Silicon Graphics filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection today – so now might be a good time to check out this old favorite – How To Turn a $175,000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge [via] – Link.
What’s the best way to control your music collection? With a rotary phone, here’s how to make it! – [via] Translated page & Link.
Mark spotted this great chemistry experiment book I heard about, but extremely hard to locate – The scanner/reviewer writes – “Back in the late 60’s this book was pulled from all public libraries and store shelves by the government. It was said that the experiments and information contained herin were too dangerous for the general […]
Running Mac OS X on Intel is so 3 months ago, Brian is running OPENSTEP on a Thinkpad 755C – “No major trickery to get this to work… just installed a SCSI CD-ROM drive into the ThinkPad Dock and did the install. I do have to pass the “rootdev=hd0a” arg when I boot up, though.” […]
Here’s a huge collection (over 100) of vintage desktop and pocket calculators from the 1970’s – [via] – Link. Pictured here – The Kosmos Astro – Link.
Sam writes – “As promised to all of you we ran into at the Maker Faire, here are instructions on making your own retro handsets for your cellphone. I apologize for the delay in posting – but one of you friendly Makers out in San Francisco was kind enough to share the black plague with […]
Iowahawk has an a great post about Turbonique Inc, a company from the 1960’s who wanted to bring jet engines & rocket technology to the consumer market – for cars. “Once upon a time in the postwar, before the advent of EPA and OSHA and the Consumer Products Safety Commission and weenies in bike helmets […]
