[Art]

No...not the old Johnny Cash song but how one can elect to build their computers / laptops very soon if all goes as planned.

http://www.appy-geek.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=1&articleid=57930932&source=digest&tagid=763578&tagname=Samsung

[8pla.net]

I build computers now using spare parts from eBay.
After years of use, my laptop finally died.

So, for $10, I bought the same model bare bone laptop
from eBay, missing a harddrive, and other parts.

Just salvaged the missing parts off my dead laptop and
installed them in the bare bone laptop.   Been working ever since.

[Data]

Amazing, people building their own computers, who would have thought it ?

[Data]

Oh, hang on, apparently humans can build them already, I googled it.

Some guy made this windows 10 computer, it's a bit slow at starting up, I think the valves need to warm up or something but yeah, it can be done already, so I'm confused, not hard with my tiny brain.

[Art]

I've built every computer I've owned since the mid 1980's up until my last one when I simply got tired of doing that task. Plus, my latest choice had pretty much everything I was looking for so why reinvent the wheel (or computer).

This article is about the future where all components are modular, stackable and easily connectable. Yep...so easy, even a human can do it.

Any if you think proprietary components of the past were a major pain you ain't seen nothing yet!!

[Data]

I knew you had it in you Art, to build 

So basically what we are looking at here is a new form factor for low end computers.

I say low end because them small components ain't gona pack the punch of a real computer 

Interesting all the same 

Thanks for posting 

[8pla.net]

The biggest computer I ever built for a business cost tens of thousands dollars. When you're a programmer they tend to get the idea you can do anything with computers. So, I know how to build.   

However, my friends build computers too, only they are much faster than I am.  A few of my friends are professional PC technicians, who swap out computer systems all day long guaranteed on service contracts. 

So they do what I do, only lighting fast, having had a lot more hands on practice.  Once I watched a PC technician friend of mine, rapidly disassemble and reassemble every single component of an entire PC, without slowing down for even a second.

[Art]

Back in the day, a floppy dick drive cost $500. Later a 545 meg hard drive was $500. It held true that the more time passes, the less expensive things become!

Usually true programmers only handled software and not hardware. Hardware people way back used to solder and exchange small components and were electronics wizards. Today, the hardware techs are "board swappers".

Back then a Burroughs B-20 computer system cost more than your average car and we had a massive 20 MEG Hard Drive that we backed up on three 10" tape platters, three times a week. The tape backup unit was the size of half a desk top (about 3' x 2'). That 20 MEG hard drive capacity was shared by three different departments in the organization. Wow! Tripping down memory lane! Now I can carry 120 gigs on a flash drive! 

[squarebear]

You may like this image Art:



It's a 5Mb hard drive being loaded onto a plane in 1956. You could rent it at $3,200 a month.

[Freddy]

I think we should have a caption competition for this one.



Man with forklift : "Righty ho, here's your internet sir, make sure you turn it off in the evenings".

[Art]

"Careful with that, Mate! There's an Entire game of Noughts and Crosses stored on that thing!"