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JezC wrote: Mon Aug 16, 2021 10:58 am
rubber_jonnie wrote: Mon Aug 16, 2021 9:20 am Good luck with the range!
Thanks - now showing as due to be delivered between 11:00 & 12:00 (currently about 15 miles away making a delivery in Scarborough)...

After more than 2 months without an oven, we'll all be glad to have the new one working!

Good luck with the flat pack & hope your wife forgives you for her unexpected alarm call at some point! ;)
Hope the delivery goes smoothly being a large item (I assume as it's a range). Not sure we'd manage for 2 months without an oven!

I think I'm forgiven as the remainder of our lounge furniture arrived and I was on hand for that! Plus I will unpack that at lunchtime and it isn't flatpack so that will be done right away :)
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Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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Hope the delivery goes smoothly being a large item (I assume as it's a range). Not sure we'd manage for 2 months without an oven!

I think I'm forgiven as the remainder of our lounge furniture arrived and I was on hand for that! Plus I will unpack that at lunchtime and it isn't flatpack so that will be done right away :)
Delivered and now installed :D

Yes, definitely a two person lift.

Good planning... then you get the chance to build your furniture and populate it with the requisite retro hardware ;)
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JezC wrote: Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:27 pm
Hope the delivery goes smoothly being a large item (I assume as it's a range). Not sure we'd manage for 2 months without an oven!

I think I'm forgiven as the remainder of our lounge furniture arrived and I was on hand for that! Plus I will unpack that at lunchtime and it isn't flatpack so that will be done right away :)
Delivered and now installed :D

Yes, definitely a two person lift.

Good planning... then you get the chance to build your furniture and populate it with the requisite retro hardware ;)
Spelndid!

Unfortunately the non-flat pack furniture was for the lounge, not my retro space, so I still have to assemble that, only 3 desks though.
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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Workshop is coming along nicely as well as the retro area. Still work to do and I have a drawer unit coming to replace the 2 I currently have that are a bit in the way.

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Very happy with the progress though :)

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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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Dawn has the same desk :lol:
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exxos wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 1:17 pm Dawn has the same desk :lol:
They're good desks :) Dawn clearly has taste.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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rubber_jonnie wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 1:24 pm They're good desks :) Dawn clearly has taste.
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@rubber_jonnie That 'skeleton' Mega kbd actually looks like it belongs amidst the rest of your setup!

All looking most impressive. We might soon start to see a competition between you, TF and others for the most popular retro lab...
Sadly I have no chance of getting anywhere near your setups.
:(
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JezC wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 1:44 pm @rubber_jonnie That 'skeleton' Mega kbd actually looks like it belongs amidst the rest of your setup!

All looking most impressive. We might soon start to see a competition between you, TF and others for the most popular retro lab...
Sadly I have no chance of getting anywhere near your setups.
:(
Yeah, the Mega KBD looks really kind of cool, and I am hating repairing the case! I also need to find a UK keycap set in my stash as it's an azerty layout

My lab/workshop has been a long time coming, I'm pretty happy with it :)
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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exxos wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 1:32 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 1:24 pm They're good desks :) Dawn clearly has taste.

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And it has a cat!!

What more do you want.
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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