What's the worst computer chassis hack you've done?
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I've seen a computer run out of a pizza box (on the Internet anyway) - just the mobo and drive and stuff sitting in a greasy box. When I was young I put a 286 mobo and MFM HDD (remember those?) inside a cabinet with wood screws. Soon I will be propping my PC up on 4 soup cans to give my 1000 watt PSU's fan some clearance to see if that solves my overheat problem when I use 4k rendering. Gotta wait for some adapters for my 2 remaining fans though before I try that. Life goals are the setup from the movie Pi.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I've seen a computer run out of a pizza box (on the Internet anyway) - just the mobo and drive and stuff sitting in a greasy box. When I was young I put a 286 mobo and MFM HDD (remember those?) inside a cabinet with wood screws. Soon I will be propping my PC up on 4 soup cans to give my 1000 watt PSU's fan some clearance to see if that solves my overheat problem when I use 4k rendering. Gotta wait for some adapters for my 2 remaining fans though before I try that. Life goals are the setup from the movie Pi.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I've seen a computer run out of a pizza box (on the Internet anyway) - just the mobo and drive and stuff sitting in a greasy box. When I was young I put a 286 mobo and MFM HDD (remember those?) inside a cabinet with wood screws. Soon I will be propping my PC up on 4 soup cans to give my 1000 watt PSU's fan some clearance to see if that solves my overheat problem when I use 4k rendering. Gotta wait for some adapters for my 2 remaining fans though before I try that. Life goals are the setup from the movie Pi.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
A and B drive cables, getcha some. WD st-225 perhaps?
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A and B drive cables, getcha some. WD st-225 perhaps?
I think it was. It certainly looks familiar - the "half" height one anyway, not the one that takes two bays. LOL
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I think it was. It certainly looks familiar - the "half" height one anyway, not the one that takes two bays. LOL
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Yeah they were standard edition in the heyday. Brass colored, squeaky seek, :-D
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Yeah they were standard edition in the heyday. Brass colored, squeaky seek, :-D
I liked the little bleeps and blips. :)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I've seen a computer run out of a pizza box (on the Internet anyway) - just the mobo and drive and stuff sitting in a greasy box. When I was young I put a 286 mobo and MFM HDD (remember those?) inside a cabinet with wood screws. Soon I will be propping my PC up on 4 soup cans to give my 1000 watt PSU's fan some clearance to see if that solves my overheat problem when I use 4k rendering. Gotta wait for some adapters for my 2 remaining fans though before I try that. Life goals are the setup from the movie Pi.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I once took apart my box and re-arranged the parts inside my table drawer... It gave me more space and a pinch of satisfaction when realized didn't blew up nothing...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I've seen a computer run out of a pizza box (on the Internet anyway) - just the mobo and drive and stuff sitting in a greasy box. When I was young I put a 286 mobo and MFM HDD (remember those?) inside a cabinet with wood screws. Soon I will be propping my PC up on 4 soup cans to give my 1000 watt PSU's fan some clearance to see if that solves my overheat problem when I use 4k rendering. Gotta wait for some adapters for my 2 remaining fans though before I try that. Life goals are the setup from the movie Pi.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
For the last 23 months my laptop stand has been half a 12pack of pop. The other half went into the fridge and was drank a long time ago; but the conclusion from trying something different was "meh, I'd rather drink other stuff" and so the remainder has sat unwanted ever since.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
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I've seen a computer run out of a pizza box (on the Internet anyway) - just the mobo and drive and stuff sitting in a greasy box. When I was young I put a 286 mobo and MFM HDD (remember those?) inside a cabinet with wood screws. Soon I will be propping my PC up on 4 soup cans to give my 1000 watt PSU's fan some clearance to see if that solves my overheat problem when I use 4k rendering. Gotta wait for some adapters for my 2 remaining fans though before I try that. Life goals are the setup from the movie Pi.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
And here's me, looking at my stack of vintage OpenVMS systems. My AlphaServer DS10L is a "blade" server, but I ran the floppy cable and an EISA (?) cable out the back and into an old PC case which contains only the floppy drive, a DVD drive, another HDD, and a power supply to feed them. But it's not actually as big a hack as one might suspect... the AlphaServer and the PC were both made by Compaq, so it's kosher. https://www.codeproject.com/Uploads/Membership/Uploads/2587207/Computers.png[^] https://www.codeproject.com/Uploads/Membership/Uploads/2587207/BADGERback.jpg[^] Because it's a "blade" server, a DS10L has only two drive bays, mine has two HDDs in it. DEC used SCSI for peripherals, but Compaq used EISA :wtf: . The other week someone asked about what we do with old EISA HDDs; this is what I did with mine.
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I've seen a computer run out of a pizza box (on the Internet anyway) - just the mobo and drive and stuff sitting in a greasy box. When I was young I put a 286 mobo and MFM HDD (remember those?) inside a cabinet with wood screws. Soon I will be propping my PC up on 4 soup cans to give my 1000 watt PSU's fan some clearance to see if that solves my overheat problem when I use 4k rendering. Gotta wait for some adapters for my 2 remaining fans though before I try that. Life goals are the setup from the movie Pi.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Holding everything inside with cotton string :-D At the time I couldn't afford a mobile chassis for my work computer (literally a PC I take to work) so I asked in my school for any chassis that they had for recycling. They gave me an old one that was not ATX compatible so I put some rubber feet on the back of the motherboard to avoid shorts, strapped it to the chassis using cotton string, put a smaller heatsink on the CPU (the chassis was thin), strapped the fan to the heatsink with more cotton string, drilled holes in four old CDs to mount the four laptop HDDs (using screws) and strapped that set with some more cotton string to the chassis. Then, because this computer would suffer some vibrations from the travels, I strapped everything with even more cotton string forming a sort of web over the motherboard to prevent anything from moving. To finalize the build, I wanted to add a "No cats allowed" sticker but couldn't get it to stick. The chassis was slippery :doh:
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Holding everything inside with cotton string :-D At the time I couldn't afford a mobile chassis for my work computer (literally a PC I take to work) so I asked in my school for any chassis that they had for recycling. They gave me an old one that was not ATX compatible so I put some rubber feet on the back of the motherboard to avoid shorts, strapped it to the chassis using cotton string, put a smaller heatsink on the CPU (the chassis was thin), strapped the fan to the heatsink with more cotton string, drilled holes in four old CDs to mount the four laptop HDDs (using screws) and strapped that set with some more cotton string to the chassis. Then, because this computer would suffer some vibrations from the travels, I strapped everything with even more cotton string forming a sort of web over the motherboard to prevent anything from moving. To finalize the build, I wanted to add a "No cats allowed" sticker but couldn't get it to stick. The chassis was slippery :doh:
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And here's me, looking at my stack of vintage OpenVMS systems. My AlphaServer DS10L is a "blade" server, but I ran the floppy cable and an EISA (?) cable out the back and into an old PC case which contains only the floppy drive, a DVD drive, another HDD, and a power supply to feed them. But it's not actually as big a hack as one might suspect... the AlphaServer and the PC were both made by Compaq, so it's kosher. https://www.codeproject.com/Uploads/Membership/Uploads/2587207/Computers.png[^] https://www.codeproject.com/Uploads/Membership/Uploads/2587207/BADGERback.jpg[^] Because it's a "blade" server, a DS10L has only two drive bays, mine has two HDDs in it. DEC used SCSI for peripherals, but Compaq used EISA :wtf: . The other week someone asked about what we do with old EISA HDDs; this is what I did with mine.
I'm guessing you don't spend a lot of time at that keyboard and monitor or there's a decent yoga mat just off camera.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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A and B drive cables, getcha some. WD st-225 perhaps?
I actually had and used a ST-506 drive on my Amiga computer. This was I believe the first commercially available 5MB drive. Was a full height drive too, so took up a lot of space. I remember too, was using it without a chassis, just plugged in with power and ribbon cable snaked out of the case. Sat beside the Amiga 2000 on the desk.
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I'm guessing you don't spend a lot of time at that keyboard and monitor or there's a decent yoga mat just off camera.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
Sadly, no. The VT220 went "pop" a few years ago. :sigh: I still have the keyboard and hopes of getting another VT of some sort. These days I use Putty to access these systems when I use them (which is rare).
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And here's me, looking at my stack of vintage OpenVMS systems. My AlphaServer DS10L is a "blade" server, but I ran the floppy cable and an EISA (?) cable out the back and into an old PC case which contains only the floppy drive, a DVD drive, another HDD, and a power supply to feed them. But it's not actually as big a hack as one might suspect... the AlphaServer and the PC were both made by Compaq, so it's kosher. https://www.codeproject.com/Uploads/Membership/Uploads/2587207/Computers.png[^] https://www.codeproject.com/Uploads/Membership/Uploads/2587207/BADGERback.jpg[^] Because it's a "blade" server, a DS10L has only two drive bays, mine has two HDDs in it. DEC used SCSI for peripherals, but Compaq used EISA :wtf: . The other week someone asked about what we do with old EISA HDDs; this is what I did with mine.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
looking at my stack of vintage
and here I thought you were going to expound on your stash of naughty mags. :laugh: :laugh:
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
looking at my stack of vintage
and here I thought you were going to expound on your stash of naughty mags. :laugh: :laugh:
Uh, hmmm... I have only one of those. I have the issue of Playboy from my birth month. :-O It contains Ursula Andress. :-D
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Holding everything inside with cotton string :-D At the time I couldn't afford a mobile chassis for my work computer (literally a PC I take to work) so I asked in my school for any chassis that they had for recycling. They gave me an old one that was not ATX compatible so I put some rubber feet on the back of the motherboard to avoid shorts, strapped it to the chassis using cotton string, put a smaller heatsink on the CPU (the chassis was thin), strapped the fan to the heatsink with more cotton string, drilled holes in four old CDs to mount the four laptop HDDs (using screws) and strapped that set with some more cotton string to the chassis. Then, because this computer would suffer some vibrations from the travels, I strapped everything with even more cotton string forming a sort of web over the motherboard to prevent anything from moving. To finalize the build, I wanted to add a "No cats allowed" sticker but couldn't get it to stick. The chassis was slippery :doh:
You just reminded me that the HDDs in my MicroVAX are kinda/sorta/vaguely held in place with cable ties, because it didn't include the proper brackets. :wtf:
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I've seen a computer run out of a pizza box (on the Internet anyway) - just the mobo and drive and stuff sitting in a greasy box. When I was young I put a 286 mobo and MFM HDD (remember those?) inside a cabinet with wood screws. Soon I will be propping my PC up on 4 soup cans to give my 1000 watt PSU's fan some clearance to see if that solves my overheat problem when I use 4k rendering. Gotta wait for some adapters for my 2 remaining fans though before I try that. Life goals are the setup from the movie Pi.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Got a desk with drawers on one side, and a box (closet?) on the other one. Box is four drawers high. Mounted a mini-PC motherboard in it. Passive cooling, very silent. The current PC doesn't fit; a monster of a machine built by a gamer. I still miss that old mini-PC though. In terms of performance, it outran many full sized desktops. Remember I said passive cooling? It burnt in a summer three years ago, scorched the desk. I was proud of it, and consider it my "best" machine. The worst, could have burnt down the house.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I've seen a computer run out of a pizza box (on the Internet anyway) - just the mobo and drive and stuff sitting in a greasy box. When I was young I put a 286 mobo and MFM HDD (remember those?) inside a cabinet with wood screws. Soon I will be propping my PC up on 4 soup cans to give my 1000 watt PSU's fan some clearance to see if that solves my overheat problem when I use 4k rendering. Gotta wait for some adapters for my 2 remaining fans though before I try that. Life goals are the setup from the movie Pi.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Back when I was in high school, I had a woodworking class and had spent a considerable amount of time thinking about designing a desk where the desk itself would be the chassis. I never went through with it however (which is probably for the best). The idea I had was that both front legs would essentially be enclosed cabinets with enough room to fit a motherboard and a bunch of peripherals; the back legs would've had power outlets running the full vertical length, essentially acting as extra-long power strips. Holes for fans, sliders for hot-swappable drives with front access...let your imagination run wild. I figured it would've been a heat trap, so it would've had a ton of fans. Which of course means the whole thing would've been noisy. Again...probably a good thing it never progressed any farther than a thought in my mind...
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I once took apart my box and re-arranged the parts inside my table drawer... It gave me more space and a pinch of satisfaction when realized didn't blew up nothing...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
I did similar, but chose a closet. More space to vent heat. A mini-PC with "passive" cooling. It didn't cool enough. Still, I like your idea. I'm gonna try that with my next one.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
