[geeks] Cerf Cube

[Ken Hansen]

A BookPC is fine, if you never have to work on it yourself.

If you are going to tinker with the innards, then the current cases are fine (IMHO).

Trying to make computers look "nicer" results in a bunch of oddly-shaped PCs on liquidation, IMHO.

I saw a Penguin, Lion, and Cat PC case at a recent computer show - why?

Even my kid (at 4 yrs. old) would dislike that...

Now an IMSAI 8080-style case, with a couple high-end CPUs and *lots* of flashing LEDs would be welcome in my house.

Heck, I'd be happy if such a system were as powerful/usable as an LX or SS/5 - but an Ultra 2 with such an array of LEDs would be great, but the number of LEDs needed to represent just the data would be huge (64 x 2 CPUs), and the speed would make them appear to be "always on."

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: James Fogg [mailto:jfogg at vicinity.com]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 3:19 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [geeks] Cerf Cube


On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, THOU SPAKE:
> But, as you said, it has USB.  And darn it, I want it to be a desktop
> device, and a cheap one at that.  Someone needs to start marketing a
> serious competitor to Windows and Mac, and building some that is less
> appliance like, but that still take after (software wise) the NIC, then
> maybe they would have something that would make money.  Especially if it
> would work with normal ISPs and cost under $300.

Maybe "The Desk Is The Desktop"? Get a 1U machine and bolt it under the desk.
Then use a flat panel display on the desk or screwed to a wall behind the desk.
Instead of "cool looking" it wouldn't look like anything.

If you need "cool looking", run a combo video/keyboard/mouse/scsi cable to a way
cool looking box and place the CD drive and some connectors there. Personnaly,
I think the G4 Cube looks like a tissue dispenser or a toaster (esp when the CD
pops up).

I think my box-of-choice would be a radio from a 1950's car. Have the CD drawer
push open the dial.

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