Caterina.net: Wooden Computer

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{ Thursday, May 13, 2004 }

Wooden Computer

Wooden computer
Originally uploaded by caterina.

I've been telling people about this for years, and finally was back in Otivo's offices so I could take a picture. This is a computer that Leanne's dad made for her when she was a kid. He did a really lovely job finishing the wood parts. It was meant to last forever. You attached a black and white TV to it which sat on the platfor there. Isn't it fantastic?

LINK | 12:01 PM | TB

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{ COMMENTS }

How very cool! I want one too. So it can sit beside my vintage emerald green Royale typewriter.

Mala | May 13, 2004 4:32 PM

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I forget where I saw this, but somewhere in Vancouver you can buy a (functioning) wooden keyboard and mouse.

Day | May 14, 2004 3:56 PM

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Yes, there's among others a Swedish company embedding computer peripherals in wood.

http://www.swedx.se/products/products.htm

ijsbrand | May 15, 2004 4:54 AM

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oh, yes, others in recent years have been making wooden computer cases and peripherals, but this particular one was made in the mid-1970's by my dad and pc's with metal or plastic cases didn't exist then (to be replaced by fancy wooden ones). i think my dad made a wooden case because that was the material he had available to put around the fancy new computer chip with 8k of ram.

leanne | May 20, 2004 6:37 PM

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The real thing...

WoodCo | May 25, 2004 3:34 PM

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http://www.woodcontour.com

WoodCo | May 25, 2004 3:36 PM

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Home made PC cases may be de rigeur now, but back in the 1960s a German company called Telefunken, based in Konstanz on Lake Constance, built a MAINFRAME in wooden cupboards. It was called the TR440. It had a mini-version too, the TR86 with 18-bit words.

I and my mates even wrote a COBOL compiler for the TR86. Halcyon daze ;-)

Stu

Stu Savory | May 30, 2004 8:00 AM

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http://www.zaverio.net

this is a real one! italian handcraft. no way for
anyone. this guy make wooden LAPTOPS !!!!

it's *INCREDIBLE* !!!

alanmoss | July 3, 2004 8:34 AM

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