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belal1
07-12-07, 03:59 PM
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact2162.html

now that's some awesome ingenuity.

Kal-El
07-12-07, 04:10 PM
That is sweet.

elji
07-12-07, 08:50 PM
what crapness.. these idiots have too much time on their hands

belal1
07-12-07, 09:03 PM
what crapness.. these idiots have too much time on their hands

u mind ur language algae :nono:

elji
07-12-07, 09:12 PM
u mind ur language algae :nono:

ok what shall we call them .. ermm stupid?

belal1
07-12-07, 10:12 PM
ok what shall we call them .. ermm stupid?

u just mad cuz u couldn't do it :torture:

Te'oma
07-12-07, 11:49 PM
Still looks better then this...I have to leave it open because the dang thing is on it's last legs and I am constantly in there soldering this or wiggling that

belal1
08-12-07, 12:00 AM
Still looks better then this...I have to leave it open because the dang thing is on it's last legs and I am constantly in there soldering this or wiggling that

whoa! :rubeyes: when u called it frankenputer last time, u wasn't kidding!

but that looks very promissing....actually, i remember u mention u know how to weld and craft things? u ever thought about making custom cases? i bet if u wanted, u coulda make a really hot CPU case, maybe with some fiber glass? that would give it a really sleek polish :inlove:

perfectpearl
12-12-07, 05:40 PM
Must of took so much time..

Te'oma
14-12-07, 06:38 AM
whoa! :rubeyes: when u called it frankenputer last time, u wasn't kidding!

but that looks very promissing....actually, i remember u mention u know how to weld and craft things? u ever thought about making custom cases? i bet if u wanted, u coulda make a really hot CPU case, maybe with some fiber glass? that would give it a really sleek polish :inlove:

well the franken puter now has a new home. The power supply died night before last so I dug out an old ATX server case with a swappable drive. I moved all of the internals into the new case. I just need to get a SCSI card and I can run up to 8 drives :D

Lambo5688
14-12-07, 08:22 AM
Still looks better then this...I have to leave it open because the dang thing is on it's last legs and I am constantly in there soldering this or wiggling that

American Heroes Collection! :rotfl:


Thats a ugly laptop Belal, why didn't he just buy one. Its probably cheaper than that suitcase.

Te'oma
17-12-07, 10:41 PM
LOL hey...I just play the pacific warriors game :embar:

imported_belal1
17-12-07, 10:49 PM
well the franken puter now has a new home. The power supply died night before last so I dug out an old ATX server case with a swappable drive. I moved all of the internals into the new case. I just need to get a SCSI card and I can run up to 8 drives :D

interesting stuff. why did your power supply die out? was it really old?

btw, 8 drives, that's alot of data. u knwo if u have that kind of storage, and u keep that server on all the time, u might aswell do a cool project, like take old pc's...turn them into media terminals, where u keep the movies, shows, cartoons, etc, on the server with 8 drives, and have the other pc's just grab the content via VLC or something. it's a awesome project if u like working with ur hands (which I am sure u like)

American Heroes Collection! :rotfl:


Thats a ugly laptop Belal, why didn't he just buy one. Its probably cheaper than that suitcase.

when u get older, u'll start appreciating things that you make with your own hands.

Te'oma
17-12-07, 10:59 PM
interesting stuff. why did your power supply die out? was it really old?

btw, 8 drives, that's alot of data. u knwo if u have that kind of storage, and u keep that server on all the time, u might aswell do a cool project, like take old pc's...turn them into media terminals, where u keep the movies, shows, cartoons, etc, on the server with 8 drives, and have the other pc's just grab the content via VLC or something. it's a awesome project if u like working with ur hands (which I am sure u like)





The voltage rectifier burned out and yes it was old. I have other power supplies kicking around but none that would fit in the case so I just went with the biggest case I could find :D
Before I can start doing projects like that, I need to buy some decent sized scsi drives. I chucked the ones that were in it because combined they didn't add up to one gig :p...did I mention that it was an old server :p

belal1
17-12-07, 11:08 PM
The voltage rectifier burned out and yes it was old. I have other power supplies kicking around but none that would fit in the case so I just went with the biggest case I could find :D
Before I can start doing projects like that, I need to buy some decent sized scsi drives. I chucked the ones that were in it because combined they didn't add up to one gig :p...did I mention that it was an old server :p

LOL, u gotta be kidding me. u got hard drives that old lying around? reminds me of my uncle's OLDDD 286 pc which had 102 MB hard drive (it was "high tech" back in the days).

u sure u wanna use SCSI with such old HDs?

side-topic: did u know u could use ur VCR as a tape drive? u can hack it so u can use regular old VHS as tape drives, and get gigabytes of data storage...