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  • Start-up brings "blades" to the desktop

    09/22/2002 1:15:52 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 19 replies · 230+ views
    CNET News.com ^ | September 20, 2002, 12:42 PM PT | Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    Twenty-one years ago, the computer left the "glass house" for the desktop. Now a start-up appropriately named ClearCube wants to send it back.The Austin, Texas-based company is trying to popularize a new vision for office computing where users would still have monitors, mice and keyboards on their desks, but their superthin computers would be neatly stacked in centralized computer rooms--the descendents of yesteryear's so-called glass houses. The contemporary twist involves "blade"-style design, in which thin devices are stacked vertically in racks like books or record albums. Although the blade concept has taken the server and storage markets by storm, ClearCube's...