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Orac^3 -- Not Your Everyday Casemod

Posted by timothy on from the wopr-junior dept.

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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  1. Partial mirror... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The site is chugging along slowly, but here's a mirror of the two shots on the front page so people can get the gist of the mod.
    Front
    Back

  2. image mirror by infonick · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thanks to my /. subscription, i was able to secure some images! orac3 images

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    You are confusing me with someone who cares.
  3. Re:Why? by Snad · · Score: 5, Informative

    With all that freedom... why is this still just a rectangular box?

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

    I hate to sound curmudgeonly, and the case mod looks interesting and all, but it looks about as much like a Dalek as it does Orac.

  4. mirror of 55 of the pics by 770291 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://robotiq.com/index.asp?category=orac