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ElectriClerk Computer Of The Future

Posted by timothy on from the depends-what-you-call-future dept.

ElDuderino44137 points out this "Fully functional retrofitted prop computer." Chocolate / peanut butter, Mac SE / Underwood. This is no spray-paint job.

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  1. 1988 Mac married to a 1923 Typewriter ... by mios · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... still looks hotter than the latest Dell box I've seen ... and who ever said Apple Computers just look sexy from the outside ... hey ... if you zoom up in on the monitor of that picture, I think I can make out the AmigaOS 4 AmiDock running on the bottom of there ...

  2. Re:Wow... by Have+Blue · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The site is already Slashdotted (with 1 comment!)

    I really wish people would stop being amazed at that. What's obviously going on is that the site has been slashdotted by subscribers who see the article before us freeloaders, as the front page constantly reminds us.

  3. Where's the pneumatic tube? by Animats · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The original had a pneumatic tube attachment.

  4. Re:The Animatrix by kfg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Though why build it with old circa 1980s Mac parts instead of present tech escapes me.

    Because it's there.

    KFG

  5. Re:1 Post and already slashdotted? by gb506 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With a cheap IP-aware localtalk bridge on the network the ethernet adapter wouldn't even be needed...

    Up until the company was sold a couple of years ago, I had a newspaper client (Mac support) that still used SE, SE30, and Mac Classics for their ad/classified sales staff. Eudora, Word 5.1 and Filemaker was all they needed to get the job done... And probably would be all they'd need to get the job done today...

    I guess that's one way to stop your employees from wasting time on the web - kinda takes the fun out of it when everything is in B/W and doesn't work with vintage 1995 Netscape!

  6. Re:That Mac SE probably runs *better* now... by gb506 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've supported hundreds of pre-jobs departure fanless macs and I've *NEVER* had one overheat in normal operating environments... Please dig deeper into the bag to find some reality-based crap to fling, cuz this is FUD.

  7. Meet the Underwood Clark Nova model. by MsGeek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, that mod is great...the only thing that it needs is a talking anus. Shades of the David Cronenburg movie Naked Lunch. Exterminate all rational thought.

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  8. Re:The Animatrix by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Though why build it with old circa 1980s Mac parts instead of present tech escapes me.

    Maybe because the monitor size/shape was perfect. Monochrome, small, non-flat screen. Just disembowel the old SE and rearrange it as needed.

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  9. Moreover by Galvatron · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The largest surge of traffic is going to occur when the site first becomes available to non-subscribers. In other words, if the site lives past the first 2-3 comments, it'll probably stay up.

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    "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD