This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Keyboard case hack
Article: 8442 of alt.hackers From: chiner@quark.gmi.edu (Chris Hiner) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Keyboard case hack Date: 15 Aug 1995 02:12:48 GMT Organization: GMI Engin. & Mgt. Institute, Flint, MI Lines: 29 Approved: Someone@somewhere.important.com Message-ID: 40ovr0$f7s@zip.eecs.umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: quark.gmi.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 941216BETA PL0] Status: RO
Jeff Mercer (riffer@freenet2.freenet.ufl.edu) wrote:
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: For my next case hack, I'm going to take the computer case and use something
: entirely different on it (since it's painted metal rather than plastic). I
: was thinking about stripping off the paint and applying an antiquing kit of
: some sort to it, say antique copper... or maybe a marbling effect.
: ObButBeforeIDoThatHack: Figure out a way I can keep my computer covered and
: usable during the project... Hmmm...
Reminds me of a hack at my last job.... (not much of one....)
Obhack: My last job, I was constantly getting a different computer
to work with, as the old one got sold/scavenged for parts...
Well, one day, someone needed a computer case, and we didn't have
any spares around... Except... mine :)
So, I removed all the parts from the case, got out a spare power
supply, and proceeded to make a desktop computer...
(wooden desktop) The difficult part, was stacking everything
so it wouldn't all fall down...
2 3.5" IDE drives, 1 SCSI drive, 1 5.25" floppy, 1 3.5" floppy,
1 colorado internal tape drive, 1 Nec 3XE cdrom...
boards: diamond viper VLB, sound blaster 16, arcnet (full length),
10baseT board, SCSI adapter board, IDE/IO...
It was more of a deskful....
Chris Hiner
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chiner@quark.gmi.edu
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