Another messy workspace thread

[jackinnj]

My wife pointed out that my prototyping board was sitting atop two spiral notebooks, a PIC microcontroller handbook and one maintenance manual. I now keep the soldering iron on the floor with the cord at a handy distance so that I can reel it up when necessity beckons -- fwiw, the pre Carly PC without any internet access (meaning no Adobe gremlins) runs like a spooked nun:

[Iain McNeill]

Wow - you can see every instrument. And even get to the component bins on the lower pleistoscene era layer. This isn't natural. This is between jobs right?

Is that an Audio Precision I see there, you lucky dog.

Thats a lot of nice HP gear you got.

BTW, my test bench PC has also never seen the internet and it still boots up in 15 seconds unlike my "internet-ho" which although it runs at twice the MIPs now takes almost 3 mins to boot.