# I want this computer... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268 "2002-04-01T21:09:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/1 "2002-04-01T21:09:57Z")
I want this [Hobo Computer](http://www.g-news.ch/articles/nhp200nc/). …isn’t it just [wicked cool](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/SterlingNorth/poller.html)? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/2 "2002-04-01T21:50:15Z")
That thing is rockin’. I am sitting here trying to come up with a way to build a computer case to go with my 1760 colonial house (Shaker style maybe?) and he come up with this thing. I wouldn’t dismiss it though. Much less creative and uglier stuff than that wins international design contests all the time. He should enter. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/3 "2002-04-01T22:25:41Z")
Geez Louise, Windows users really have no taste… ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/4 "2002-04-01T22:55:45Z")
I’ll take a pile o’ foam over a glorified desk lamp any day, pal. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/5 "2002-04-01T23:20:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shagnasty \* > \*\*That thing is rockin’. I am sitting here trying to come up with a way to build a computer case to go with my 1760 colonial house (Shaker style maybe?) and he come up with this thing. I wouldn’t dismiss it though. Much less creative and uglier stuff than that wins international design contests all the time. He should enter. \*\* see [http://www.overclockers.com/articles154/](http://www.overclockers.com/articles154/) or this [http://ggeros.home.nexvs.net/captainchest.htm](http://ggeros.home.nexvs.net/captainchest.htm) or this [http://www.fast-mhz.com/casemods/index06.shtml](http://www.fast-mhz.com/casemods/index06.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/6 "2002-04-02T03:09:02Z")
Compared to the “Marshmellow Computer” (my new name for it), those computers look normal. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/7 "2002-04-02T03:40:15Z")
**Hamish’s** and my former roommate Moishe just moved back in, and he brings with him (or will, eventually) a box he plans to use as a network hub, or firewall, or something of the sort (I don’t know exactly what the plans are) to link our three computers up. It comes to us with the name “Priscilla.” Of course, being three gay men, we are going to paint it hot pink and glue a silverspangled high-heeled shoe to the top of it. How could we not?! ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/8 "2002-04-02T22:19:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > I’ll take a pile o’ foam over a glorified desk lamp any day, pal. 😃 I’ll take a glorified desk lamp over a gigantic marshmallow turd any day, buddy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/9 "2002-04-02T23:10:49Z")
> [@](#): > > …glorified desk lamp… I dunno, I really like the mac that introduces the Pixar logo. It’s got character. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/10 "2002-04-02T23:25:57Z")
You think that’s nuts, check out any page from this place - [Bluesmoke Case Mods](http://www.bluesmoke.net/viewGallery.php?id=c36). I posted about this place a while back, but some of the stuff over there still amazes me. I mean, the amount of time and energy some of these people have put into these things is truly astonishing, in any number of ways. A couple of my favorites… [Case #134, second from the top](http://www.bluesmoke.net/viewGallery.php?id=c9) [Case #159, towards the middle](http://www.bluesmoke.net/viewGallery.php?id=c11) They used to have one where a guy had built a computer in the freezer compartment of his stand-up fridge. Alas, I can’t find it now. Poke around the place, maybe you’ll find it. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/11 "2002-04-02T23:46:48Z")
Thank you astro! Something like that is exactly what I had in mind. I am seriously considering building one of those case. I like numbers 1 & 2 the best. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/12 "2002-04-03T03:58:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > I’ll take a pile o’ foam over a glorified desk lamp any day, pal. 😃 Oh, hush. We’re supposed to take seriously the aesthetic considerations of a guy who admits he liked Episode One? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/13 "2002-04-03T04:55:50Z")
I just had a thought: what about taking all the components out of a computer case and suspending them individually from some kind of rack on the ceiling? A little constellation or cloud of computer hardware, always expandable, with little in the way of cooling issues. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-this-computer/101268/14 "2002-04-03T21:49:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > I just had a thought: what about taking all the components out of a computer case and suspending them individually from some kind of rack on the ceiling? **Danger: Falling Hard Drive Zone**