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Quiet Desk (Not Desktop) PC
Anonymous Coward writes "Rusty took a wholly different approach to PC noise: he built his XP1900+ machine right into the desk! While it may not make the PC industry scramble to define a new *desk* (not desktop) form factor, Rusty's inventive techniques will surely have computer hardware enthusiasts poring over his fine work."
Kinda reminds me of this, eh?
Hilary Rosen's speech was about her love of money and her desire to roll around naked in a pile of money.
www.wworld.com/users/seancrago/CaseUnAssembledRigh t.jpgp g
/.ed, you won't be missing much if you get a couple of pics. Only really novel thing explained in the text of the article was where he explained that the CPU was a down-volted xp1900, w/passive cooling.
www.wworld.com/users/seancrago/CaseOpen1.j
Those mirrors won't last long, but they're the most impressive of the pics in the article. Even if the site stays
Use your brain, if /. hosts the mirror locally, then the number of people access their site isn't going to go up. The total bandwidth might go up a little bit due to more images, but in the end it would have a minimal effect on them. It's not going to magically draw more users from the void to hit /.
What?
Actually no, all the cables have enough extra length looped into them at the end to allow the drawer to open fully. Trust me, it's my computer. (in fact i'm typing on it right now) But thank god that silentpcreview isn't my site, and that my machine isn't the server! If anybody has any specific questions I can try to answer them, since at the moment you can't actually see the site.
For example, the Noval 760, a Z-80 system with monitor, tape drive, and printer, built into a desk. The peripherals are in a hinged portion so they can be kept out of the way when you're not computing. The Noval was reviewed in Byte magazine in 1977.
Go grab this file.
Unzip, preserving folder names, and enjoy.
Jouster