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  • Very impressive to pull off such a compact build in 2003!

    I built a Shuttle xpc cube in 2008. I though that was tiny. I specifically used a laptop hard drive to reduce noice.

    I think it was this exact model: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/s/o2HKpeLmrA

    It was my firts step away from windows. I ran ubuntu on it a couple of years until I switched to macos to do ios dev.

    by geon
  • Just last night I won an auction for a dual Pentium III supermicro setup with 1GB of memory. To relive this era of computing, including simulating my high school network by deploying Netware in a lab.
    by whalesalad
  • Just a PSA for those that skim, the most fun part of the article is the last page. Not posting spoilers although they can be found on this page.
    by nottorp
  • The final embellishment of making it automatically "dual boot" between XP and Red Hat Linux is a very nice touch.
    by Terr_
  • Sounds like a fun project and very cool for the nostalgic people (like me).

    A bit off topic, but I also loved the fact that the website remains like an antique website from that era (I know the article is from 2003 but the design is clearly not "modern"). I am going to say something probably stupid, but I feel there is a correlation between old/vintage design = good content.

    by 101008
  • Wow I remember this being covered in Custom PC, a magazine in the UK.

    I emailed the author to get the modified bootloader source code that he mentions at the end to allow the dual boot between XP and red-hat via a hardware switch. It was magic to me at the time as a 13 year old! I probably still have the code somewhere.

    There was something special about Mini-ITX machines at the time, nothing was that small.

    by naggie
  • I remember being very impressed by the combined daftness and ingenuity in this and similar builds, to the point that I'm disappointed by the 3D printing community for its lack of imagination in computer cases: there are a great many options for mini-ITX boards, RPi's and their ilk, but for the most part that are just cases, or mini-racks, or open test rigs, with little or none of the imagination that brought us things like this and the infamous PHKL (https://web.archive.org/web/20011212120420/http://www.exonom...).
    by dspillett
  • This was my favorite build from that site: https://www.mini-itx.com/projects/psu-pc/
    by projektfu

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