ITT things that serve no practical function but are awesome because they can and have been done.
to start, i give you RAID on floppy disks.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060412171226/http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm
>>51643220
This thread could go places. Shame I have nothing to contribute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dougISKs2vQ
http://www.homebrewcpu.com/
Not to start some kind of theme, but here's a RAID of iPod shuffles.
>>51643220
Linux will let you do that too, it's software RAID doesn't have fucks to give about what devices you wanna use. Windows won't let you use any removable device.
>>51643220
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu9bQA-UKOU
I've always wanted to try to do one of these
>muy prowess
>>51643394
Yup, my server has a software RAID made up of a stack of USB hard drives.
I want to see if I can mount a network drive and add that to the RAID. It would be glorious.
The "Apple Crate"
Parallel cluster of Apple //e boards.
experimental implementation of RFC 1149
http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149
>>51643371
I've always wondered about the feasibility of building a CPU (within the definition of the term) from discrete components by hand, after hearing that Z80s and 8086s and such had only on the order of 10,000 transistors or so. I guess that's a less tractable problem than I thought.
I'd still build one of those if he were to sell kits for them or something
>>51643609
he did publish full schematics and technical info iirc. as well as an illustrated assembly diary. only took him 3 1/2 years start-to-finish, and I'm pretty sure he had a job. your NEETness could probably do it in a year, 18 months tops.
