This was my favorite build from that site: <a href="https://www.mini-itx.com/projects/psu-pc/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mini-itx.com/projects/psu-pc/
Back then, a computer case like that often came pre-equipped with a PSU. To save a little money around the turn of the milennium I'd buy the cheapest case they had (IIRC CoolerMaster was very affordable) and just use the PSU it shipped with.
So it really does look exactly like a spare case and no actual computer present.
Back then this was quite a bit of effort and engineering (especially the bootloader auto detection) to achieve and probably got a lot of wowed faces. Today nobody would bat an eye, you can cram anywhere a tiny PC or even stick PC, and maybe have a single USB-C cable sticking out.
Now you can cram some seriously powerful hardware inside your keyboard (to go back to a form factor really popular some decades ago), or even a larger mouse with enough skill and determination. Stick PCs and tiny PCs made everything so accessible because they're already in a super compact form factor, ready to be crammed into any enclosure with minimal modding.
Hard to be impressed with small builds today considering what a flagship phone is capable of in that tiny package.
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So it really does look exactly like a spare case and no actual computer present.
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Hard to be impressed with small builds today considering what a flagship phone is capable of in that tiny package.
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