Orac^3 -- Not Your Everyday Casemod

jmke writes "G-nome has finished his amazing Orac case mod, which looks absolutely stunning." An excerpt from the site: "Ever since I saw the first series of Blakes 7 I have wanted my own Orac. For those that don't know, Blakes 7 was a late 70s/early 80s British Science Fiction series and Orac was this intellectually snobbish, difficult and incredibly brilliant computer, hand built by an eccentric scientist. The special effects were straight out of 60's Star Trek and a lot of the props were converted from (or later converted to) props from other classic BBC series such as Doctor Who and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (where the Bambleweeny 57 sub-meson brain looks like it was made by the same bloke!)."

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Could you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?

[Anonymous Coward]

I could.

Amusing, but misguided.

[DerProfi]

Like millions of others, I'm always mucking around in my PC. For the past 15 years, all of the various incarnations of my main desktop have spent most of their time with the cover off. And I've yet to have a single cell phone problem, cordless phone problem, pager problem, AM radio problem, FM radio problem, shortwave radio problem, CB radio problem, 802.11b, g or a problem, TV reception problem, or flux capacitor problem. Best of all, chicks dig it! And who can blame them? I'm clearly the kind of guy who likes to live life on the edge.

Re:It's a radio.

[treyb]

It doesn't need any shielding: he used transparent aluminum.

Re:names are important

[aardvarkjoe]

So, let's see:

• The article submitters don't RTFA.
• The editors don't RTFA.
• The posters don't RTFA.
• The moderators don't RTFA.

As far as I can tell, nobody visits these web sites. So what exactly is the slashdot effect?

Not Orac -- ORACLE

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Indeed. And why is it called Orac when it doesn't actually look anything like Orac?

It isn't a Dr. Who homage. The problem is that he only used a half-size tower case. If he had gone with a full-tower, he would not have had to leave off the "le" on the end. At least he used something approximating the corporate font on the resevoir so you still kind of get an impression of what he was aiming for.