* spot tricks out a sparcstation1 <spot> aww yeah. gonna put neon in it. nitrous. <spot> that will make it go twice as fast <spot> can't forget the japanese nonsense decals <spot> kanji is where the biggest boost comes from <spot> cut off those little rubber feet, put in some LOW RIDER feet <spot> hydraulics, subwoofer <spot> and just for show, one of those cylon light bars <dgilmore> spot: damn that thing will smoke everything now ;) <jima> spot: congratulations, i think you found the only way to make an ss1 more of a useless waste of electricity. :D -!- spot changed the topic of #aurora to: AURORA: Our E10000 is bigger than yours. http://www.auroralinux.org/people/spot/e10000/ || Ask us how you can PIMP YOUR SPARC!
There are some sick people out there. The kind of people who spend money to make SPARC machines look, well, modern. For some strange reason, we like those people.
[http://www.ipcress.net/images/html/Ultra5/Ultra5.html Ben Lewis' Ultra 5 mod]
[http://www.rm-r.net/~bri/casemod/ Someone's SunFire 15k mod]
Lesser (but still fun!) mods:
[http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ss5/ SparcStation 5 fan mod] Not cosmetic, but it's probably worth mentioning.
IPX [http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipx/sparc_leds/ power/hard drive/memory access LEDs] and [http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipx/ulti_fan_hack/ case fan] mods
[http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipc/ IPC hard drive LED mod]
[http://www.modware.net/hardware/Krispy%20Kreme%20Sparcstation/KKS1.html An SS2 in a Krispy Kreme box]. Enough said.