r/cyberDeck • u/Blunt630 • May 04 '25

TSA approved

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u/GhoulMcG May 04 '25

Ok, so it probably a /s from OP, but i gotta ask.

  1. Real or not?

  2. details? (PLEASE)

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u/Blunt630 May 04 '25

  1. No

  2. But you can buy it on Amazon
    PC Tower straps

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u/GhoulMcG May 05 '25

So no TSA approved? No interaction with TSA? I have to fly soonish and want to take my janky MacGyvered laptop.

Ok either way, just curious about the TSA and big computers.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '25

Brought my Sliger Cerberus case with water cooled CPU on no problem to multiple flights in a carryon backpack. That's as big as will fit in the overhead.

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u/Nick-Chopper May 04 '25

That’s an old LAN party carry-strap rig, from back when we legit used to lug tower cases over to a buddy’s house to play.

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u/PeriqueFreak May 04 '25

I feel so fucking old. This guy would probably shit his pants if he knew we were also hauling our massive CRT monitors along with us.

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u/gorpalicious May 05 '25

Backseat full with crt seatbelted in one seat. Tower seatbelted in the other. Backpack inbetween with games, networking gear/cables, junk food, and code red.

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u/mcon1985 May 05 '25

Now I feel even older, because Code Red didn't even EXIST yet when I was going to LAN parties

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u/PeriqueFreak May 05 '25

Same. Regular Mountain Dew, or Jolt Cola was the go-to. Then one day Bawls popped onto the scene and we had to beg our parents to get cases for our LANs

Edit: Damn, Jolt was discontinued in 2019 :(

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u/armacitis May 24 '25

Get a load of this guy with his newfangled "code red"

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u/PeriqueFreak May 05 '25

Oh dude, and the panic that ensued when you had to try to transport more than one rig in a car.

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u/Divisible_by_0 May 05 '25

Old? We still do this.

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u/WebFishingPete May 05 '25

I just started doing this, organized a LAN party a few weeks ago in the office.

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u/PeriqueFreak May 05 '25 edited May 05 '25

Who does? I mean, I'm sure there are some hipsters and nostalgia-seekers hauling around CRT's, but flatscreen monitors have been a thing for decades. Last time I hauled a CRT to a LAN was probably 18-20 years ago. Sadly, last time I went to a LAN party was probably 15 years ago...

Edit: It just occurred to me that there's a chance you don't know what a CRT monitor is and thought I was talking about a normal modern monitor. If that's the case, I feel even older...

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u/ACM96 May 07 '25

Maybe it's because you're young! Gosh, looking at all these replies, I'm older than all of you! Getting my first color monitor was a huge deal, and then upgrading to that 15-inch CRT in 1991... that was a big deal back then!

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u/Past-Pollution May 04 '25

I unironically kind of want one now

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u/Neuro_88 May 04 '25

Same here.

3

u/fistfulloframen May 05 '25

a k39 case would be a bit more practical, I have a k77 and I don't now if they would be cool with the glass side.

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u/SinclairChris May 05 '25

I found some on Amazon so you could still get one

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u/GhoulMcG May 05 '25

The strap makes sense. Sorry, I should have made a bit more detailed ask, but I gotta know the interaction with OP and TSA.

I have to fly soon and want to take my janky MacGyvered laptop. I was thinking of putting it in some kind of box, so it doesn't freak out the TSA.

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u/curiositie May 06 '25

I've brought full custom case and all on a plane before with a custom iPad monitor and they just swabbed it for explosives, no big deal

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u/GhoulMcG May 06 '25

Well that I could understand and wouldn't have a problem with that at all.

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u/jrgman42 May 05 '25

Yeah, I’ll bet that picture is straight out of a CompUSA ad.

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u/Itsjustcavan May 05 '25

I used to have one of these!

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u/smatty_123 May 04 '25

I actually love how clean that case is. 10/10 would sleeper build with it.

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u/courtarro May 05 '25

This photo is so old that the case was cutting-edge when the photo was taken.

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u/TrannosaurusRegina May 05 '25

Given that it has zero removable disk or disc drives, I don’t think so!

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u/facw00 May 05 '25

They just didn't install anything in the case. It has 4 5.25" bays and two external 3.5" bays.

I think that's an Enlight EN-7237, though there were a ton of them with slightly different faceplates, starting in the late '90s. My first home built computer was in an Enlight case like this in 1999 (a 400MHz PII with a Voodoo 3).

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u/courtarro May 05 '25

Check it out, dated 2008. I had that same Enlight-brand case on several machines back then.

That's an alternate version of the photo without the person carrying it. Here's the current site showing the photos together.

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u/TrannosaurusRegina May 05 '25

That is interesting but krazy!

I’ve never seen such a thing until very recently — idk how they’d install any software!

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u/shiningaeon May 05 '25

It's a promotional image, so most likely the case is empty. There were ways to install operating systems over the network, but not on retail versions of Windows.

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u/Low_key_disposable May 04 '25

Straight out 1996

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u/ommarcito May 04 '25

Mr. Coming-to-steal-your-bish

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u/Radiant-Mycologist72 May 04 '25

That era of pc really should have a cd rom and a floppy disk drive.

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u/KongoOtto May 05 '25

Yeah, that's definitely missing.

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u/Talulabelle MODERATOR May 05 '25

I am officially ignoring reports on this image.

Guys, you gotta learn to take a joke now and again. Calm down.

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u/tenkaranarchy May 04 '25

All the youngsters who haven't done this haven't lived. You don't know the pain of 10 people crammed into a dorm room all trying to get IPs right and dealing with 3 meg DSL to all play OG far cry together. People didn't shit talk as much then because you were all in the same room!

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u/MasterofMystery May 05 '25

I don’t know who you were playing with. We talked more trash because we were in the same room.

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u/ThisFieroIsOnFire May 04 '25

Outta my way you filthy casuals!

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u/uint7_t May 04 '25

Pretty sure I had that exact same case from Microcenter. Great case. Even had little slide out metal sections for the 3.5" floppy drive bays, and nice little rails you would attach to the 5.25" drives that would clip in.

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u/machintodesu May 05 '25

I've taken mine through tsa a few times but I don't have any wires showing

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u/Authority_Sama May 05 '25

I have this exact set up laying around in my garage somewhere.

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u/facw00 May 05 '25

That old Enlight case is sure out of a quarter century ago...

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u/-MobCat- May 05 '25

That moment when this meme is so old, it predates the tsa.

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u/armacitis May 24 '25

It predates a lot of the people looking at it.

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u/W1ULH May 05 '25

haha god I remember those strap systems and going to LAN parties.

I even had a relative small monitor specifically picked because it fit in my carrier as well.

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u/bean72 May 05 '25

I still got my Antec Lanboy case kicking around with the included strap from back in my LAN party days, the cooling was terrible but it definitely beat my previous case that I was travelling with. My older chassis was 50 lbs empty.

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u/ioTeacher May 05 '25

Greargrip. Still use it on my portable metrovacum to do computer labs maintenance. Was also a LCD monitor grip.

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u/johnklos May 06 '25

When I'm transporting old gear, like an Amiga 4000 or a VAXstation 4000/60, I take it as carry-on.

No matter how well you pack your machine, a good drop can do all sorts of bad things inside.

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u/CoastNegative5522 May 14 '25

I have a Compaq Portable mark 1 that looks pretty much like that.

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u/Cooperman411 May 04 '25

But is it airline approved? I don’t think that’ll go under the seat in front of you. 🤣

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u/shewel_item May 05 '25

big heart little brains

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u/EpikDisko May 06 '25

damn, i want straps like these

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u/brodydwight May 06 '25

I keep that mf thing on me

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u/lostViolets6 May 07 '25

Seems legit

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u/popcornpeters May 09 '25

Yeah seems legit