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Iris Indigo Case Mod

Posted by timothy on from the blueness dept.

James Palmer writes: "I have always been enamored with SGI's Iris Indigo. Recently I resurrected an old Iris Indigo by retrofitting it with an ATX motherboard and powersupply." Lots of gruntwork here for a very impressive result.

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  1. Resurrected? by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 2, Funny

    More like butchered.

  2. Following Tough Acts by ksw2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Talk about following "tough acts"... that Frozen case earlier today makes this one look like my ass.

    1. Re:Following Tough Acts by Dr.+Awktagon · · Score: 3, Funny

      that Frozen case earlier today makes this one look like my ass.

      Your ass has USB? That's ain't no USB port, bro.. ;-)

  3. like overclocking is for people... by univgeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    who set fire to their cars? ;-)

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    1. Re:like overclocking is for people... by fava · · Score: 2, Funny

      who set fire to their cars? ;-)

      A friend of mine did that. He removed the carpet and had sprayed on undercoat inside his car, but it wasnt drying fast enough, so he tried to speed up the process with an electric fan heater.

      Bad Move.

      He compleatly burnt out the inside of his own car. Fortunatly he managed to put it out before it set fire to his garage and house.

      He earned himself the nickname Torch that day.

      Yes this is Off Topic.

  4. One question... by cethiesus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where can I get a wife that will go dumpster-diving for computer hardware with me?

    Do tell.

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  5. Ask a stupid question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...
    in a dumpster.

  6. I bet the FCC could tell. by Fizzlewhiff · · Score: 3, Funny

    You would never know it's not a real Iris Indigo.

    With all the metal removed and a plexiglass frame replacing it the FCC could probably tell its not a real Indigo from the EMF radiation.

    I think though that I might be inspired to do a case mod now using a Sun 411 enclosure. Given the past two days bigger cases seem to be better, perhaps I can mount my Handspring inside it.

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  7. the cute girl case-mod by spookysuicide · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wish the case-mod insdustry and the sex-toy industry would join forces in an onholy alliance that would present to the world the ultimate geek product. A hot, lifelike girl that dual booted and had room for 5 drives, a couple gigs of ram and had usb, firewire and biological "ports". Until that happens I just don't see the point. :)

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  8. Jeez.. "Unremarkable hardware" by Tony.Tang · · Score: 3, Funny
    From the site: The hardware itself isn't particularly remarkable.... I am using a Soyo K7ADA motherboard with a 1.2 Ghz T-bird and 512 megs of DDR ram.

    Jeez. I wish I could say things like that. (/me pats his p166 fondly)

  9. Indigos weren't designed to have internal CDROM?? by GodWasAnAlien · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they were designed for ripping the guts out
    and replacing with a PC?

    Maybe if the case was bigger, then you could squeeze a CDROM in.

    -don

  10. With apologies by JediTrainer · · Score: 2, Funny

    My name is Indigo Montoya. You stole my RF shielding. Prepare to die!

    *ducks*

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  11. Why not do it the the other way around by targo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well.. putting a regular machine into a fancy machine's box is kind of like cheating. Of course, your guests are going to be impressed for a second but the disappointment will be bigger.
    I've seen a Sun Ultra being put in an old XT case. Now pointing to this XT case and saying 'well, this is our server' was much cooler IMHO :-)

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