You can fit lots of modern hardware inside—and prop your monitor on top.
FINALLY! A return to sensible PC design!
…I’m going to put a raspberry pi inside.
It’s a little too tongue in cheek with the faux disk Bays. I’d rather see something that takes the 80s asthetic but modernizes it a bit. Still a roomy easy to work on case that pays homage to the esthetic rather than kind of mocks it.
I can sell you one with real floppy drives!
Yeah there was a lot of really nice design going on at the time. This looks like the discount cases from the early 90s clones.
Needs more stickers peeling off.
Has it got a turbo button that just switches a light on?
Be like my smart friend and put fridge magnets on it
The turbo button actually slowed your PC down to be able to play old DOS games.
I’d love to see something like this in a tower format, and with regular 5.25" bays with faceplates rather than these faux floppy drives.
I’d pay a somewhat unreasonable amount for that.
I hope the fake floppy drives are just covers for external 3.5" bays. Maybe something hotswapable even
Something like a 5 ¼" archival SSD would be really cool. Just a solid storage chonk, that you can forget in a drawer.
Pipedream, I know.
SSDs are not suitable for long term storage. Modern consumer grade SSDs are only rated for 1 year of data retention without power. Only SLC flash is suitable for long term storage, but those are very expensive and low capacity.
Does it really have plexi/glass side/top? Why on Earth?
Why not?
It’s ugly AF and totally breaks the concept. At least that’s what I think about it.
I’d much prefer to have beige painted steel and some rail mounts on the side. Would totally swap one of my servers into that chassis.
finally, an NEC PC-108
It’s just not quite yellow enough, esp. on 1 side where’s it’s been too close to a window… otherwise, yeah, bring back beige
That was the first thing I thought of, all the asymmetric yellowing from exposing the plastic flame retardants to UV light.
With a preserved “shadow” of the keyboard
Just keep in mind the longer you have one the yellower it gets
Kinda glad to see this, I’d love to get a beige keyboard and tower, I mean the black looks cool, sleek, and futuristic, but… I just want something with more style and class.
For the record I’m talking about computers, not people, I just realized how racist that sounds out of context.
Never would have thought about racism, honestly :D
But such a care is something to admire
Then just say “something” not “someone” if you’re talking about things and not people. There’s no need to create unnecessary problems.
ah sorry that was a typo
I think black irritates me less.
That said, I’d really like to have a fat-fat beige (maybe darker beige) laptop with a sensible keyboard (not one that can be heard from across the street, but one that still feels like one), which you can disassemble without even unscrewing anything (maybe a couple of bolts you don’t need a screwdriver for), with enough space inside to put anything, and with a bloody antenna port and a transceiver.
It also should survive falling from my table a few times a month. And have water protection good enough for it to be normally usable at countryside during rain. Being outside.
Should have an AMOLED display or something like that.
A trackball.
And, of course, it should cost not more than MacBook Air.
The beige color here would help one really feel that this machine fucks.
I’m joking really (not in the part where I say I want that).
With this design you have a few fans closer to your ears. That will also sound retro. Not 100 percent convinced.
I would totally use a retro style beige case for my next build…
I just recently adopted an old gateway PC with this intent in mind. I’m excited about it.
I always wanted a beige tower big enough to need wheels.
The “and prop your monitor on top” thing: I kinda wish there were more modern PC cases that could stand being horizontal. Most are designed to be towers.
I’ll wait for the beige tower
Oh no, I was really happy having thought we had moved past the beige 😬
But why into blue LEDs?
Because blue LEDs are a MIRACLE, dammit!
Black is the new beige.
