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Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan (arstechnica.com)

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You can fit lots of modern hardware inside—and prop your monitor on top.

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[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 36 points 3 days ago

It's really too bad they couldn't have made the bay covers either plain or actually look like a floppy drive.

So close, and yet, so far.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If they're removable, could just put actual floppy drives in.

EDIT: Oh, they're flip-down drawer covers rather than fixed panels. Well, still might be removable.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

A drawer option would've been sweet. I love my 5.25" drawer. Perfect for flash drives, dongles, extra screws, little screwdriver, or a hiding spot almost nobody would know is there.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Everything is removable with the right tools

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

All I have is a hammer. I was told in the early 90s that it's Hammer time. I was never told of a ceasing of it being Hammer time.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

No no no, it is in fact still hammer time, but there are 26 main types of hammer and countless subtypes

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 3 days ago

I mean even if you could remove them, the problem is that beige is not always the same beige: same problem you had 30 years ago.

The colors would never, at any point, remotely match the rest of the beige, and it'd be nice if a premium product that exists only for the aesthetics, would have just you know, done that last itty bitty little thing so it'd look right (from at least a distance) and be color matched.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Honestly the mismatching beiges just make it even more period correct. At least from how I remember them

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Right??? Also you need a 13 inch monogrome green screen. Like the original game boy......except giant.

.....what? 13 inches WAS giant back then.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I think big was 17 inches, but they were like 24 deep and 50lbs.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago

I bet USB c connections could fit in a floppy drive slot

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