this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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Utter tangent:
Has anyone ever made a PC that ... has to be pull started like an older ICE lawn mower?
EDIT: I've jerry rigged together spare PC parts into a make shift media center pc... that used the box my roomate's Xbox 360 came in as a 'case'... you had to actually jump the right two pins on the mobo to start it, rofl.
...we used a paper clip that had a bit of colored rubber or epoxy coating of some kind, wire stripper stripped that off of the last inch or so.
But a lawnmower start pc ... that would be even funnier.
I imagine having an internal combustion engine that close to computer components would make for a very short lived computer.
I mean... yes, lol.
It wouldn't be the entire engine, just the starter.
But even that would probably not be a good idea.
I just figure someone must have made some kind of custom build that outwardly resembles a pull start, just as a novelty thing, but in actuality just... sends the power on signal to ... whatever that particular pin board on the mobo is called.
It wouldn't be hard to take a motor or something, hook a string to it, and then use the electricity it outputs to activate the power button. It's more effort than I'd put into something that's actively inconvenient, but you could make it if you want probably.
Less useful things have been designed:
lol