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Re:Talos II Lite by kinsomo on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @12:04PM (#17126948)
> My biggest complain is that it looks too much like a PC by default. I remember the distinctive looks of the beige-and-purple Sun and always colorful SGI boxes.

You could always spray-paint the case Indigo :)

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Re:Talos II Lite by rbanffy on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:41AM (#17134544)
Maybe that would suffice to give the machine a distinctive look. I remember the way the BeBox advertised the fact it had two CPUs by having two prominent LED bars indicating processor usage or how (now talking about supercomputing) the Connection Machines used LED matrixes to show activity.
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