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ADVENTURES IN PC MODIFICATION

g of the month

rig

DONALD ROCK’S

Cinematron

At Maximum PC we’re all about the cutting edge—the

latest and greatest hardware, the never-ending upgrade

path. But on the ﬂ ipside of all that progress is a whole

lot of undesirable, has-been hardware, and it’s cool

when someone comes up with an inventive way to

make use of that stuff. (It all can’t go into the creation

of Grandma’s email machine.)

Donald Rock’s Cinematron combines old PC parts

and discarded steel conduit to form a piece of interactive

modern art. Indeed, the fully-functioning computer, which

runs Vector Linux 5.1 and is primarily used to play mov-

ies, has all the power it needs to inspire awe. Its artfully

balanced, high-tech aesthetic

is just plain cool. And you

won’t ﬁ nd a common mouse

and keyboard disrupting its

character: All functions are

performed via Telnet, with

commands sent from a lap-

top to a transceiver built

into the sculpture.

All of the machine’s

parts, save the optical

drive, reside in this

14.5x7x15-inch cham-

ber. The hard drive, vis-

ible through an acrylic

window in the front,

is a 14-platter, 23GB

Seagate SCSI drive that

Rock got for $5 from a

surplus website.

Look familiar? This box was

once a PSU; now it’s home

to the Cinematron’s power

and reset buttons. What

goes around comes around,

or something like that.

balanced, high-tech aesthetic

is just plain cool. And you

won’t ﬁ nd a common mouse

and keyboard disrupting its

character: All functions are

performed via Telnet, with

commands sent from a lap-

There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to

adjust the picture.... The Cinematron is capable of rendering its

picture (often a scene from the old sci-ﬁ classic Outer Limits)

as ASCII art, with help from the Linux-based MPlayer.

LEDs housed in

the gutted case

of an old CD-ROM

drive signify the

hard drive’s vari-

ous states.

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