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: <snip> : 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 -- chiner@quark.gmi.edu