Comment by geon
10 hours ago
Very impressive to pull off such a compact build in 2003!
I built a Shuttle xpc cube in 2008. I though that was tiny. I specifically used a laptop hard drive to reduce noice.
I think it was this exact model: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/s/o2HKpeLmrA
It was my firts step away from windows. I ran ubuntu on it a couple of years until I switched to macos to do ios dev.
Especially since the systems of the time used wide ribbon cables to connect the hard drive & CD-ROM.