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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. Case mods...off topic by TeldakSS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe you should make Case Mods a seperate category of news. I mean, lately there have been about 1 a day. that should be enough, considering some categories come up RARELY (Amiga, MacOS, etc).
    Just a suggestion.
    -teldak

    1. Re:Case mods...off topic by Bonker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      a quick search for 'Case Mods' down at the bottom of the screen turns up dozens of subjects that have more to do with court cases than PC cases.

      That said, 99% of the casemods, radical overclockings, unique PC hacks I read come from slashdot. Why not make a 'Hardware Hacks' (Suggestion: Hacksaw Icon) area that deals with things like this and then keep the Hardware area pure for people who are interested in reading about new kinds of hardware, or the recent 'Intel likes DDR Ram' stories we've been seeing.

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  2. Re:uh, why? by Ozx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about instead of 3-4k posts of "This doesn't belong here" on _every_ single article, you people simply send your complaints to the editors?

  3. This isn't that odd... by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but it begs the question: What is the most ludicrous case mod out there, in terms of effort and aesthetic of the result? Anyone?
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  4. RF leakage by nsayer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I dunno.... Looking at the pictures it looks like there's an awful lot of unshielded plastic. The reason PCs go into metal boxes is so that you don't wreck your next door neighbor's TV reception (or worse).

  5. Re:I did something similar... by Octorian · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. What the heck were you smoking?

    I'd trust an old Sparc running something like OpenBSD FAR more than I'd ever trust PC hardware for something "critical to your network" like a firewall/router box. I used to use a complete Sparc IPX for exactly that, and am now doing the same with a SPARCstation 5. They work beautifully. The hardware is high-quality, rock-solid stable, and won't ever fail me. It's the kind of machine I don't have to worry about, because I know it'll run forever.

  6. Re:I *like* my SGI. by JoshMKiV · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you people read the articles and associated pages? It said that the case was empty, having been stripped of all hardware.