Tag Archive: computers


Evil Case Mod!

Filed Under: computers, Science, Technology by Porkschop — 1 Comment
September 23, 2009

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Valerie Beetle, a man from the southern Ukraine handcarved this PC case. It is wood and looks freakin’ sick!  He completely carved this entire case out of wood by himself.  This case is cool for two reasons, for me anyways.  One, It is handmade out of wood.  Something I could never do, I have the patience of a ADHD 12 year old on speed.  Two, it is so dark, evil, and forboding that I absolutly flipped out when I saw it.  Talk about the ultimate in Gothic hardware.  I need to track this guy down, he must build me one…with more skulls.

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Monopoly City Streets!!!

Filed Under: Weird by Porkschop — Leave a comment
September 8, 2009

Monopoly citystreets

OK Folks, it’s ON!!!  Tomorrow, 9/9/09, we get to finally do what we have all wanted to do forever…Take Over The World!!  Muuahahahahah.  Monopoly City Streets and Google Maps have teamed up to bring us a free online game.  Basically it is Monopoly in real time on a world scale.  Your board is the world set to Google Maps.

I recommend being a dink and buying your friends houses then tell them about the game, Thanks JD for the idea.  The race is on!  Oh and don’t forget to collect your $200 as you pass GO.  LOL

Source:  Monopoly City Street

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And we complain about computer prices today?!

Filed Under: Science, Technology by Porkschop — 1 Comment
September 5, 2009

old school computer

I remember having most of this stuff…minus the modem and printers.  I learned how to program in BASIC on the ATARI 2600 with a tape drive to store all the data.  Those were the days, 6 pages of code to make some stupid looking pixel gorilla walk across the screen.  I built my first computer out of an 8086 with a 2400 baud modem.  BBS all the way!!!!  Here is the caption with this picture.

Home computer

(Tribune archive photo)

The cost of setting up a home computer in 1983 was, from left: printer $499, cassette recorder $59, central processing unit $1,000, modem $149 and graphics printer $995.
So the grand total for all of those parts is…$2,702.  Mind you this is for a system where you manually had to boot the damn thing…lol.  There was no BIOS chips back then with memory on them.  Fun stuff.  Check out the jump to see a bunch of other old systems and technology from the hay-day of computers.
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