yeah this one time i saw a intel machine that had MAC OS 8 on it... it was a strange thing.
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yeah this one time i saw a intel machine that had MAC OS 8 on it... it was a strange thing.
How about the Compaq "footballs" as we so lovingly call them at my shop. You know, the mini-mini-tower where you have to remove the power supply to upgrade the ram?
They looked more like a sewing machine all packed up. I used to have one. I gutted it and managed to put a 486 in the case and use the exsisting video hardware.Quote:
Originally posted by FatalException0E:
Compaq also sold something ages ago that looked like a portable vacuum cleaner - keyboard clipped to bottom, 8 inch monitor in case, was a 286.
Helluva project.
Helluva mess.
Helluva waste of time.
But I have fun.
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Years ago I worked in an office that used Prime PCs. The power supply plugged into the backplane!. You also could not run the machine with the case off as there was a switch that kept the PC from running without the case. We quickly learned to bypass that design flaw!
I swear, the big C puts little sharp jagged pieces in their older machines. I was sticking an RW drive into a P233 model, and the hand came out with enough lacerations that I was glad my teatnus (sp?) shot was oup to date. https://forums.windrivers.com/Quote:
Originally posted by Niaboc Sanavrin:
How about the Compaq "footballs" as we so lovingly call them at my shop. You know, the mini-mini-tower where you have to remove the power supply to upgrade the ram?
They looked more like a sewing machine all packed up. I used to have one. I gutted it and managed to put a 486 in the case and use the exsisting video hardware.Quote:
Originally posted by FatalException0E:
Compaq also sold something ages ago that looked like a portable vacuum cleaner - keyboard clipped to bottom, 8 inch monitor in case, was a 286.
Helluva project.
Helluva mess.
Helluva waste of time.
But I have fun.
Gotta love those brand-name computers :-)
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Well, for the computer MFG I used to work support for, the last system that got shipped out (they went bankrupt) was a box of wood. Now THEREs an odd setup....
How about a VCR and a Nintendo attached to an old Commodore 64 monitor?
I had a Linux BOX for a while, no case (couldn't afford one and figured who needs it anyway~!), just the internals in a brown cardboard box with a fan blowing in and a fan blowing out. It worked well as a firewall.
I work at a Computer Renaissance and you wouldn't BELIEVE the old junkers that come in here sometimes to be repaired (or worse yet, that someone thinks we're going to PAY hundreds of bucks for.) I've seen three of the Crapaq Sewing Machines in the past year. The weirdest thing, however, has got to be the mural my tech class made on the wall to honour our teacher--it had computer components and random bits of nonrelated hardware strewn across a 4'x6' board, with working connections, fans, LEDs, bells, whistles, and other doohickeys that looked really cool but didn't actually function as a computer. We had a great time razzing the next class by telling them that by the end of the course they had to make it "work" or they would fail.
(And if I ever get my hands on one of the Crapaq design engineers...)
You all familiar with those bizarre Packard Hell corner units with the L-shaped cases?
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yo Ive Actually GOT one of them things. ive had it knockin around for years. it took me an hour to figure out how to get it to come on. and to this day ive never managed to get INSIDE the darn thang!Quote:
Originally posted by FatalException0E:
Compaq also sold something ages ago that looked like a portable vacuum cleaner - keyboard clipped to bottom, 8 inch monitor in case, was a 286. Then there was the computer someone brought in that had been shot.......
How about those old AST systems with the monitor built in. Actually was a pretty good design.
here in the shop we have a computer that we used as a tester for chips...ram....drives..etc.. the "case" was a piece of wood with a bracket to slip diff. MB's in and it had both an AT and ATX power supply...needless to say i wish my compuer at home was setup like that..
I work for a big computer retail store, so I have seen the come, and I have seen them go, I have seen the Compaq Toaster, the Compaq "VCR", but by far, the worst case design I have ever seen... was a design produded by NEC before they went out of business. This was a tan and blue tower, that had the CD Rom, CD-RW and the floppy drive verticle instead of the standard horizontal. Let me tell you, this was the most pain in the but case I have even had to contend with.
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If I can't beat you, I'll run you off the road.
I would have to say the oddest set up is my friends PIII machine that was hand built, but the power switch was broken, so he stripped the two wires from the switch and now jump starts it when he uses it... I laughed so hard the first time I saw it. It was priceless.
same story here built a machine from an old industrial alarm enclosure used a nibbler to chew out air vents for the heat sinks then right when i was in the middle of it ATX comes out....no momentary switches around so i pop the door and short the jumper with a screwdriver....my boss was watching this procedure (software gal no hardware knowledge at all...) and she just about peed her self laughing....but now whenever something needs "jury rigin" im the man.... i ought to jury rig her brake light controll so every time she hits the brake her in dash computer will put "pay your tech more" on the display....
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hear that sound? thats me shakin the pillars of heaven baby.
I would love an internal CD burner
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USB hard drive.