While I never had one I remember following the build page, and I was crushed when the price point was far too high for me to even consider getting one. However I did ride around with a carputer for some time before an affordable commercial head unit with CD/MP3 capability became available.
It was an off the shelf IBM desktop in the backseat, powered by an inverter, and controlled by a numeric keypad stuck to the center console with some velcro. Getting music on it required hauling the whole thing in the house, but at the time it felt pretty awesome to have pieced together a solution that worked.
I love this dude’s channel. He covers all sorts of old tech, often obscure stuff.
Also, I love that one of my favorite obscure creators shows up in my feed on my favorite obscure social network. Lemmy is my people. ❤️
I had one. Awesome, until winter and the audio would stutter till the drive was warm. Bumps, road rivets, all ended the drive in a year
Could it play doom?
No, he answers that.
No, but I did have a quakeworld server built to run on it and it did host eight people at the same time.
I remember wanting one of these. Can’t remember why I didn’t get one, but I do remember thinking it was a breath of fresh air as far as car stereos go.
It was probably too stupidly expensive.
~ $1-2.5k usd, the cheapest having a whopping 4 gigabytes of storage.
