beige rant (was Re: IBM 5150 with red case on ebay)

On Sat, 14 May 2016, Tor Arntsen wrote: I think it looks pretty classy. It matches my slide projector. :-) I agree with those who protest the gawdy blue-LED-ridden 'gamer' cases and designs. Those just don't cut it. Personally, I'd go for sustainable-wood, tempered glass, and okay, molded plastics if they are done well and it has an SGI badge on it :-) Inevitably, I'm drawn to designs using metal, wood, glass and other expensive materials that few but boutique computer case makers would dare contemplate. Heh, but now I hear one of my co-workers who is an old DEC expert saying "... back when computers were made out of wood ..." and I think of some that *were* (I can at least see them on the web) and yeah, okay, so I wasn't around in the 60's and 70's. Well, I was in a portion of the 70's but I was considerably occupied with being born and other quite serious matters like house-training and tooth-growing which I believe is a decent excuse for not remembering all of the fine machines back then. One should always take the time to have a decent birth. I figure, if you are going to have a nice interior one has to consider the space a computer rig takes up, even on a KVM. It's going to be a significant feature in the room. If it's not locked up in a cabinet, it's going to be seen quite a bit. Might as well afford the machine as much design consideration as the furniture, if not a tad bit more. I like computers more than (most) furniture. Though I do some woodworking and furniture done right is cool, too. If they can compliment each other, so much the better. Of course, this is all a desktop consideration. Servers, I have a different design sense for (mostly pragmatic). -Swift