Computers....ahh computers. I spend 38%+ of my day getting paid for working on these things, and another 17-20% of my day spending "leisure time" on computers. I've been working with the mechanical beasts for about 13 years now, though I've been using PC's for 18+. I started with a humble 286 "portable" which consisted of a suitcase that you could clamp the keyboard to the bottom of. It was heavy, slow, cumbersome, and had the loudest keyboard made since Bill Gates decided he was king of the universe, but I loved the thing. After a while working on the portable monster, I upgraded to another 286 in a desktop case with, wonder of wonders, EGA video! I was in heaven. In rapid succession after that came an IBM PS/2, an AMD 486 DX4-100, an AMD K6 200MMX, a Celeron 300A, Athlon 700, Athon 1Ghz, and now, uhm, well, 3 AthlonXP 2800's. I've developed a nasty new hobby: building computers in unusual cases. The first was my "computer by Rubbermaid, which I constructed in a (you guessed it) Rubbermaid container. I did have a good reason for the first; I wanted to make a machine that was more easily portable to LAN parties. The one following that is a computer in a case made entirely of plexiglass that I cut and glued with my own three hands. I don't really have a good excuse for that one. It just seemed like a good idea at the time...