@fozztexx I had the computer on a coffee table

@fozztexx I kept the computer on a stool in front of the living room TV, or sometimes on the room's table.

@fozztexx Coffee table for us. Had to set it up every time we wanted to use it, then pack it away when we were done. I shudder to think how close to the screen we used to sit, and those were 1980s CRTs to boot. :-/

@fozztexx Floor, right in front of the TV.

@fozztexx My Dad used some melamine offcuts to make me a pedestal, big enough for my ZX Spectrum & cassette player to sit side-by-side. I still used it, years later, as it was just the right size for my Amiga A500.

@fozztexx It all started with a foldable rolling cart.

@fozztexx my grandmother's serving trolley that we acquired. It was the perfect height for my C64 and tape deck, with the power brick below. Could be easily rolled in front of the TV and away again.

@fozztexx A Sinclair and later a TRS-80 sat on a shelf under the TV. When I wanted to use the computer I'd pull it out and sit cross-legged on the floor with the computer in my lap, usually with a manual or other reference material on the floor next to me.

@fozztexx I still hook my computer up to my “ TV “.

@fozztexx TV tray over here in front of a lazy boy (I know I spelled it incorrectly ;P ). After a while, we got a small television from K-mart and put the whole setup on a desk. Made loading games off of the floppy drive much easier.

@fozztexx Desk, TV/monitor pushed back and computer forward, but could be moved aside to write on the desk. Later, a proper computer hutch desk with riser for the monitor. Go look in the back of '80s computer mags on archive.org, you'll see all the ads.
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@fozztexx Here it was a rolling cart for a long while. Until I got my own TV about a year later, then I used an old children's table.

@fozztexx When my older brother attached the C64 to the living room TV, mostly when our father was not at home, we kept it on the floor and sat before that, looking up to the TV.

@fozztexx Our Color Computer 2 was always on the floor when we used it with the family TV. It did live on a desk in a bedroom shared with my brother for a while, after someone gave us an old TV.

@fozztexx we had a Commodore 64 connected via RF cable to an (already at the time) old B/W tv in a study room. But during the christmas festivities or the summer vacations I moved it (including its bulky disk drive) to the living room to enjoy color gaming 😂
I placed it on the same big L-shaped forniture the TV was on, there was a lot of space I just had to move some ornaments. We played seating on the floor, because the joysticks cables didn't reach the sofa, and typed on the keyboard on the knees because the forniture was a little too high.
Not very confortable, but at the time I was a child and it didn't matter...

@fozztexx floor under the tv stand;