front panel display for a modern PC

Chuck Guzis ????????: What did you expect? Ok, I know, I know; boys love to show off their toys and all. Ze blinkenlichten iz zoooooo beeyooteefool! Girls just don't get it! All those computers with all those blinkenlichten on the telly and the movies were really cool, fascinating and hypnotic. Practically every kid--I mean, every boy, wanted blinkenlichten too, right? Besides, in the "Real World", blinkenlichten tell we who love them what the machine is thinking about (or not) at any given moment, right? It's better than having a black box that won't talk to you when it has a problem, if it talks at all. Between the days of the common blinkenlichten and effusively talkative software, there was that period of hell when systems contained very terse code that wouldn't do anything if something went wrong--wouldn't talk, wouldn't run, etc., adn. It practically took a computer psychic to figure out the problem. Besides being sooooooo beeyooteefool, they had a very practical purpose. I think they would still serve a useful purpose, even if it is only on extremely rare occasions. And they are cool and quite retro. Well, you might even be able to turn off the room lights... Something can be done about the first two, though. ??? Not if my wife sees this. == jd