Dan Langille
Cat ππ₯ (D.Burch) 
β Back in my day PC chassis were more than just cases, they were furniture!
FediThing 
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....also the internet was in black and white and only available six hours a day.
Vera "mpk" πΈ girly arc πΈ@FediThing @catsalad internet operators had to manually route your packets
spanghero@FediThing @catsalad And only 3 websites
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP π¨π¦πΉπ΄ββοΈπ· πΊοΈ@spanghero @FediThing @catsalad
I do remember when there was a print Internet yellow Pages that listed ALL the websites. DAMN I wish i had kept mine.
@the5thColumnist @spanghero @catsalad
Wait a minute... there were, weren't there? Magazines used to print very long lists of website addresses like a phone directory.
Infrapink (he/his/him)@FediThing @catsalad Wait, you could go on the Internet for six hours? We were limited to half an hour so as not to run up the phone bill.
Luxury.
David Palk#RejoinEU ππͺπΊππ@catsalad The phrase 'over egging the pudding' springs to mind. Luv it!
Aleksandr Koltsoff@catsalad This is certainly a Chassis of Glory!
Mike@catsalad I want one.
Mike@catsalad Cats loved them, and hand cranking a long dvd was great exercise, sigh....
Vic πͺπΊ@catsalad Ah, I remember the endless arguments with my younger brother about whose turn it was to turn the crank, and whose - to play Duke Nukem. If you tell that to the kids these days, they don't believe you!
Jerry π¦ππ¦@catsalad ah yes, the classic hardwood Philco PC case from the 1950βs. Such a thing to behold.
Emil Jacobs - Collectifission@catsalad I'm not even mad, this is amazing.
Ian Douglas Scott@catsalad It's amazing anyone who overclocked those things survived. Back when CPUs were pressure vessels.
EdgeWhoa!!!!
Angela GLove! (in a covetous sort of way)
But coveting only because my steampunk play will be produced in Portland in July and that would look lovely as a set piece.
Thorium@catsalad How do you clean furniture polish from an intake fan. Asking for a friend...
chris overcash@catsalad a Raspberry Pi cluster in one of these would pair well with thatβ¦
Catherine is not complacent@covercash @catsalad what are you doing with my sewing box?
Moving to @@catsalad I unironically, honestly, want to build something like this now. That's incredible!
Brian Ragle (he/him/his) πΊπΈππΌ@catsalad When I am wealthy, no one will knowβ¦but there will be signs.
David Seidl@catsalad In that theme, oh man a decade and change ago I wanted a Datamancer keyboard so badly. I'm glad the company seems to still be out there and making stuff this long after his death. (https://datamancer.com/)
I do wonder if we have to pile our new PC on top of the wood PC when it dies based on generational habits with console. TVs...
woe2you@davidseidl @catsalad I couldn't justify the cost of one of the keyboards, but I did pick up a set of the keycaps for a project a while back.
@woe2you very cool! My hands are crunchy enough I use ergonomic keyboards, so even the key caps remain a dream. I'm jealous!
@davidseidl On a similar note I always used to like Jeffrey Stephenson's PC mods. Archive link cos his site doesn't seem to be up any more.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220214004739/http://slipperyskip.com/
@woe2you I remember those! That's a really cool blast from the past.
Angela Scholder
RiaResists@catsalad
Steampunk PC chassi!
Steampunk PC chassi!
BΕaΕΌej Kowalczyk@catsalad And it has a coffee tray!
danimrich@catsalad even earlier, PC cases came in three different colours: beige, brown and cigarette smoke.
mjdxp@catsalad i do lowkey miss when phonographs and radios would be disguised as tables and other furniture. it meant even if the radio part broke or you no longer had any use for it you still had a table :P
Lorker@catsalad that case is awesome π
Thom, exceedingly pure
Flowermob@catsalad Is that the cupholder?
Brokar@catsalad Really?! Exhaust pipes? Does it run on Diesel? π
Anyway, VERY stylish.
Tor Lillqvist@catsalad Add some bits of gold and it is a Trump Computer.
Sinnamon (despicable arc π)@catsalad Looks like the case a PC would have if it was in The City of Lost Children (1995). π§
n8zug
mirabilos@catsalad oooooh, chic!
Itoshi no FoxyDonuts π³οΈββ§οΈ@catsalad Is this an escape room?
Bytebro π¬π§ πΊπ¦ π¬π±
Kailas Idavanmuzhi@catsalad How long ago was this.. This should become the new normal π fr
Luna chan@catsalad Cool steampunk case.
Stoneface Vimes@catsalad nice bit of steam-punk.
Lotβ΄βΉ@catsalad This is so cool.
a HOT Rubie @catsalad Nice! And the cupholder matches, too!
Christian Gudrian@catsalad β¦ and powered by charcoal.
Piou_Sauvage@catsalad Magnifique !
δΈζ’¦ondreamfur
DB SchweinOh wow. I'd love to see a side shot of that! Someone spent some serious time putting that together!
aproitzWow !! They had PC's in the 19th #Century.
#Amazing #Steampunk.
Mausmaki π§π·π»πͺ@catsalad Amasing! Is it British?
Gondor@catsalad The first days of Windows PCs... oh memories π
Not a Spring Onion@catsalad TBH: I don't miss the steam-driven harddisks.
Every paper on your desk would turn from dry to moist to soggy in half an afternoon.
Every paper on your desk would turn from dry to moist to soggy in half an afternoon.
Amber 
@catsalad steam wasnt an application back then it had its own tank and you had to make sure it didn't get too pressurized
Gabor Major πͺπΊ β@catsalad I like the cup holder (wink wink)