On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:42:19PM +0100, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> > I know several people who seem to have no problem dropping furniture
> > in favor of Good Iron, _provided_ the iron looks or smells good enough
> > for a livingroom or bedroom :)
>
> You know you are a VAX geek when you realized that you need no furniture.
> Your computers just work as well. ;-)
> (inspired by http://world.std.com/~bdc/projects/vaxen/index.html)
>
> > (no, not me... I prefer the soft couch.. ;-)
> Put a pillow on the VAX?
> Really. A BA123 with a pillow can be a very nice place to sit.
It is fairly easy to incorporate operational VAXen as furniture. The
deskside servers in particular work very well as end tables for sofas
and chairs. Some examples of these being the MicroVAX-II in BA123, the
MicroVAX 3600 in BA213. I've had several scattered about the house at
various times and they blend in fairly unobtrusively. The casual vistor
to my home will never even realize they're computers. However, most
people did tend to notice the large rackmount MicroVAX-II in the kitchen
were there should've been a refridgerator.
At one point I remember discussing the idea of arranging four MicroVAX-IIs
in BA23 enclosures to act as supports for boxsprings and a matress to
make a bed. The two configurations considered were along the lines of
the following (imagine you're viewing the bed from top down through a
transparent mattress, the diagonal segments represent the MicroVAX-IIs.)
A B
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|/ \| |\ /|
| | or | |
|\ /| |/ \|
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For stability and aesthetics, configuration "B" seemed like it would
be the best choice. The front panels would be facing outward with the
power source(s) located in the center of the space beneath the bed.
Now... given the notoriety of the faulty power harnesses present in the
earlier BA23 boxes, the safety is a bit suspect. It would probably be
wiser to use the sturdier BA213 based systems, or at least I'd recommend
mounting a smoke detector on the box springs.
-brian.
Received on Sat Nov 30 2002 - 15:00:01 GMT