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  1. my personal favorite by Clover_Kicker · · Score: 1 · on Making Stuff Out Of Broken Computer Equipment?
    Here's the best use for a genuine IBM PC: http://www.techquarium.com/aquaria/oldsite/catbox/ xtbox.html

    I'd love to get my hands on an IBM 3270 and turn it into a fishtank. I'd paint the inside of the case black, and use a green backlight.

  2. Chapter 2 in the book is my aquariums! by jlower · · Score: 2, Informative · on Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks

    I was contacted by the author of this book last year and gave him permission to use my plans for building a Macquarium. So, I am chapter 2 of the "Hardware Hacking Projects For Geeks" book.

    Woo Hoo!

    Anyway, my aquariums are Here.

    The plans Scott used for his book are here. The plans are kind of old and busted (there's no link to them any more on my site) and I think the author did a great job.

    The one thing in the book I'd like to build now is the MAMA game cabinet. I've got an old arcade Ms Pac-Man and it gets lots of use but I'd love to have a bunch of the old games in one stand-up cabinet.

  3. Chapter 2 in the book is my aquariums! by jlower · · Score: 2, Informative · on Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks

    I was contacted by the author of this book last year and gave him permission to use my plans for building a Macquarium. So, I am chapter 2 of the "Hardware Hacking Projects For Geeks" book.

    Woo Hoo!

    Anyway, my aquariums are Here.

    The plans Scott used for his book are here. The plans are kind of old and busted (there's no link to them any more on my site) and I think the author did a great job.

    The one thing in the book I'd like to build now is the MAMA game cabinet. I've got an old arcade Ms Pac-Man and it gets lots of use but I'd love to have a bunch of the old games in one stand-up cabinet.

  4. Chapter 2 in the book is my aquariums! by jlower · · Score: 2, Interesting · on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack?

    I was contacted by the author of this book last year and gave him permission to use my plans for building a Macquarium. So, I am chapter 2 of the "Hardware Hacking Projects For Geeks" book

    Woo Hoo!

    Anyway, my aquariums are here.

    The plans Scott used for his book are here. They are kind of old and busted (there's no link to them any more on my site) and I think the author did a great job.

  5. Chapter 2 in the book is my aquariums! by jlower · · Score: 2, Interesting · on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack?

    I was contacted by the author of this book last year and gave him permission to use my plans for building a Macquarium. So, I am chapter 2 of the "Hardware Hacking Projects For Geeks" book

    Woo Hoo!

    Anyway, my aquariums are here.

    The plans Scott used for his book are here. They are kind of old and busted (there's no link to them any more on my site) and I think the author did a great job.

  6. Re:New mod box ideas... add them here. by dypstick · · Score: 1 · on Hardware Bits

    It's been done!
    http://www.techquarium.com/oldsite/catbox/xtbox.ht ml

  7. I mod them so much by jlower · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Mac Case Mods

    That they aren't even computers any more. I've made aquariums out of 'classic' Macs, Lisas, MacTV's, and large monitors of all kinds. I've made Macs into bookshelf speakers, Old IBM PC's into cat litterboxes, and am now working on coverting an old laptop into an ant farm. I'm keeping my eyes open for a big PC tower so I can cut the top off, hinge it with a foot pedal and make a trash can.

    Why? 'cause I like to tear stuff up and make it into something else. Does anyone need a better reason?

    See a lot of my stuff here...

  8. Re:For crying out loud by shayne321 · · Score: 3, Funny · on 1+ GHz Commodore SX-64 Mod
    Yeah, next thing you know people will be turning IBM PC's into catboxes. Sheesh.

    Shayne

  9. Re:If I sold my mac SE, where would my fish live? by jlower · · Score: 2 · on Where Old Macs Go To Thrive

    I built about 50 of the things over the years using acrylic instead of glass. Sold them, gave them away, kept a couple. I still have 40 or so old Macs in the garage but about half of them are shells only.

    My Macquariums

  10. Re:NeXT by jlower · · Score: 2 · on Black Is The New Beige

    Actually the only black Mac was the Mac TV which used the same case plastic as the 5xx series.

    It wasn't much of a computer, but I made a dandy fishtank out of one!

  11. best site by Satai · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Computer Hardware That Can Pull Double-Duty?

    TechQuarium is a great site for Mac Aquariums and so on.

  12. Macquariums by daniel_isaacs · · Score: 3 · on 101 Uses for an Old Server

    The obvious example of case-reuse.

    Here be some good examples: The Apple Collection and Aquarium by Jim.