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If you replace each and every part except for the case, are you "turning an Aptiva into an i7" or are you just using an old case for your computer?
It is somewhat wild to me that PC towers are still a thing. So many other tech products have had significant form factor reductions in the past ~40 years yet gaming PCs have largely remained unchanged. (I understand we've had massive increases in computing capabilities, especially around 3D graphics and the power and cooling required for them.)
When it first came out I was a big fan of the look of the inwin d-frame, but looking at it today I'm not sure its as fit for purpose as a $100 off the shelf box from corsair or whatever.
For those into this, r/sleeperbattlestations on Reddit is centered around such conversions.
"If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make Imgur work." :-| Thank you, HN, for being usable without JS.
I have not disabled JavaScript, but imgur never loads on mobile for me.
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I have not disabled JavaScript, but imgur never loads on mobile for me.
Yup. And when I open it in an a little outdated Firefox-based browser, there's just nothing but empty background.
Unfortunately this doesn't apply to collections of images.
If you replace each and every part except for the case, are you "turning an Aptiva into an i7" or are you just using an old case for your computer?
I felt that way until I saw what he did with the floppy drive. Best part of the build in my opinion.
I have an old Aptiva 486 DX2 66 Desktop model waiting for me to try to recover whatever can be recovered from the hard drive. It was our first PC style computer and we used it a lot . Fun facts: - newly booted it could run AutoCAD on the standard 4MB - of course with a giant extra 8MB it flew and was only limited by us kids knowing nothing - it had suspend/resume (!) If you hit the power button ut turned itself off a…
I had one of these as well. I don’t remember what happened to it, but last time I interacted with it was probably in 2005 or 2006. I was trying to get some MP3s off the thing (I couldn’t find them anywhere else). It was running Windows 95, so no USB. It just had a 28.8 modem, so no transferring it over the network. I ended up using WinRAR to split each file across multiple floppy disks, so I could join them back toge…
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For something kept x86 I'd have a tough time resisting something like the classic IBM PS/2 with its giant red flappy power switch out front. Like https://dfarq.homeip.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IBM-PS-2... or if there were tower variants with the same style power switch
It would be incredible if someone came up with a 3D-printable IBM 5100 RPi build.
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See the GP's comment about SGI- SGI cases were still some kind of box or tower, but usually with curvy accents and bright colors at least. Otherwise, I wish I had managed to pick up a NeXT when they were not as rare as they are now. Apple of course didn't make any regular-looking towers or desktops while Steve Jobs was in control. Sun tried a bunch of different form factors in the Sparcstation line, but they were gen…
The PCjr was a pretty good looking pizza-box case, much nicer than the 5150 IMO.