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Some mod-jobs are too cool to overlook and this old school PC set-up certainly qualifies giving a welcome return to the desktop bureau of old. The Sputnik 0667 from Swedish designer Love Hultén is an homage to old wooden hi-fis and looks as if it was spawned from the bonding of a Commodore PET with a Marconi telly. Sputnik …

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  1. LuMan
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    Lovely

    It'll look great next to my VCS2600 Woody!

  2. sebacoustic
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    95% for style

    very nice - until i saw that awful keyhole brass thing. I adore the clean 602 designs and a fine veneer work, but that item is pilfered from a whole different bulky-items rubbish skip.

    Thanks for posting though, i'll forward to my brother who is a furniture- (not computer- ) geek .

    1. John Arthur
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      Agreed

      the brass keyhole is completely out of place on a piece of retro '50s furniture.

      The desktop wallpaper is the Horse's Head Nebula: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eifelsternwarte/2836509256/

      But what is the round thing on the bottom of the keyboard flap? In Swedish it is "Solsystemet" and looks as if it ought to be an astrolabe. Perhaps even a working one. Does anybody know?

    2. John Gamble

      Brass Key

      I was about to make a similar comment. I like how the retro-designers do things in general, but that fascination with breaking the form in order to stick in an awkward brass key just grates.

      Even in the 19th century they had an understanding of this.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    I'll see your Sputnik...

    ...and raise you (rumours of) a black Macbook Air. Now that's innovative design!

  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Absolutely horrendous

    'nuff said.

  5. Colin Miller
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    Flip-down keyboard...

    .. kinda reminds me of the early luggable computers. However, it is very sweet looking.

  6. Anonymous Coward
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    You look upset, Dave

    what is wrong?

    Where is the HAL icon?

  7. Captain Hogwash
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    wouldn't look out of place...

    ...in the original Solaris movie.

  8. Matt Bucknall

    Nice

    ..but can't help feel a trackball instead of a mouse would have looked better.

  9. Bilgepipe
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    Oarsome

    That is made of awesome.

  10. Cameron Colley

    This thing is crying out for Plan 9!

    Only Plan 9 from Bell Labs can do justice to this.

  11. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge

    Nice idea

    but the finish on some of the woodwork seems a bit sub-par for the era it attempts to mimic.

  12. Stevie

    Bah!

    Judging by the flimsy and inadequate stand I'd say this was inspired not so much by Sputnik as by the Apple G4 Monitor's stand, and will likely be just as unfit for purpose.

    I love the wood casing though. Shame it'll end up a pile of matchwood on the floor when someone jostles the table it is standing on after all that cleverness.

    The artwork is primo 60s retro though, down to the horrid orange dyework. Orange and black were popular (and above all cheap) options back then, as I found out when I saw my old (Sputnik-contemporary) vaccination records some years ago.

  13. Dan Price
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    Nice, but...

    ...It looks like he couldn't decide which era he wanted it too look like it's from: the inside and back panel seem to suggest 60s-style G-plan furniture, the big emblem on the front slightly earlier (50s perhaps?) but the bizarre choice of brass escutcheon around the keyhole looks like some awful 1700s-esque thing. surely if he was going for the mid-20th century style a plain brass keyhole fitted flush with the surface would've been better?

    That said, apart from that I absolutely love it. The amount of work and the details that've gone into it are truly amazing, even down to the ventilated hardboard back with vintage-style graphics on it.

  14. Ken 16 Silver badge
    WTF?

    special

    very...special

  15. Some Beggar
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    "a homage" not "an homage"

    Homage is pronounced hommidge. It's been an English word for at least seven hundred years. If you want to pronounce it like the French "hommage" then perhaps you should ... I don't know ... move to France.

  16. Anonymous Coward
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    Nevermind the bollocks

    If the creator ever reads these comments, don't listen to all these nitpicky 'tards. It's great work and looks beautiful.

  17. Mark York 3 Silver badge
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    TARDIS

    Why am I thinking Fourth Doctors TARDIS secondary console room or the Eighth Doctors console room & how it would look quite at home there.

    Still no TARDIS icon - I'll get me coat & grab the lapels.

  18. BozNZ
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    Not quite complete

    We need a steampunk OS now

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