Treat! (Nik)talking about wild product design, I recently stumbled upon a british eBay offer that I don't wanna keep from you.
RIGHT ANGLE COMPUTER
[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD@NikTheDusky hmm its only fifty quid, but then the postage is another ten
not sure ill get it. cool design though.
@NikTheDusky wait hang on it looks like it runs ide internally. maybe i could use this to repair the og xbox
@CauseOfBSOD wait what, how do you come to that conclusion? because you need an IDE HDD or optical drive? :D
@NikTheDusky yep, need to handle IDE stuff, including ATA security lock (something that my USB bridge that I already had cant handle)
@CauseOfBSOD oh, I see, you just need a computer with native IDE, not to harvest parts from it, but to actually use it. Go for it! It's not a bad value – if it works! Keep in mind that it's sold untested and many of these early 2000s mainboards and power supplies are affected by the capacitor plague. And remember that international shipping sometimes sucks.
@NikTheDusky just like the xbox itself then.
international shipping? its domestic! I live in London, the seller lives in Manchester. Thats about 260km according to wolfram alpha.
@NikTheDusky My main problem is finding the time to actually fix it. Its not been a priority lately.