wingsley
10-23-2005, 04:35 PM
After my grandmother passed away, my family was left to figure out what to do with her belongings. I wound up inheriting two pieces of furniture: a La-Z-Boy recliner and an old, wooden table-desk.
The desk is small, but might be just large enough to at least temporarily accommodate my computer, Epson scanner, external FireWire hard disk and a few other things. I call it a table desk because it looks, for the most part, like a table. There are four round wooden legs supporting it and on top there is a thick wooden table-like surface. Right legs don't get all the way to the table surface because they dead-end in a box-like structure housed flush underneath the table surface. The box itself houses a pull-out drawer. It is very modest but also old enough that it can't be like any of the cheap, foreign-made crap you would see today. Grannie had to have it at least as long as I've been around, probably quite a bit longer.
I recall that places like OfficeMax sell add-on keyboard trays that you could attach to traditional, pre-computer-era desks and tables. I attached a picture to this message taken April 2, 2005. That day, there was a meeting hosted by the Marienville District Ranger, then Leon Blashock, to discuss recreational trails issues on the Allegheny National Forest. The new Ranger Station near Marienville had recently opened and Leon took those interested on a tour. He showed us the new office cubicles. In the image, Leon sits in one of the cubicles used by white-collar Forest Service personnel. Behind Leon's left hand is a computer setup. The Forest Service personnel using this station leaves a Dell laptop docked to a monitor, with a full-sized keyboard concealed on a roll-out drawer-tray below. Attached to the side of the tray is another tray for a mouse; the tray itself can be swung back to be out of the way.
I was wondering where those kinds of trays can be found. Are they available for the consumer market? What kind of cost? I believe Leon said the office cubicles at the Ranger Station were constructed out of all-federally-made kits, with at least some of the components fabricated by federal prison labor. I would like to investigate what it would take to apply the kind of setup next to Leon's hand to Grannie's desk. Any clues?
The desk is small, but might be just large enough to at least temporarily accommodate my computer, Epson scanner, external FireWire hard disk and a few other things. I call it a table desk because it looks, for the most part, like a table. There are four round wooden legs supporting it and on top there is a thick wooden table-like surface. Right legs don't get all the way to the table surface because they dead-end in a box-like structure housed flush underneath the table surface. The box itself houses a pull-out drawer. It is very modest but also old enough that it can't be like any of the cheap, foreign-made crap you would see today. Grannie had to have it at least as long as I've been around, probably quite a bit longer.
I recall that places like OfficeMax sell add-on keyboard trays that you could attach to traditional, pre-computer-era desks and tables. I attached a picture to this message taken April 2, 2005. That day, there was a meeting hosted by the Marienville District Ranger, then Leon Blashock, to discuss recreational trails issues on the Allegheny National Forest. The new Ranger Station near Marienville had recently opened and Leon took those interested on a tour. He showed us the new office cubicles. In the image, Leon sits in one of the cubicles used by white-collar Forest Service personnel. Behind Leon's left hand is a computer setup. The Forest Service personnel using this station leaves a Dell laptop docked to a monitor, with a full-sized keyboard concealed on a roll-out drawer-tray below. Attached to the side of the tray is another tray for a mouse; the tray itself can be swung back to be out of the way.
I was wondering where those kinds of trays can be found. Are they available for the consumer market? What kind of cost? I believe Leon said the office cubicles at the Ranger Station were constructed out of all-federally-made kits, with at least some of the components fabricated by federal prison labor. I would like to investigate what it would take to apply the kind of setup next to Leon's hand to Grannie's desk. Any clues?