Re: plea for help with

["paul gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

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Don't laugh, I had actually thought of that!! - in the past I've tried:
(with no success I might add) covering the front bezels with black
sticky-back plastic from Homebase (ala Blue Peter!), and hand painting one.
Neither gave satisfactory results (not something I'd want to have on show
in
my lounge anyway). So I sort of gave up on the painting idea before I tried
spraying one - just not confident that the result from spraying would be
that much better than my earlier efforts. - Plus I KNOW these things are
available in black, 'cos at least a couple of manufacturers are now selling
whole black systems... (I just don't NEED to buy a whole PC system)..

Maybe I will give the spraying idea a go (on one of my older CDROM's)....

cheers.

Paul.


>From: Steve Morgan <steve@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: plea for help with "convergence"
product
>Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:37:05 +0100
>
>My other half just read this and said 'why doesn't he just spray it'!
>
>Erm, oh, yes.
>
>Try taking the bezels off a standard CD Rom drive and floppy and take
>it,
>complete with PC case to your local respray shop.
>
>Cheers,
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: paul gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 4:43 PM
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] plea for help with "convergence" product
>
>
>This might be a "little" off-topic, but I don't think its
_too_ far
>out...
>
>I'm intending to build a "convergence" PC (just LOVE those
>buzzwords!")
>
>What I basically want is a state-of-the-art WINTEL PC to live in my
>AV rack in my lounge, along with the hi-fi / TV / VCR's etc.. The
>intention being for it to perform several functions, and replace
>several other seperate boxes:
>
>1) Games playing - replacing the Sony Playstation
>2) DVD movie's - removing the need to buy a consumer DVD player.
>3) Web-TV - via my ISDN line, for browsing, banking, shopping, online
>gaming, TV guide, etc.. AND for accessing by home intranet which will
>be the front-end for my MP3 jukebox.
>4) MP3 jukebox player - replacing my current CD player.
>5) Remote control of other PC's in the house via PC-Anywhere
>6) Possibly some HA control as well??
>
>The existing 33" TV will be used as the monitor, via a S-video
>connection, the keyboard/mouse will be wireless, so only a base unit
>will need to live in my rack. I've already specified most of the
>parts, and already sourced some of them as well. BUT, my main problem
>is this:
>
>I _REALLY_ don't want a beige PC in my living room!! - I'm having a
>pretty hard time sourcing a base unit that's black (I mean really
>black, rather than a sort of muddy dark brown!), and black-fascia'd
>drives to go in it...
>
>So I'd be REALLY greatful if all you helpful guys and gals would let
>me know if you hear about anywhere I can get any of these items:
>
>Black DVD-ROM drive (zone unrestricted, latest 5X / 6X etc.)
>Black CD-ROM drive IDE or SCSI, latest 32X / 40X etc.
>Black ATX (slimline or full) desktop case (not midi/mini/full tower)
>
>I could probably dispense with a dedicated CD drive, if the DVD drive
>gives good enough audio CD playback (dual-pickup?) - the reason being
>that my wife hasn't "quite" come around to the idea yet, so
I've had
>to promise to leave existing CD playback functionality available
>alongside the MP3 jukebox facility.
>
>The idea would be that this PC would be 'always on' - IE available at
>least as quickly as any other consumer equipment, so it'd have to
>conform to the ACPI power-management spec, and the "OnNow"
spec, so a
>mere press of the front panel sleep/resume button gives me a useable
>computer in about 5 seconds, and I'd want to be able to wake it up
>automatically by selecting the appropriate TV channel as well,
>(somehow), so in practice, all I do is pick up my URC, select the TV
>channel number for the PC, and after a few seconds, I see my intranet
>homepage, which has links for all the services offered by the PC....
>
>I'm not in any hurry - I'm planning on using Windows 2000 as the OS
>on this machine, so we're unlikely to be putting it together until
>Q4, so I'd really appreciate it if you could bear this in mind in the
>coming months.
>
>If anyone's interested, my planned spec for this machine is as
>follows: (subject to change!)
>
>Intel P111/500Mhz
>128MB RAM
>10GB  Wide-ultra SCSI disk
>3COM 10/100Mb Ethernet card (running at 100Mb)
>Creative SB Live! soundcard
>RIVA TNT-2 AGP 32MB 3D graphics card with S-video out
>Adaptec AHA2940UW PCI wide-ultra SCSI controller
>5X SCSI DVD-ROM drive. - Black!
>32X /40X SCSI CD-ROM drive. - Black!
>As yet undecided MPEG2 decoder card for DVD-movies (open to
>recommendations!)
>Infrared cordless keyboard/mouse.
>
>Here's hoping someone can help me.
>
>Thanks y'all
>
>Paul Gordon.
>
>
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