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Old Ironsights
10-08-2007, 09:45 PM
All 'yall metal-working types who love your 1800s guns...

How about a proper computer to match?

http://steampunkworkshop.com/images/M19.jpg

:shock:

http://steampunkworkshop.com/lcd.shtml
http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml
http://jakeofalltrades.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/img_0616-2/
http://jakeofalltrades.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/test/#more-7

:mrgreen:
Bent Ramrod
10-08-2007, 10:42 PM
I love it! Does it come with sleeve garters and a green eyeshade?
Old Ironsights
10-08-2007, 11:16 PM
Likely. "Steampunk" is the general term for this "19th Century High-Tech" modding.

Think "Wild Wild West" meets Japanese Animation.

(Actually, there is a fair amount of "Steampunk" Anime'...)
floodgate
10-08-2007, 11:17 PM
I WANNIT! I WANNIT!!!

I'd love a nice Edwardian trope on a basic laptop; I bet Neiman-Marcus would sell a bunch of 'em at $10K a pop.

floodgate
Old Ironsights
10-08-2007, 11:28 PM
This guy made a nice Laptop...

He sells keyboards for $700 to $1000.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg7fVMiwCvY&NR=1

His Home PC: The Nagy Magical-Movable-Type Pixello-Dynamotronic Computational Engine™

http://www.datamancer.net/projects/engine/engine.htm

Maybe "Doc Brown" (Back to the Future 3) can make us rife guys a nice scope? ;)

(Of course, we've got guys here who live by their Tong Tools.... :mrgreen:)
SharpsShooter
10-09-2007, 07:31 AM
That is great! I love it!

SS
Bigjohn
10-09-2007, 06:14 PM
CLASSIC! :-D

John
Old Ironsights
10-09-2007, 06:16 PM
Go good with your avatar too...
Bent Ramrod
10-09-2007, 10:46 PM
I'm glad these kids are getting into this aesthetic. It's been lost in the search for the maximum Bottom Line that there actually was a time when it was acknowledged that technology was an art. Of course, the designer had to care about it. There's a lathe in the Henry Ford Museum with ball-and-claw feet, for no reason than to look nice. All the machinery of that time had an eye appeal about it that the minimalist-boxy or wind-tunnel efficient designs of today absolutely do not have. If you really want to see what has been lost, compare the drawings in Howe's The Modern Gunsmith with the CAD/CAM stuff of today. For utility, nothing can beat what is being done now, but that Depression-era draughtsmanship got the job done and also is a treat for the eyes.