. Sadly,
it doesn't work. One day I'll get round to getting it fixed. |
![[Photo: Tip 35]](images/tip035.jpg)
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More Atari gear and a couple of Spectrums can be seen at the top of the
wall
unit. The Atari box contains an ST. Several have been lent out to make room! |
![[Photo: Tip 36]](images/tip036.jpg)
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Inside the other kitchen unit is even more gear! A couple of Jaguars,
8-bit
systems and 2600/7800 consoles. |
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This is the floor directly behind the chair. At least I assume there's
a floor. I'm too afraid to move them to find out. |
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Here is another close-up view of the main work area. Here you have a
few bits 'n' bobs including an opened XL, a couple of stripped Speccy PCBs
and... wait for it... a rare Issue One 16 KB Spectrum at the top-right corner complete with hand-drawn PCB. Sadly it hasn't
worked since
1983 when I beat it to death. Beneath all this are numerous ICs and other
bits that I managed to cadge off the likes of Maxim and National Semiconductor
for nowt. One day I'll use them for something. |