Given how I typically spend this particular time of day writing and working on my stories in general, I've often found it annoying that my Surface RT has a non-backlit type cover.

My solution? Cobble together a USB-based LED frontlight for the keyboard.

All it took was one hour of my morning, an old USB cable, two paperclips, and light-up party balloons that deflated ages ago.

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So, you know that computer I have set up for archiving 5.25" floppy disks? That's my testbench system that I use whenever I need to set up a quick PC for something.

Specs:

• VIA C7 @ 1 GHz (Equivalent to a Pentium 4)
• PCI-PCIe(x1) converter supporting a Geforce GT 610 (main GPU)
• 1 gig of RAM
• 64 gig SD card in an SD-to-IDE adapter as an SSD-lookalike
• Integrated VIA audio

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I'm currently collecting the resources to install a modded version of Windows 2000 on that computer, partially because in DOS there's very little support for hardware encode/decode of video, and partially because I can once again run Google Chrome 34 and troll Fimfiction like I did when the system had XP installed.

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This particular GTX 2070 prototype is a very late sample, with the main (and possibly only) differences being that it has "GTX" instead of "RTX" on its cooling shroud and is missing the "RTX 2070" lettering on the black area between the fans. It's also got an earlier BIOS than retail cards which I've since backed up and uploaded using GPU-Z.

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