[RESOLVED] whats the oddest computer setup you have seen

The oddest computer setup i have ever seen was a bizzare motherboard mounting. This customer brings in some old moldy at case that he claims crashes all the time, etc. All sorts of bizzare problems. Anyways, I looked at the thing for a while and decided that it probably had hardware problems instead of just simple software errors. Come to find out whoever assembled this stinkin machine decided that motherboards don't need to be screwed into their standoff's! all this joker had was one plastic standoff securing the motherboard in place while he merely placed electrical tape over the rest of the metal standoff's to keep the motherboard from shorting out!

All of us tech's were laughing until we cried on that one.

A girl I work with has a "Computer Expert" dad. He built her a P133 system, and to ensure the mobo did not ground out on the case, he put the bubblewrap baggie between the mobo and the case! Heat problems...you bet! Then, he put in a super old Sound Blaster card (the real old ones, that took 30-pin simms) that was so long, it sagged and grounded the end to the case. So he broke out the electrical tape...

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Originally posted by jza734:
The oddest computer setup i have ever seen was a bizzare motherboard mounting. This customer brings in some old moldy at case that he claims crashes all the time, etc. All sorts of bizzare problems. Anyways, I looked at the thing for a while and decided that it probably had hardware problems instead of just simple software errors. Come to find out whoever assembled this stinkin machine decided that motherboards don't need to be screwed into their standoff's! all this joker had was one plastic standoff securing the motherboard in place while he merely placed electrical tape over the rest of the metal standoff's to keep the motherboard from shorting out!

All of us tech's were laughing until we cried on that one.

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Is the damn thing plugged in, is the damn thing turned on?

haha i saw two other ones (insane motherboard mountings) that made me cry from laughter:

The first one somebody actually screwed their mobo directly into the case with screws, (sans standoffs) then wondered why it wouldn't do anything, gee i wonder?

The second:
This person actually reversed the standoff's, so the motherboard was sitting right on the thread of the standoff's - no joking!

Anyone else got crazy computer hardware stores?

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Originally posted by Snommis69:
A girl I work with has a "Computer Expert" dad. He built her a P133 system, and to ensure the mobo did not ground out on the case, he put the bubblewrap baggie between the mobo and the case! Heat problems...you bet! Then, he put in a super old Sound Blaster card (the real old ones, that took 30-pin simms) that was so long, it sagged and grounded the end to the case. So he broke out the electrical tape...

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The best I ever saw was a system that had no case... All of the parts were hot glued to a sheet of plywood... https://forums.windrivers.com/

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It's a dog eat dog world out there and I'm wearing milk bone underwear.

The oddest computer setup I saw was a 286 running Windows 3.1 and Multitasking

I don't think this is particularly odd...unless you are from Pakistan or some 3rd world country

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I would love an internal CD burner

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I have a Compaq Deskpro 386/20 running Arachne for DOS (Web browser w/frames, jpeg & png support) that I can get onto the 'net with.

Other than that, I can dial into my shell account and use Lynx to browse (ha!) the web on my Apple ][e and even older is my Ohio Scientific Inc. Challanger 1P (it takes half an hour to load the terminal program off of ***cassette tape***) circa 1979.

I also have a working Digital DECWriter IV (very dumb hard terminal) that can be used to do this, but everytime you jump to another link, it's got to reprint the entire page. A real paper waster... FYI - this connects via a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem - a machine for people that have a lot of time on their hands

used to work for a super spy agency when i was in the military... where i worked they had a warehouse of all kinds of computers and electronics (a techies dream!)from the latest thin flat screen monitors to the oldest thing i found ( i dont know what it was or how old it was) but the thing couldnt load dos on it it was like 2 feet X 2 feet X 1 foot tall, amber screen and keyboard built in and weighed about 20 lbs. https://forums.windrivers.com/

[This message has been edited by Rstutte (edited December 21, 2000).]

I found this one kinda funny...

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Rstutte:
used to work for a super spy agency when i was in the military... where i worked they had a warehouse of all kinds of computers and electronics from the latest thin flat screen monitors to the oldest thing i found ( i dont know what it was or how old it was) but the thing couldnt load dos on it it was like 2 feet X 2 feet X 1 foot tall, amber screen and keyboard built in https://forums.windrivers.com/ </font>

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sounds like an old artillery computer....feed in windspeed elevation etc they give you the powder weight / fuse setting....supposed to give remote access to a "hog" but it needed like a 1" diameter cable that ran from one gun to the next....only thing is the cable was so thick that if you ran it over in a jeep it would seperate the stranded cable and pop the shielding....dead cable 14 - 15 times a day....smaaarrrrrrt! musta been thought up by intelligence.



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A bulletin board server, it was literally mounted to the wall on a bulletin board!

I used to hang with this guy Vinnie...he had a Compaq mini tower. Problem was, he had powered off the damn thing too hard and dislodged the power button. Too bad I didnt know him b4 he did this...he took pliers and ripped the button off..so he now has too hot wire his computer on and off...it sparks and really shocks you if you arent carefull..
I dont know what kind of current or voiltage runs through those switches..!!!

A friend of mine Justin, who is THE linux guru, works for a lady creating web sites, well she only had a G3 and didnt know any better (a b*tch to get perl to work right or something like that), well first of he got Linux to work on it, (yellow dog), then for her to use some program available only to window, he uses wine, what is really funny, is that somehow he got all of the os's to work with a weird USB modem. He was sitting here one night working on my sendmail server and told me about this, I laughed for ten minutes, A mac running with linux, and using WINE? go figure

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Bah friggin Humbug