I picked Walnut because I felt it would blend in very well with the cabinetry in my office which are made from Clear Alder and stained Coffee Brown. Making the Retro Computer Display Standįirst things first I ran to my local lumber yard and purchased some nice 4/4 Walnut (roughly 5 inch X 8 foot). This will keep all of the display stands looking uniform as I make more of them in the future to hold additional retro computers. I designed the logo box to be the same height on all of the stands, but the width is unique for the logo of the computer it is designed for. The date box on the left, and a logo box on the right. To make this happen I landed on using the CNC to make two inlay boxes on both of the retro computer display stands. One to show the logo of the computer, and one to show the year it first entered manufacturing. My stands would need two plates or inlay-ed boxes on them.
Think about items on display in a museum! They always have some interesting plaques attached or some logos on them, along with dates. The second thing the retro computer display stand needs to have is some visible information about the unit on it. This will make the computer much more visually appealing and lend it to more likely being a conversation starter. That means that the computer needs to be tilted forward in such a way that makes the keyboard and logos visible for all to see. In fact, even if someone saw it they might not recognize it for what it is. A Commodore 64 sitting flat on a bookshelf 6 feet off the ground might not even be discernible as to what it is. The first was that I wanted to be able to see the computers in all of their glory, not just from the side view. However, I had some specific goals that needed to be met, regardless of how decorative they were. When I started out with my design for the retro computer display stand, I wanted to make something somewhat decorative but not over the top. In fact, I still have a Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Apple IIe, Macintosh Plus, and many of their peripherals such as disk drives (Commodore 1571, Dataset, etc)! So it’s time to get these out of the attic and closet and put them on display for all to see! Watch the Retro Computer Display Stand Videoĭesigning the Retro Computer Display Stand It’s probably not hard for you to understand that these retro computers hold a special place in my heart! So much so that I still own, many of my childhood computers, stored away in the closet and the attic.
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I ran a local BBS system where people could log in and download files from me, and I wrote some school reports and printed them out in a day and age where most people were still using typewriters. In fact, I even wrote my first assembler program on the Commodore 64. I played video games on these, and wrote my very first Basic programs. These computers were a big part of my childhood memories. About a year later my parents bought us a Commodore disk drive. When I was a kid my very first computer was a Commodore VIC-20.
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