But does it go 'peeoooowwww' when you turn it off?

[major_clanger]

As a Boringly Evangelical Mac Convert, I suppose I ought to go on about how boring most PCs look. Of course, the casemod community would agree with me on that, which is why they come up with machines like Orac 3.

OK. That's what a computer ought to look like.

Yes, the green liquid is coolant...

MC

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Eat your heart out, custom car community!

[robthefish.livejournal.com]

Oooh that is pleasing to the eye isn't it :-)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

OK. That's what a computer ought to look like.

Hell yes!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

As case mods go that's comparatively minor - see http://www.ahleman.com/ElectriClerk.html for someone who's modded a Mac as one of the computers from the film Brazil. Somewhere out there I've seen pictures of one based on the Cthulhu mythos.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Yes, but this one looks like it would be more useful on a day to day basis. And still very, very pretty.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

So what OS does Orac use?

Checking the primary sources, we find that Orac is an incredibly powerful computer, with a user-interface which can be charitably described as "quirky". It doesn't do so very much for the user, does strange things for no apparent reason, and seems to have no inbuilt concept of security.

Orac is obviously a Windows machine.

No wonder Avon resorts to power-cycling the beast so often.