[cfgeeks] Weird and Wonderful PCs

[Kevin P. Inscoe]

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syberghost wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Jonathan Damron <j at damronplanet.com> wrote:
>> http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/02/weird-and-wonderful-pcs/
> 
> I've never had anything that cool, but I ran my BBS for several months
> back in the '80s on a motherboard that didn't match a single hole in
> the proprietary case, so I had it duct-taped in place with a wire
> running from one of the grounding pads to the case.  (No fair making
> fun of me for whatever the actual term for what I'm calling "grounding
> pads" is.)
> 
> A buddy bought the parts to mount his motherboard in the wall with all
> the ports sticking through it, but his mom nixed the plan when I
> showed up with the jigsaw.

I have done that as well. I had a 486DX66V I upgraded the mobo and
somehow the holes didn't quite fit on a tower so I almost considered
re-drilling the one-off holes but thought better of that and instead got
some plastic anti static bags from work and taped it to the underside of
the board and wired it in place. Still works today. Well ok it's sitting
in the garage but it would boot up (I think).

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