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on Applefritter.com:

Like the (gorgeous) Old Time Radio Case.
Another Old Time Radio case.
The (fugly) Popsicle stick case.
The (just homely) plain wood box.
OK, and the just plain whacky, like a Mac in a Floppy Disk Box!

Check out the other stuff, that site is seriously cool.

on Applefritter.com:

Like the (gorgeous) Old Time Radio Case.
Another Old Time Radio case.
The (fugly) Popsicle stick case.
The (just homely) plain wood box.
OK, and the just plain whacky, like a Mac in a Floppy Disk Box!

Check out the other stuff, that site is seriously cool.

can be found here.

can be found here.

can be found here.

Already been done.

Hi.

Your mod was not original. You hollowed out an old Mac computer and put in a lame ass AMD board. Then you stuck some lights in it which is as tired as it gets. Then you write 1984 to 2004 on a piece of glass and stick it in the front.

Whoopee.

Please next time you want to "mod" something be original. Be creative.

This sure as fuck wasn't either of those.

Some links to help out with your next project

Ars Technicas Case and Cooling fetish. They have dozens of mods being done at anyone time and many more modders lurking. Link

Applefritter. Mac case mods and the like. Link

HTH HAND

030 working MacAquarium

Applefritter has one that's an original iMac pullled to pieces, and modded into a 21" monitor.

Looks a bit odd from some angles, but it's kind of appealing.

Applefritter has one that's an original iMac pullled to pieces, and modded into a 21" monitor.

Looks a bit odd from some angles, but it's kind of appealing.

well, some determined people have already done it...

The best hack I'd seen was on a colour classic, where an LCD was found to just fit its display, a slot loading DVDrom was mounted an inch below the display, with a slot cut out freshly, and shaped to perfectly match the floppy drive slot on a quadra of the day, and a 6500 motherboard with 500MHz G3 installed were all fit inside the case. It was -very- well done.

applefritter has the thread about it but unfortunately all the pics are now down.

A japanese fellow has done a nice tidy conversion too.

Personally, I have no problem just pixelling up the completely fake ones :)

Do Win98 users really need official support from MS? I know nothing about M$ world, but if it is anything like the Mac world, then there should be a healthy range of thriving independent online support forums for obsolete hardware and software (You can even get support for ancient 68k Macs at places like Applefritter and 68k Mac Liberation Army. Official support from the official vendor is not really needed as long as someone out there has the answer to your question or can help point you in the right direction.

The only reason a computer user needs "official" support is if they have a pinhead boss or are worried about patches for security holes...... Oh, I see the problem now. Even so Win98 should be "usable" for decades to come if its users form a devoted community that provides mutual support.

Actually, that was Unix. It was A/UX 3.0x running on a Quadra 700. More info here.

Although, what I'd prefer, is a frame with wireless built in so it can update from the web via my existing internet connection rather than having to dial out every night. Has anyone see something like this?

Doing a quick google search didn't give me a commercial product, but I did find the following link that might be of interest to someone:

Building a digital picture frame from a PowerBook Duo 270c/280c

Old Apple laptops make great picture frames such as this Duo hack described on Applefritter. All but the earliest Powerbooks supported color images and have some form of built-in networking.

The 'joke' interface for the magic word appeared to be running on MacOS, I would guess 7.

It very well might have been A/UX.

c) Apple did not move BACK to UNIX, because Apple never used UNIX before.

This guy has a detailed tutorial on how to do this with an old powerbook duo

I'm just waiting until I get mine from ebay! :) :)

Plus this gives you a good reason to still run localtalk..

I wish apple would make one of the convertable flip-over type tablets because I'm betting they could get it right on the first try.

I 100% agree with you. I was holding out and hoping for an Apple laptop/tablet, which would combine the creme de la creme of two fields -- Apple makes the best laptops, and tablets are the best kind of laptop.

Unfortunately Apple has been mum (though OS X has integrated handwriting recognition, so there's hope). Instead I broke down and bought on Acer. It has been incredible for these reasons:

- it's small. not quite as small as the smallest vaios, but it's very, very small. people see it and say "hey, that's a sexy laptop". When I pop the clips and flip the screen, their jaws drop.

- it is an excellent paper replacement. if you like to do your thinking using graphs, rough sketches, outlines, or on a whiteboard, it's very handy. i used to go through reams of lined paper, now I use MS Journal. draw, erase, move, highlight, undo, everything.

- if you like to doodle, you will love it (the Acers are pressure sensitive, and Alias Sketchbook is a nice app).

- it's a perfectly functional laptop. i'm typing on it right now. i code on it.

- in a couple of minutes I'll take it out into the living room (integrated wireless). flip it around, and browse the web with the stylus. most web pages display better in portrait orientation, and most don't require keyboard input. the only sucky thing is typing in URLs -- make sure you have a rich list of links in your favorites list, homepage, etc.

If you've read this far, let me also describe the first truly new computer-interface experience I've had in a long time. the built-in microphone sucks, but here's what you do:

- get a headset with a boom mike
- plug it in, configure XP Tablet voice recognition
- flip it into tablet mode
- dictate to your heart's content.
Long-term usage of a computer without a keyboard is quite possible with this setup. The voice rec is about 85% for me, but with the stylus I can be correcting previous mistakes while I continue to speak. It feels very natural.

Okay, now the drawbacks:

- pen alignment isn't perfect. i keep trying to recalibrate it, but it never quite lines up right, especially at the edges of the screen. the can make detail sketching a pain in the neck.

- the TFT LCD screen is bright and sharp, but contrast changes significantly with viewing angle. this can make sketching a pain in the neck (lines look too soft from one angle, to dark from another. hard to tell what the final will look like on other monitors).

Best anecdote: last night I took it to a party, put it in tablet mode, put a cheap wooden picture frame around it, installed a slideshow screensaver, and hung it on the wall. it looked like a digital photo frame, and drew a lot of startled compliments.

I can't recommend it enough. If you like drawing and are considering getting a laptop, it's well worth the extra money (after rebates, the Acer was about $1800).

actually the credit for this one i have to give to the outbound laptop (detachable parts and all)

Is it just me, or does the new wireless keyboard looks a lot like the old "Cassie" keyboard prototype? (white, almost frameless)

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-Sid

Something similar was done a while back a guy made a big imac out of 21" Nokia monitor. http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/21imac/

Applefritter has one that's an original iMac pullled to pieces, and modded into a 21" monitor.

Looks a bit odd from some angles, but it's kind of appealing.

Applefritter has one that's an original iMac pullled to pieces, and modded into a 21" monitor.

Looks a bit odd from some angles, but it's kind of appealing.

My bad. I thought he was ultimately trying to build a wooden case to emulate the first Apple I Woz built in his garage. Personally, I would have used an emulator. There is one for Apple //. Not sure about 1.

In any event, this guy is a geek.

Having the machine would be really cool, but you can emulate the Apple I right now if you like.

Java Apple I emulator.

Other Apple I emulators for Windows and Macintosh.

I'm just about to give them a try. Can't find anything for Linux or UNIX though :-(

And here's one that actually runs.

people have been doing this for years with old macs

See more details here

A/UX did something like this called Commando. IIRC, MPW had it too.

A/UX did something like this called Commando. IIRC, MPW had it too.

Compubrick 160 has both of these fools beat.

You know, flame all you want but we all know everyone started in this programming language.

Sometime later I got an account on the Suns at school, where I discovered some languages that I still use today ...

I saw something like this a while ago on Apple Fritter where a guy built his classic iMac into a 21" monitor. He didn't go the easy way and use an LCD screen, though.

the banana was also a real ][ clone. I remember seeing one in Morgan computer on new oxford street some time in the mid eighties.

Perhaps more creative if anything... You obviously didn't take any of your precious time to do a little research and realize that Mac users have been 'modding' since long before the whole 'PC mod' trend/craze started. Look here, here, here, here, and the list could go on. Try googling 'mac case mods' and you'll get plenty of links. Not to mention that slashdot has had (numerous?) stories on Mac case mods before...

Nope, sorry. It was the first *uncertified* computer to emulate MacOS reasonably (often faster than the Apple hardware itself), though hardware (AMax, Emplant) was required to make legal use of Apple ROMs.

I'm not sure what the first legit Apple clone was, but it probably dates back to the era of the Outbound portables.

Dave Haynie, a prominent Commodore engineer, later went on to work for Pios (later renamed Metabox), one of many companies founded to ride the PowerPC clone-wave. Apple rescinded their licensing contracts with the clonemakers, and that was the end of that. (Metabox went on to some minor success in the Mac accellerator and set-top-box market, but I believe they're defunct now. Dave's certainly moved on to other things.)

Just to reinforce...Mac people have been modding their Macs long before the "leet case modders" have been. http://www.applefritter.com/ has the evidence.

Fear the power of the K'nexintosh!

There are plent of Mac case mods...
http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/index.html

The Compubrick 160, SE, and 6100.

Freakin cool Macs.

The Compubrick 160, SE, and 6100.

Freakin cool Macs.

The Compubrick 160, SE, and 6100.

Freakin cool Macs.

"HomeR" Project
- Modular Windows
- "Otto" Project (SW for cars; 1992)

I wonder if the "Otto" project was an attept to drive away the Apple Lisa.

Good point.. reminds me of this story posted here a while back:

Old PowerBook + Hot Glue = Cheap Digital Picture Frame

Rumor sites BAD? Hell...as if Mac users (myself included) weren't fanatical enough already, Rumor sites provide the mosed obsessed Mac nuts a place to feel right at home...They're the closest thing to a case mod community Apple's got (except, of course, for the Apple case mod community)

But seriously...Apple rumor sites are all in good fun...they give you that little thrill that you know something Mr. Jobs doesn't want you to know. And seldom does harm come from a rumor site (yes, there have been exceptions in the past, but I mean on the whole). And who is to say that the crazy ideas brought up in the bizarre and frightening rumor forums don't give Apple clues as to the direction customers want them to go? Or clues as to how to go about marketing their products?

I don't think they're a bad thing at all...no worse than sites claiming to have the latest screenshots from "Windows Longhorn XXP 2006 super confidential unix-powered beta."

It would probably look something like this.

I've got an rev. b iMac (the almost-original bondi blue style) with a dead monitor. As near as I can tell the electronics are all fine, but without a working display it won't boot. I'd love to get it running again, minimallly as a "hidden in the closet" server, or better still by finding someone with another dead iMac with a working display where I could merge the parts together into one working machine.

Rev. A-D iMacs (all the tray-loaders) can be fitted up with an ATX PSU (or keep their existing supply) and be connected to an external monitor pretty easily - As long as you don't mind transplanting parts into a generic case.

If you open the machine up, you may just be able to connect an Apple monitor to the logic board, the first few revisions used a standard Apple monitor connection for the CRT.

Can't remember a precise link at the moment, but have a hunt round on the Applefritter forums for further details.

Yes, they're Quadras running Apple's Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) on A/UX.