Forget tempered glass and RGB, witness the fruits of a cross-country effort to save a 20-year-old Teddy bear PC

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We at PC Gamer have developed a fondness for bears rendered by our computers, be they a party of bears in Pillars of Eternity or the results of putting all your skill points into «bear» in Diablo 4, but what if the computer itself was the bear? Prolific retro hardware YouTuber LGR engaged in a cross country effort to secure just that: a turn of the millennium desktop encased in a giant Ikea Teddy bear.

LGR was alerted by his followers to an LA Craigslist post for the ursine contraption, put up for sale by its creator, Case modder and computing enthusiast Peter Isaacson. Isaacson created the «Bear-a-Byte» for his wife, documented on his personal website via the Wayback Machine. Isaacson hollowed out a now-discontinued «Varlig» Ikea jumbo stuffed bear just enough so it could encase an old PC tower, then coated the front plate with some of the leftover fur just for good measure.

LGR viewer Charles Lai stepped up to make the pickup and ship the Bear-a-Byte to the YouTuber, and thus history was made and the cyborg bear preserved. In the rest of the video, LGR goes about taking the mechanized apex predator apart, giving his innards and coat a much needed clean while also replacing problem components like his mismatched floppy drive and borked power supply.

Curiously, some mishap or the sheer weight of the Varlig-brand jumbo bear pressing down over the years seems to have warped the case slightly, but if he's made it 20+ years already, he should be fine for a few more at least. LGR opted to install the slightly cursed Windows Millennium Edition OS to jive with the charmingly cursed nature of the Bear-a-Byte, and by the end of the video the system is even up and running appropriately ursine games like Fatty Bear's Birthday