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.
Now I know what you must be thinking right now and now this does not suck like every other fan made video. These guys are gamers…Hard Core Gamers. They know their classic and newer Nintendo games and characters. The actors in this are really that…Actors.
Let me paint a picture for you. Think of Sin City, the movie not the comic. Remember how dark and seedy it was? Think of gang violence with drugs and sex and murder. Now you have a vision of what this series is all about. It is set-up in a 9 part mini-series. Yes, Mario and Luigi are the main characters but thank God they do not have the annoying overkill accents. Luigi and Mario sell Drugs, Mushrooms, out of their home. There are 4 Mafia Dons that run the city, Princess Peach is in charge but is sleeping with Mario and Luigi without Mario knowing.
Man This thing has it all! After watching the first 16 minute video I was hooked. Each video is around 14 minutes long and worth every minute of it. Hit the jump below to watch the first 7 of the series. I promise you it is worth it.
Oh yeah…I never claimed to be a family friendly site but I usually keep everything tame and will now include this lovely disclaimer.
You have been warned.
Source: There Will Be Brawl
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.
