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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!)."
I could.
I am happy someone is doing more than just adding neon or chrome to an otherwise-boring beige box. Many of you may think this is wierd, but I am happy to see people express themselves inside or outside of the PC.
OK, this is a killer mod. But it just makes me wonder why so many people who do a total mod make it look just like a regualar tower PC case? With all that freedom... why is this still just a rectangular box?
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
Thanks to my /. subscription, i was able to secure some images!
orac3 images
You are confusing me with someone who cares.
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.
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Lesson for other meta-suckers: Don't believe the hype!
RF levels put out by computers are generally significantly lower than those put out by cell phones, and many other devices. You're generally bathed by much more radiation from other sources. In my testing, in order to really detect a computer's RF signals (with the case off), we had to put it in a shielded chambed because there was too much background noise.
Also, most manufacturers of computer parts have to get the parts certified by the FCC by themselves. The computer as a whole also gets certified, but the individual parts also do.
RF is crazy stuff. Since the inside of a case is mostly reflective, any small hole in the case (such as where your fan comes out, any air vents, etc) will effectivel cause all the RF to leak out. There's plenty of those in any standard case.
http://robotiq.com/index.asp?category=orac
It doesn't need any shielding: he used transparent aluminum.
- 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?How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
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.
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