13 Sep
2010
13 Sep
'10
1:44 p.m.
On 13 Sep 2010 at 20:19, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
Making art from computer parts isn't always bad...
back before I got
into collecting, I once found a broken 286 'laptop' on the curb. I
didn't have a machine of my own yet (I think this was when I was in
the 10th grade), so I tried to fix it as best I could; eventually I
found the problem - a corner of the CLCC CPU was chipped off and
missing. I'd spent so much time on it that I didn't want to just throw
it away, so I kept some of the nicer looking components. A few years
later I turned the 286 into a necklace; I still have it.
The epitome of this was the Honeywell animal sculptures made from
parts used as advertising primarily for their H200 systems back in
the 70's. Remarkable stuff and quite beautiful.
I've always wondered if Honeywell simply allowed the sculptor to
wander through the parts crib, selecting anything (regardless of
cost) that caught his eye.
--Chuck