So, the desk is built. It took me most of the morning to shift the boxes in the spare room over to the other side of the spare room; pausing en route to extract a few random bits of desk ephemera. I now need to go down to the garage and extract one of the surge-protection extension leads so that I can actually power the desk top stuffs.
The stuff laid out is mostly for show only at the moment. The RiscPC’s keyboard has had keyboard storage death, and a few of the keys don’t work now. I also have yet to find the box that contains it’s wireless network adaptor (which should also be connected to the printer lurking under the desk).
The record deck is not (a) working or (b) connected to the phono input box. This is because the phono input box is also in an unknown box, somewhere in the room. However, as a desk it does appear to work. I’m typing this on my ergonomic keyboard which, despite needing a clean, is still working. Sadly the trackball appears to have largely died. I’m not sure why, if any bit was expected to die it’d’ve been the buttons which may have been accidentally pressed whilst in storage. But no, ironically it’s the actual trackball sensor which appears to have bitten the dust. So I can click but not move. It’s more upsetting because they’re fricking expensive compared to mice.
Anyhow, onwards to cable-finding. And I might go play in the garden for an hour, since it’s a pretty day and doing the desk has pretty much cost me all of it…
