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Neat IBM 5150 Case Mod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the remember-these-things dept.

kminogue sent in a case mod that definitely is different then the ones we've been seeing lately. Instead of tricking out something ultra modern w/ lights and windows, this guy modded an IBM 5150, yes, thats right, it's the original PC, back for a new generation. The color scheme is a little disturbing, but the end results are pretty sweet. To say nothing of the nostalgia I feel when I see that case. Update: 08/27 03:00 AM GMT by T : citroidSD wrote to say: "I put up a mirror at another stronger server."

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  1. fist post by beee · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    8)

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  2. Lowest Numbered Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Heh, this post is the lowest number associated with this topic!! Beat that! I LOVE MICROSOFT!!

  3. Can you imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a beowulf clusters of these babies?

  4. What's new? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. What I do with CmdrTaco stories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. It's already dead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdotted.

  7. THIS IS SO OLD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DUHH! this thing has been on I think virtual hideout for months!!! I remember looking at this a long time ago.

  8. Gone in 20 comments... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's going to have to be the new Slashdot movie.

    Film at 11.

  9. Re:My Advice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And why would you think that way?

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  10. Dead Nietzsche answers all your questions. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But in this case I have to reply with a new question:

    Ever heard the term "copyright" ?

    1. Re:Dead Nietzsche answers all your questions. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Then I must reply with this question... How is google doing it then?

    2. Re:Dead Nietzsche answers all your questions. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      How is google doing it then?

      Quiet, you fool! Don't give Jackbeard any ideas!

  11. Dead Socrates is puzzled. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Forgive me, perhaps because I am a foolish (and dead) old man, I don't understand your reply. I beleive, and I could be wrong, that you are asking a rhetorical question which implies that copyrights are the reason why Slashdot can't cache copies. If you may allow me to continue this line of reasoning, I would just like to ask why Google is free from these same restrictions. Could you humour my remains by answering me?

    1. Re:Dead Socrates is puzzled. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If a company violates rights of individuals or companies it must be sued by these individuals or companies. But when someone starts sueing Google they would just no longer include him in their search results at all which would server im bad in the long term. Slashdot can't treathen them with this option and is therefore more endangered by such attacks. And additionally Slashdot provides content (not much, but it's there). This fact would make legal attacks easier.

  12. hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  13. What I do with the lameness filter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  14. Re:Argh! I just had one of those! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    friends don't let friends waste their lives getting an Arts degree.

  15. poop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  16. Re:Only one problem I can see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    > I need them! I need it now I am having withdrawals!

    Withdrawals? WITHDRAWALS??? Fuck YOU! HA! You think YOU have problems? Listen CUNT, I'm actually* withdrawing from smack right now, and trying not to remember that a nine pound bag (pounds sterling, not lbs weight. Fuckwit) is only a five minute walk away, and cursing my EVIL!! BITCH!!!!! girlfriend for fucking off for the long holiday weekend (in the UK) taking ALL THE METHS* with her, leaving me with NOTHING!!!! but a large pile of NT hotfixes to install, some fucking GENESIS and HAWKWIND albums, and Slashdot.

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  17. We're going to have a party with cookies and pie.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...gee, I hope no bad people come.

  18. Re:instead of google... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    404 objekt nicht gefunden

  19. MOD THIS REPLY UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod it up!

  20. Re:In car talk, this would be called a "Sleeper". by Denial+of+Service · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude, not to belittle your accomplishment, but any car can be reasonably fast in a straight line. Show me a Chevette that can out-corner a 93 Prelude and I'll bow at your feet.

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  21. OT: A Challenge re: Sleepers by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    but any car can be reasonably fast in a straight line. Show me a Chevette that can out-corner a 93 Prelude and I'll bow at your feet.

    Who cares?

    Most of Saturday night confrontation is stoplight to stoplight. That's straight line, baby.

    Do you want a pissing contest between a Chevette with more than double the displacement of your silly little Honda? A rear-wheel-drive setup which is far better for handling and cornering?

    Gimme two hours, I'll swap the front and rear shocks from drag shocks to a better rate for rally racing. Your only advantage with the Honda will be your independent rear suspension.

    But, like every front wheel drive car, you won't be able to fishtail around corners.

    That Chevette also has Fiero brake rotors and calipers on the front, Ford Crown Victoria full-size station wagon drums on the back, a roll-cage front to back, and I cut the dashboard in half to save six pounds. Six. The interior is a steel can with a driver's seat. That's it. And I personally bored that motor 0.030" over, shaved the heads to bring the compression ratio to 9.3:1, and ported and polished the intake and ports. The carb is a 600 CFM Carter ThermoQuad with a cool-can on the fuel line and a phenolic spacer to keep the float bowl from getting warm.

    I'm a computer geek, but I'm also an old-school gear-head. I built the motor in my car. At this point, it's basically a NASCAR motor with two cylinders missing. You probably took yours to be "tuned" at a "speed shop" that deals in emasculated 4-bangers.

    If you're like most Prelude owners I know, you've added 300lbs in stereo equipment, tinted the windows, put on $1,200 rims, and a big "Powered By Honda" sticker. (The "Powered By Honda" sticker might be impressive if you'd earned the right to put it on a Tercel.)

    You're outclassed.

    As a final warning, I grew up in Ottawa, Canada. Prime snowbelt. Lemme tell you, you learn quickly why cops and racecars *aren't* front wheel drive. And I've raced in several classes at both Luskville Dragway and Capital City Speedway.

    Wanna go?

    Care to race for pink slips?

    Still so sure, buddy-boy?

    I'd look forward to driving around with the crushed remains of a Prelude as the winter ballast in the back of my daily-driver 1976 Dodge Ram.

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