"Could a Mini ITX board, hard drive and power supply fit into the case of a Beeb leaving all the external connectors?" -- Graham Thompson

Computers At the risk of coming all over Boing Boing (if you'll pardon the expression), this project to put a working PC inside the shell of an old BBC Micro is quite fascinating particular because of the occasions when he had to fall in line with what the original designers had intended:

"I started by taking everything out, leaving just the case which was then cleaned up ready to be refitted. It took forever to figure out where to put everything. In the end the only way of fitting everything in was to try and fit the power supply where the old one was, the DC-DC converter on the far left of the main case area and the motherboard on the right with the connectors pointing to the left. The hard drive I could then mount above the power converter leaving space underneath for the connectors. I then had space down the back and front of the case for the original, external connectors."

But there's also the fact that modder Graham has essentially reconstructed the inside of the computer to do exactly what it was doing in the first place -- running BBC Micro games [via].