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Ah, self lighting cigarettes, what other marvelous things will the future bring?
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been there did that
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
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Science is Truth for Life. In FORTRAN tongue the Answer.
...so I'm supposed to find the Shadow King from inside a daiquiri?

It's not an original ideal, but I'd like to build a modern PC in an old tower like that. I even once saw someone who put an SD card inside a 3.5" floppy disk and the reader inside the floppy drive.
ukimalefu wrote:user wrote: You'd have to put a multiplier on that processor speed display.
Maybe, or just a sticker that says x100.
That's a type of multiplier.
Those dials always got a snort of derision out of me. The things that PC users found impressive....
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Science is Truth for Life. In FORTRAN tongue the Answer.
...so I'm supposed to find the Shadow King from inside a daiquiri?
Science is Truth for Life. In FORTRAN tongue the Answer.
...so I'm supposed to find the Shadow King from inside a daiquiri?
ukimalefu wrote:
It's not an original ideal, but I'd like to build a modern PC in an old tower like that. I even once saw someone who put an SD card inside a 3.5" floppy disk and the reader inside the floppy drive.
My current PC is in a tower case similar to that. It is an old SuperMicro server case, and it has a slot at the top for a 3.5" floppy drive. It is amazingly easy to work on, as most of the cables are out of the way.
maurvir wrote:ukimalefu wrote:
It's not an original ideal, but I'd like to build a modern PC in an old tower like that. I even once saw someone who put an SD card inside a 3.5" floppy disk and the reader inside the floppy drive.
My current PC is in a tower case similar to that. It is an old SuperMicro server case, and it has a slot at the top for a 3.5" floppy drive. It is amazingly easy to work on, as most of the cables are out of the way.
I bet a Quadra 900 case has lots of room inside.
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I loved it.

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Pariah wrote: [img]PC%20case[/img]
I bet a Quadra 900 case has lots of room inside.
Maybe, but my idea is using an old, ugly, undesirable PC case, to disguise high-end hardware inside.
ukimalefu wrote:Pariah wrote: [img]PC%20case[/img]
I bet a Quadra 900 case has lots of room inside.
Maybe, but my idea is using an old, ugly, undesirable PC case, to disguise high-end hardware inside.
anyway i seem to recall that apple cases require heavy modification to be used as a modern pc case
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TOS wrote:ukimalefu wrote:Pariah wrote: [img]PC%20case[/img]
I bet a Quadra 900 case has lots of room inside.
Maybe, but my idea is using an old, ugly, undesirable PC case, to disguise high-end hardware inside.
anyway i seem to recall that apple cases require heavy modification to be used as a modern pc case
Yeah, they were pretty much "start over with fresh sheet metal" jobs. You might get one, maybe two, screw positions to match an ATX case, but it was pretty pointless.
Really a shame, too. Apple made some nice desktop cases.
maurvir wrote:TOS wrote:ukimalefu wrote:Pariah wrote: [img]PC%20case[/img]
I bet a Quadra 900 case has lots of room inside.
Maybe, but my idea is using an old, ugly, undesirable PC case, to disguise high-end hardware inside.
anyway i seem to recall that apple cases require heavy modification to be used as a modern pc case
Yeah, they were pretty much "start over with fresh sheet metal" jobs. You might get one, maybe two, screw positions to match an ATX case, but it was pretty pointless.
Really a shame, too. Apple made some nice desktop cases.
might be a fun project, but it seems very frustrating and knuckle-scrap-ey
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ukimalefu wrote:
Ah, self lighting cigarettes, what other marvelous things will the future bring?
Many years ago when I still smoked cigs, a friend of mine brought me some cigs like this from Germany. I'm not sure how he got them, but they were prototypes. Not only were they "self-lighting", they were also supposed to be "smokeless." The self lighting part made the entire cig taste like sulfur. And "smokeless" meant it was a tobacco was stuffed into a hollow foil-like tube (the only smoke came when you exhaled), which made the whole thing get really hot, and full of recycled smoke.
In a word: stick fiddling awful. (Okay, that's two words.)
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