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ElectriClerk Computer Of The Future
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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I've seen this already in a magazine (MacAddict?) but it's nice to see it's made its way into Slashdot.
Now just to trick out a G4 cube like this...
I've never seen Terry Gilliam's Brazil, so I can't compare this with the machine he says its based on, but it is very reminiscent of the computer used by the private detective in the Detective Story short film in The Animatrix. Very retro-cool. Though why build it with old circa 1980s Mac parts instead of present tech escapes me.
"I'm making perfect sense, you're just not keeping up."
Given the heat problems of that classic-style Macintosh case, i'm sure the components are actually cooler now than they were inside that thing.
The SE had a fan at least, the Mac Plus didn't have one, which spawned a significant aftermarket in attachable fan modules that would slide into the handle vent (and had an AC cord of their own).
That was all a Steve Jobs snafu - he wanted the Macs to be silent so they were. They were so silent they overheated. After his departure from Apple the fan was added in.
Brings the problems with that lucite cube into better perspective, when you remember back to that.
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Check out the Underwood No. 5 PC where yet another fellow with too active an imagination has converted a typewriter to a computer. Quite clever, actually.
From the headline and summary, I was expecting it to be a fake prop computer (like the kind you see in furniture stores) that had been retrofitted with electronics so that it actually worked.
Now THAT would have been a pretty damn postmodern casemod.
*sigh*, well I guess this compute-writer thing is OK too.
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When I first read the "prop" part, I imagined those prop computers you see in furniture stores. You know, those plastic computer shells that resemble a generic computer (though lately Ikea seems to be using actual gutted computer cases).
In any case, I thought it would be hilarious to take something that was designed to look like a computer but not be one and make it into a computer. Or a toaster. Or anything functional.
Yes, you did see this on Slashdot before. I too have been visitng this site for years, and obvious repeats like this one disappoint me. Am I the only one here paying attention?
The original is here if you're interested in reading the original comments.
The mod is still cool. It reminds both of the movie Brazil as well as Theora Jones' terminal in the TV show Max Headroom. Ah, wonderful!