Build a PC Inside of a Mac

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Posted by timothy on Saturday April 27, 2002 @01:04AM from the macs-are-personal-computers dept.

jherro writes: "Looking for the coolest case on the block? Already have enough fish tanks? Then might just want to build a PC inside of your old classic mac. Makes a great little mp3 server. Sadly, the mirror at angelfire will probably be faster than the original at Smuniverse." Finding a cheap 9" monitor would be a nice trick, too.

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Ah, I see... by Lurkingrue · 2002-04-27 01:11 · Score: 4, Funny

Sorta like hiding manure inside a bouquet of flowers -- what a great evil trick to pull on someone!
Emulation by Ratbert42 · 2002-04-27 01:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Then you can run the Basilisk II Mac emulator and have the fastest compact Mac.
News flash by jpellino · 2002-04-27 01:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Cupertino CA - Jef Raskin, Andy Hertzfeld, and Bill Atkinson, members of the original Macintosh team committed mass seppuku today on DeAnza Blvd. When asked why, they replied "we'd read this article on slashdot about stuffing a PeeCee into a classic Mac, and we thought someone must be rolling over in their grave. But then we remebered we're not dead yet, so we had to push the project along..."

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Cheap 9" monitors by Consul · 2002-04-27 01:27 · Score: 5, Informative

You don't really need to go out of your way to find a 9" PC monitor. There's a place called Earth LCD that has loads of surplus and overstock LCDs available, including touch screens. Some surfing around will come up with a good 8.5-9" color LCD with a VGA input.

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I knew I had seen this before... by GutBomb · 2002-04-27 01:41 · Score: 5, Informative

I saw another one of these a couple days ago, don't remember where I got the link, but I think this one is much nicer, with an lcd screen and all. I think he is using the mac mouse and keyboard too... (not sure)
Why not stuff a chicken with a turkey. by JohnBE · 2002-04-27 01:45 · Score: 5, Insightful

This is insane. There are far more interesting things to do with old computers, I read recently that someone built an Amiga laptop. Which is odd because Amiga never built anything other than desktops and they were converting the A600 consumer model. OK, obscure example. But...

Why not try something similarly imaginitive with old Macs? It would be interesting to see what a machine code programmer and some control outputs could do. Certainly automate a bedroom at least. Replacing it with a PC is dull and an old Mac is far cheaper than a 68000 based embedded development board and better documented than a lot of embedded developement boards. Re-program, skew, take out of context but don't ditch the heart and soul of the machine.

If you want a wacky case take up shop lessons and learn to work metal, don't destroy the past (with some effort and time spent).

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1. Re:Why not stuff a chicken with a turkey. by cetan · 2002-04-27 02:19 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Why would you want to stop with just a chicken in a turkey? If you put a chicken inside a duck first, it tastes a lot better:
  
  Turducken to the rescue.
  
  Yes, I've had one and yes, they do taste great.
  
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Alternate Choices by Alien54 · 2002-04-27 01:55 · Score: 4, Informative

I would have thought that an old LCD panel or something would have been more usable in the case vs a nine inch monitor, which is a very rare bird indeed.
quick search on google only finds 9 inch monitors in monochrome, and ten inch color. He uses a ViewMagic, which currently only shows a 10" color available as new product.
odd fish indeed.

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Well, that was stupid. by EvilStein · 2002-04-27 03:22 · Score: 4, Insightful

/. authors should know better than to never link to anything on Angelfire. 10 people hit the site and drove the poor guy over his daily bandwidth limit.

It's a useless mirror now...