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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Sabre on July 15, 2002, 12:22:52 AM
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Call sign and shark's mouth. Yankee says I'm cleared in hot to land this puppy at the con... see you goons there :).
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First class accommodations.
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With plenty of leg room...and the all important cup holder.
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I like the big-sized cup holder ;) .
But how can you dare to put Compaq stuff into such a jewel??
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Originally posted by deSelys
I like the big-sized cup holder ;) .
But how can you dare to put Compaq stuff into such a jewel??
Rest assured, deSelys, it's just a place holder until I get a few bills paid off;).
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Interesting design, but what's the number pad to the right of the keyboard?
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headset telephone would be my guess.
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mp3 player
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Headset phone. A lot of Buccaneers live locally, so we often set up a round-robin voice net using three-way calling for static-free comms. Plus, I don't have to get out of my chair to answer the phone. Now if I could just talk my wife into a small refrigerator to place right beside this thing, I'd never have to get up.
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hey, you guys that have setups like this...i notice the keyboard in front at an angle..how difficult is it to type at such an extreme angle? are there any probs?
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Originally posted by Sabre
Rest assured, deSelys, it's just a place holder until I get a few bills paid off;).
Even so... I'd have used photoshop or something to blank out the whole tower and hide it.
Compaq sucks (I speak from experience)
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It's missing provisions for relieving yourself without getting up!
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You really need to get a set of surround speakers for that thing. Put the subwoofer behind your seat and FEEL it. ;) Not to mention positional sounds are cool. :)
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wtg Sabre :)
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Originally posted by Innominate
It's missing provisions for relieving yourself without getting up!
How do you know it doesn't have such provisions:D.
You really need to get a set of surround speakers for that thing. Put the subwoofer behind your seat and FEEL it. Not to mention positional sounds are cool.
Don't have surround-sound support available. However, if you look carefully, there is a subwoofer behind and under the seat, set in at an angle to allow easy access to the volume control. Feel the power!
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Is that your bed with the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs blanket? :)
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Originally posted by hawk220
hey, you guys that have setups like this...i notice the keyboard in front at an angle..how difficult is it to type at such an extreme angle? are there any probs?
Actually, I set mine up so I can take the keyboard out and lay it on my lap for typing, etc. However, I've found typing in this position is quite comfortable. Notice, I havr a palm rest underneath my keyboard, and it is slightly angled, so it's not completely vertical.
I managed to "Borrow" a keyboard holder from my office, but it's mounting under the monitor was too cumbersome, and really ate into my leg rooms.
So, in answering your question, I would not Perma-mount the keyboard as show, but I've have no problems doing E-bay, etc so far.
(http://us.f124.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter/DSCF0001.JPG?box=Inbox&MsgId=8836_8061_818_1888_181148_0_53858&bodyPart=2&filename=DSCF0001.JPG&YY=91334&order=down&sort=date&pos=0)
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Originally posted by SUPERFLY
Is that your bed with the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs blanket? :)
LOL! Actually, even after being in our new house for four months there's still stuff stacked in the corners that we haven't put away. My mother-in-law made that quilt for my daughters many years ago. As this is in the basement, my wife doesn't get to worked up about the clutter. She especially doesn't give me any grief about the Mark I, though she enjoys telling other people about my obsessive behavior. Of course, she has an entire room dedicated to sewing (11 ft x 17 ft, not counting the 11x4 walk-in closet). On top of that, she has a queen-size quilt on a wooden rack taking up the entire dining room, where she and her quilting buddies work on it. So she can't really give me too hard a time about it.
In answer to the keyboard ergonomic question I, like Muckmaw, pull the keyboard into my lap when doing any serious typing. The AH voice program has cut down considerably on the amount of typing I do while flying, so it's not a big consideration. The KB is resting on a 1.5 inch deep shelf, just as the phone keypad is; neither are permentantly attached to the "instrument panel." These two wooden ledges are the only things attached with screws; everything else is tabs and slots.
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do all you guys that build cockpits have cougars? lol
was that your own design or the 1 from that website that was posted a while back that had plans?
how comfortable is that seat.. and what did you make it from?
is that your only pc or do you have others in the house? (as soon as my server is up this becomes a gaming PC only :D)
i know alot of questions :D
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Where did ya put the relief tube? :D
Nice job Sabre
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Yes, before you can build this seat, you must get permission from Thrustmaster, Inc. :D
This is my only working Computer, so the family has to get used to it. It is MY computer after all. They're just squatters!
Anyway, the seat is very comfortable, inclined at a lovely 30 degrees. Mines made from plywood, Foam Rubber, and a leather-wannabe seat cover.
Please note, if you live in a warmer climate, leather seat covers cause cranky-ass after severa;l hours of play. But it cleans more easily than a fabric cover, where you cheeks will leave prints for hours.
Think about that.....:)
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How does the seat feel when you play naked?
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
How does the seat feel when you play naked?
Um...you must've missed it....see above. :D
"...leather seat covers cause cranky-ass..."
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Originally posted by JB73
do all you guys that build cockpits have cougars? lol
was that your own design or the 1 from that website that was posted a while back that had plans?
how comfortable is that seat.. and what did you make it from?
is that your only pc or do you have others in the house? (as soon as my server is up this becomes a gaming PC only :D)
i know alot of questions :D
For the price of the Cougar, they ought to throw in the seat! When I read about how heavy the Cougar is, I know my old broken down office chair (which had joystick mounts grafted on) would never do. So when my Cougar was put on order, I was determined to provide it with home befitting it's royal heritage. And yes, this is the one from the following website:
http://www.62ndfightingfalcons.asn.au/62ndff/projects/projects.htm
My seatback is adjustable to various angles using a single wing-nut, just visible in the pics, placed through the "horisontal stabilizer." This was my own modification from the original design. The seat is foam rubber (4-inch thick for seat bottom, 2-inch thick for seat back) covered in a green suede-like material, which is quite comfortable while flying "in the buff.";)
This is my only PC at the moment. The kids have adapted just fine to this new "office furniture" (my description of what I was up to when my wife asked "What's all this wood for?"). A clever bit of subtrafuge to hide my true intent until it was too late. Muahahahahaha... Sorry...don't know where that came from.:D