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Onyx PC case

A project log for Silly hardware wishlist

Too simple for a project page & which may never happen.

lion-mclionheadlion mclionhead 01/02/2025 at 03:240 Comments

The best PC case ever made was obviously the deskside Onyx.  There are no exact dimensions for it.  Space was a lot cheaper in 1995.  Lions still imagine someday having enough space.  The complete case had a pyramid going all around the base.

https://www.instructables.com/Convert-a-Silicon-Graphics-Server-into-a-Fridge/

A complete base can barely be seen in a refrigerator hack. 

It's unlikely anyone would scrap a vintage SGI to turn it into a refrigerator, nowadays.  The fridge hack was done in 2000-2004.  That was a time when many animals lost a lot of money in tech stonks & were burned out from go fever, so gutting defunct dot com servers was the thing to do.

1 hit showed 24" L, 20" W, 26.5" H

It's certainly plausible.  Sadly, what the internet eventually showed matched none of what young lion remembered of it.  The original memory of it was a wider puck with rounder corners & a distinct grey upper band.   It's possible young lion saw a prototype, but realistically, the memory of it was just poor.

The memory of the monitor was accurate.  It was a strangely primitive, curved shadowmask for the futurism of the puck.

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