I was out in the warehouse this morning, installing new software on the UPS machine… and during this long, dull process, was looking at the computer itself, an old Gateway, the flat kind you put on your desk and sat a monitor on top… Whatever happened to computers you put on your desk? I've used towers for years…
I think the last time I used a desktop one was back at Digital Research… and even then, those stretched the definition of desktop. To the computer pictured above, add another box (two feet wide, foot and a half deep, half a foot high) for the 20 megabyte hard drive. I didn't actually set a monitor on that behemoth; it was on a side table. I used a DEC VT520 terminal to talk to it. Command line. CP/M 68K. Yeah.
Anyway, I was looking at this thing, and wondering why I didn't just get a new case for Supernova, my gaming computer. Less stuff on the floor. I mean, I have to take it apart anyway to swap some drives between it and Baphomet (Linux non-gaming computer)… not sure I could stop myself from going overboard… I JUST bought that widescreen monitor (LOVING IT!). But a quieter case, smaller, that I could stash perhaps in the living room without seeming out of place…
That Antec case is just so nice… Sigh… I'm really sick. I have CUSS – Compulsive Upgrade System Syndrome. I guess I spend so much time with computers, I want them to look special.
I can't get too upset with myself over my computer hobby; after all, it DID get me my current job. Changing careers from programmer to IT tech isn't the usual path.
