[NJARC] I've seen everything now - A PC in a radio-like cabinet +PC History

[John Dilks K2TQN]

Well I've seen everything now - A PC in a radio-like cabinet.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811204039&cm_re=htpc-_-11-204-039-_-Product

(or Search on New Egg "HTPC" scroll down to "Stylish antique red wood 
design box"
nMEDIAPC Red Wood Wood/Steel HTPC 8000 ATX Media Center / HTPC Case - Retail)

or the company itself - http://www.nmediapc.com/

This should give the daring some ideas for incorporating a 'real' 
radio cabinet into a computer.

Clubs: Suggestion - Have a contest category for radio cabinets which 
have found a new home.  Then if the maker couldn't prove he didn't 
ruin a perfectly good radio, for fun we could BBQ him later.  :-)

Now, what are we going to do with the screens, keyboards and mice?

Historic Note: nMEDIAPC claims to be the first to do this, "nMediaPC 
is proud to introduce the first Wooden HTPC Case", but I remember 
firms like EAS, Processor Technology, Cromemco and others using wood 
cabinets as early as 1976 and 1977.  Somewhere I have a 1978 EAS 
cabinet which used to house two 8-inch 256K floppies running CPM, 
made out of Walnut.  It was beautiful and received wife approval, I 
was really living back then!  I bought one box of ten 8" floppies and 
thought they would hold all the software and data I would ever 
have.  After I bought the EAS drives, my wife wanted the "IBM" 
Blue-colored IMSAI out of our den.  So I bought an Ithaca 
Intersystems S-100 computer.  It was not made of wood, but was 
painted dark brown and looked better (to her) than the "IBM Blue" 
IMSAI.  (I still have both computers, but not in the house.)

73, John, K2TQN