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Title: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: ElPolloDiabl on October 05, 2010, 11:44:22 AM
Here's some pics of it:

http://www.google.com.au/images?q=antec+skeleton&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=2wCrTOSbF8KecfjnqLcE&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=6&ved=0CD0QsAQwBQ&biw=1024&bih=583 (http://www.google.com.au/images?q=antec+skeleton&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=2wCrTOSbF8KecfjnqLcE&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=6&ved=0CD0QsAQwBQ&biw=1024&bih=583)

Google "Antec Skeleton" for more info.
Title: Re: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: the_leander on October 05, 2010, 12:14:16 PM
I've seen it before, it's basically a test rig with a honkin great fan sat on top of it.

A little gaudy for my tastes and I can imagine it'd be an absolute sod to keep clean, not to mention stopping pets/children from cutting themselves or worse.

Damn, I'm getting old. :(
Title: Re: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: AmigaEd on October 05, 2010, 12:17:57 PM
They used to make these in the early 1900s. You would put bread in it and it would make toast.

http://rodrigue500.pppoe.ca/toaster339.JPG

(http://rodrigue500.pppoe.ca/toaster339.JPG)
Title: Re: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: TheMagicM on October 05, 2010, 12:23:25 PM
so those springs take the data back and forth from the CPU to the motherboard, huh?  LOL!!!
Title: Re: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: AmigaEd on October 05, 2010, 12:30:41 PM
Quote from: TheMagicM;583021
so those springs take the data back and forth from the CPU to the motherboard, huh?  LOL!!!


That's the 60Hz front side bus. LOL!
Title: Re: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: fishy_fiz on October 05, 2010, 12:32:21 PM
Hehe, that toaster brings back memories of sitting around the heater with bread on sticks when I was a child. Cant recall why, it was only the 70's, not like toasters werent around, but I used to enjoy it. Was like camping without the inconvenience of camping :)
Title: Re: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: ElPolloDiabl on October 05, 2010, 12:35:26 PM
I love (not) flipping the toast on those early models.
Popping floppy disks in and out on an Amiga 500 must be their computer equivalent.

I saw a documentary on architecture recently, they displayed the first modern kitchen designed and built in 1930 (I think). It was based on a ships galley. Bench, cabinets etc.
Title: Re: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: runequester on October 05, 2010, 05:53:40 PM
That beast looks like something out of Fallout :)
Title: Re: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: ferrellsl on October 05, 2010, 06:09:02 PM
@ElPolloDiabl

That's damned ugly.  Looks like a cross between an Erector Set and the Mars Rover!
Title: Re: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: persia on October 05, 2010, 06:48:50 PM
The thing gets reposted here every few months as somebody new "discovers" it.

Here's a more modded one...

(http://clan-rag.gameparty.net/bitchie/case/Terminator/Terminator%5F655.jpg)
Title: Re: Walker Undead The Antec Skeleton
Post by: JimS on October 05, 2010, 08:17:45 PM
Quote from: TheMagicM;583021
so those springs take the data back and forth from the CPU to the motherboard, huh?  LOL!!!


That's not actually a complete joke... I used to work on terminals back in the 70's that used "magneto restrictive delay lines" as the screen memory. I opened one up once, and it had what looked like springs coiled up in a metal can. I was always having to hike over to the programmers cave with a screwdriver and adjust the tension on those things to keep the screens in sync. And don't even mention the character set "ROM" which was a whole array of individual diodes on one of the circuit boards... ;-)