From: Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Help me upgrade my computer
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:07:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: agwbbs.Paul_Trauth.0bzy
Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.

In a message dated Wed 15 Apr 92 15:40, Adw@cci632.cci.com (allen Williams 
wrote:
 AW>  After years of looking down at PC clones and their ilk, I finally
 AW> broke
 AW> down and bought a cheap 286 at a flea market so I could play Infocom
 AW> games. (Infocom, or whoever owns it now, released 20 of their games
 AW> in
 AW> one package for $50 or so. Buy it right now!)
Wimp. This package has been released for other machines, too, you know. I
wish i could scrape together $50 to buy it for my trusty Amiga.

 AW>  So to save face, I have decided that I need to change the 286 from
 AW> its
 AW> boring off-white office camaflauge look to something garish and
 AW> shocking.
A man after my own heart. I *HATE* beige...

 AW>  Some ideas:
[deleted. some good, some silly.]
[i especially liked the "brazil" look. a few ducts might help, too.]

On my desk:
an ancient C64. Case painted gloss black, except for the silly "vents" at
the top, which are candy-apple red. It's just as slow as an ordinary 64,
but it looks a lot faster.

Above the 64, on a shelf, humming away:
my Amiga 2000. Custom-painted with a zebra pattern. Even the drive
face-plates. (although i haven't gotten around to painting the disk eject
buttons) The pattern extends out of sight along the sides and the top. The
shell of the keyboard is similarly painted, with a hand-written 'C=A2000Z'
and my signature where it used to say 'C=A2000'.
the keys however are the usual off-white, stained a somewhat
grottier-looking tan than a virgin keyboard due to lots and lots of typing
with ink- pencil- and pain-stained fingers.

ideas that were discarded before settling upon the simple zebra pattern:
the "illuminated" look. paint lots of overlapping varied mystical symbols
upon the case, including but not limited to: Bob, eye-in-the-pyramid,
symbols for all nine planets, pentagrams, septagrams, and whatever else i
thought of.
the "transparent case" look. paint an exceedingly realistic picture of what
you'd see if there was no case there. problems being that i'm not good
enough to pull it off, and that i'd have to alter it whenever i bought new
add-ons.
the "mural" look. paint a mural on it. subject varied.

one major reason for going with a simple, nearly abstract design was the
shape of the front. there's an annoying slight step to the almost-flat
front, apparantly there for no other reason than to annoy machine painters,
perhaps also a mis-guided attempt to add a touch of "style" to the case.

a friend who used to have an a500 had an amusing paint scheme: his case was
matte black, except for a large red icosceles triangle going through the
area around the keyboard. he painted his modem red, as well. he's since
moved up to a boring beige 2000, we still haven't settled on a design for
his machine...





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