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Favorite Comment: Fixer dono1 says, “I don’t know when Microsoft bought Ikea but it looks like you can now load off-the-shelf software onto your PC and still have plenty of storage space available.”
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Win!
That was my first thought too!
…dows?
*chuckles*
I wonder if it has a floating point coprocessor.
I’m sure it does. It has an Intel Inside sticker
You know what? That is a good idea…
my dad’s a computer technician, i’m sure he could empty a few cpu’s for me to use as a book case. after all, if u can put a fish tank in an old monitor, u can totally use a computer as shelving.
laminate circuit boards for coasters, but have an expert remove capacitors cuz they could leak a toxic gas if ur not careful. they’re the cylindrical things on a circuit board.
anyone ever look at a piece of circuitry and notice how it looks like an aerial image of a city?
This is beautiful.
Digitizing and Print-On-Demand all in one. Selected titles only.
I should suggest this to my dad. He has dozens of old computers, and never enough storage space.
That….is…so…COOL!
If Green Peace had a say in office furniture.
…….decorators would go bezerk :-0
A whole wall of these would make a nice unit for organizing a home office.
Back when computers were the size of several cupboards, and came with several cupboards worth of manuals (known as “the orange wall” for one particular manufacturer), I helped strip a decommissioned system, and convert it into a bookcase. For that orange wall, yes.
Google “vaxbar” for another useful system conversion.
That is really cool. Thanks for the heads up!
I bet the toilet paper goes on that old joystick.
This is not how you build an e-book reader.
Yeah, that’s totally about to happen in my garage. Freaking awesome.
I have a much taller case than that in my garage, used for leverage(ie cheap sawhorse part) or a table to spraypaint items. The AT power supply? Plenty of good wires inside for homebrew electronics projects.
I don’t know when Microsoft bought Ikea but it looks like you can now load off-the-shelf software onto your PC and still have plenty of storage space available.
It’s the “Intel Inside” sticker that really makes it sing.
It really should read “Ink Inside” now.
i like the rifle above it…
They probably used that to put the old desktop out of it’s misery.
Its new its hot, its the intel power wall mounted bookshelf! give it a book and it will hold it! give it your taxes and you’ll go to jail!
I don’t think that this is a passageway to the Internet.
Or Narnia for that matter.
Books are useless so…
Notice the removable data storage devices sitting in the 5.25″ bays!
For TXT files only!
I love it!
Some major geek styling there!
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I’m more curious about the rifle mounted above it
“New for 2010: IKEA’s ‘PDF’ Shelf System”.
reduce, reuse, recycle.
If knowledge is power then I would say the output of the power supply has tripled.
I keep expecting to see Neo walk in, point to a book, and say “I know Foucault”
Better than throwing it in a landfill. Kudos to the kludger.
I’ve used the metal spindles from 3.5″ floppies as jewelry components. Nice and lightweight.
I think this is a Linux system: you mount the volumes (on the wall) in order to access the libraries and (recycling) bin files
The rifle was used to shoot out the Windows
I wish we could do “thumbs-up” on posts, because that would get one.
Haha, good one!
Book case?
The shelf life of this computer is longer than expected.
Wow that computer has 512 mbps (Mega Book Page Space) storage!
Hm, I gave him that rifle. I think I deserve some credits. :p
Still, MAD PROPS!
Have you noticed Squidward?
Wow, good eye! “Bread in a can!”
Grrr. Beat me to it! In any case, this is made of win. I need one.
That’s my son1!!
this is off the wall…. or is it?
I had to look at my case and the picture about a half-dozen or so times, and got my son to verify it as well, but they’re a match!
That is the exact case I’m currently using!!
This is an awesome idea. The sad thing is that my employer still has several computers similar to this running on our production floor.
Wow. Without the mainboard and all that, and with books in them? That’s not sad, that’s incredible.
Great idea. Now I know what to do with all those computer carcases. Already buried a bunch to stabilize sand under a patio, but they seem to multiply.
I always threatened to turn the tower into a hamster cage, the monitor into a fish tank (before flat screens), the printer into a flower pot, and the speakers into book ends. I guess he doesn’t have hamsters?
I wonder why the paperback drive never caught on; perhaps it was the limited storage capacity.
This kludge inspired me to do the same with one of my old machines. Click my name to see the picture.
Hey! Is that a Compaq? I think I have the same model that is in there. I currently am running a server off of it for gaming purposes. The thing is an absolute mess with an onboard graphics card and everything -_- my old Gateway laptop was faster. it has a 1 GHz processor as well. AMD single core. ridiculous, but it gets me by on what I got!
I think when we finally by a new desktop, we know what we’re doing with the tower!!
It’s beautiful. #_#
Squidward stands atop his tower, looks down at this king, and sees all is well.
Ah, old-school Supercases. Those things were a treat to work on and build systems with after the long, dark years of AT cases with sharp metal everywhere.
Is that a McMaster-Carr Catalog sitting in the 5.25″ drive bay? It’s got the signature yellow cover, but I can’t quite tell.
No one else has noticed the 1985 Atari-compatible WICO joystick sitting on top of that thing??
YES! Those were awesome. I still have mine. I guess that makes us the biggest geeks here, though, doesn’t it?
that is actually really cool.
Oh I am SOOOOOOOOOOO doing this when my current chassis no longer meets my needs. Thing is, I’m gonna have to step it up a notch. My case has a pair of LED tubes on the front bezel, and a UV tube on the inside… need to figure out how to get those to run off of some sort of (probably kludged) battery pack. Suggestions my fellow fixers?
You laugh because it’s so old it’s been recycled, but my BRAND NEW computer can’t even hover. That’s something special.
This is the windows version of the MacBook “air”. They took it a little too literally.
Is it me or is squidward on top of that?
Wow, even hanging on a wall it is more useful than a mac. =3
i have the same case
Finally found a way to make that old DOS run more efficiently!