Processor artwork

Because i had a lot of processors and microcontrollers laying around, i made some "artwork" out of the stuff.
I bought a piece of ESD foam and sticked and glued all the stuff onto it.

Partlist:

Microprocessors:

• Harris 80C286, 16 MHz
• Cyrix 80387 math. co-processor clone, 33 MHz
• Intel 80386DX, 33 MHz
• Intel Pentium 1, 166 MHz
• Cyrix Media GXm, 266 MHz
• AMD K6-III, 400 MHz
• AMD K6 2, 500 MHz

 Microcontrollers:

• NEC 8085AHC
• Siemens 80C537, 16 MHz
• Atmel Atmega 8, 16 MHz

The two silver pieces in the middle of the foam are hard disk magnets, holding the foam on the magnet board.
An AMD 600 MHz Athlon slot a was to heavy to be glued on the foam. ;)

HDD storage tower made out of Meccano like parts

The idea was not new, but a few days ago i had the time and passion to make the dream come true.
There are five PATA hard disks mounted in the construction. The construction is quite stable and looks pretty.
I am sure: Gustave Eiffel would like it.
The reason for this construction was the bad hard disk alignment in this chieftech big tower. For SATA it is ok, but for PATA disks the slots are not very well suited.

Unfortunately the system disk of the server died while i was trying to figure out the correct PATA cable and connector assignment. (I had to reconnect the disk exactly as they were connected before the modification)
The system disk was not mounted in the tower - so it was some kind of natural selection not my own stupidy. ;)
Watch the video for the cool sound the disk makes...








p.s.: i found a guy who made a fan holder out of meccano: http://img.techpowerup.org/070507/2.jpg.