Casemodding Enterprise Hardware

Anonymous Coward writes "Think your tower case with led fans, a cold cathode and a window is cool? See what this guy did to two Sun Enterprise 15Ks -- a casemod on $1.3 million dollars of hardware! Will mainframes start shipping with light and window options now?"

Comments

hmmm

[mrpuffypants]

now i have this urge to mod out the old UNIVAC that I have out back in the garage

What, no "Type R" sticker?

[phillymjs]

This guy gets the Too Much Time On His Hands Award of the Week. What's his encore gonna be, a racing stripe on all the Cat-5 cable in the place?

~Philly

Re:What, no "Type R" sticker?

[timeOday]

Have you ever read this?

Mmm, coke

[pommaq]

Good job, now they look like $1.3m soda machines. He might impress me if he modded them to actually dispense soft drinks on demand!

Re:Mmm, coke

[Bishop923]

I thought that was what the TAB key was for?

*rimshot*

Re:Anonymous Coward? Why the e-mail address?

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, you finally caught me. For years, Slashdotters have wondered who Anonymous Coward is. I always covered my tracks and made sure that I could never be traced. But on this fateful day in October 2002, I am finally revealed. :(

Re:Case Mod

[Anonymous Coward]

> Dear Boss,
> You've been wondering what I've been doing for
> the last two weeks. Go check out the server room
> and prepare to be impressed.

That's beautiful.

You're fired.

The Boss

Hehe...

[Hilleh]

Funny this should come up, but just the other day my friend and I were discussing how we could trick the average person into believing we had a supercomputer. It went like this:
1) Take 4 server cases.
2) Weld together.
3) Liberally apply blinking lights, external fans, and colored cabling.
4) Set up a 286 in one of the cases.
5) Write a Basic program to display random 1's and 0's.
The sad thing is, if I invited almost anyone I know over and said "I'm calculating Pi on my supercomputer here", they would all believe it.

Re:Not a big mod...

[JaredOfEuropa]

True, it's not like he took a hacksaw to the case and put a few windows in *shudders* Still, pretty ballsy... imagine how you might have gone about it
- You go up to your boss and ask: "Can I stick some of these lights in those new servers?". Boss replies by smacking your head with a 2x4.
- You stick the lights in and your boss catches you doing it. "What the #*%^$ are you doing to these!?!?". Again, the 2x4 is utilised
- The boss walks in after you finished and sees a green glow coming from a previously dark cabinet, and calls Sun support in a panic. For making him look the fool, he'll take his 2x4 and make use of it in creative ways that you will not enjoy.

Plenty of scope here for trouble. And if you have a clueless boss, and God forbid something goes wrong with the machines, he and Sun both will blame your blinkenlights...