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Macintosh 2004 Case Mod
NOTD665 writes "'On January 24 [1984], Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984."' This was the pronouncement at the end of Apple's commercial, which TV Guide magazine would later deem the greatest commercial of all time. Aired during the 1983 Super Bowl, the now famous Apple Macintosh '1984' commercial informed the world that the age of modern, home PCs was coming. Get ready. Here comes the Mac... Finally, one fateful day in December, the Mac's slumber was awoken yet again. It was time for the Mac to be reborn." Too bad it doesn't run Mac OS X.
-MSI KM400 Socket A mATX Motherboard (Model KM4M-L)
-Kingston HyperX PC2700 512MB (2x256)
-Sapphire Radeon 9600 256MB
-Western Digital WD800JB 80GB Hard Drive
-Lite-On LDW-411S 4x DVD-RW Drive
-Sparkle 350W FSP350-60BT Powersupply
-Thermalright AX-7 Heatsink with AOC Aluminum 80mm Fan
-3 (1 red, 1 blue, 1 green) LazerLED's
This guy defiled the Mac case with PC components!
This is SO WRONG on SO MANY different levels. Ay corrumba.
Sorry, the "1984" ad was aired during the 1984 Super Bowl. Duh.
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To see a Mac busted up like that.
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They Are Vermin Feeding On Each Other's Feces.
I Hate \.
His webserver must be powered by the original "1984" Macintosh too, since the site is already /.ted!
Still, I'd give him more points if A) he'd instead transplanted the guts of an iLamp, an iBook, or a MacCube into it, so it would still be a Mac, and/or B) found an LCD to mount in place of the window.
And to be honest, if I ever get the nerve to eviscerate my Mac SE, I think I'd rather turn it into an aquarium.
When somebody mods a present day Mac into one of those old cases, including color screen. Ought to be easy, if you're willing to sacrifice a powerbook.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Why not chuck an lcd screen in there and run a Mac emulator too...
A coworker has two of the old original macs sitting on her desk for posterity. I keep trying to get her to convert one to a fish tank :)
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
I go to the site, and the server is already getting slashdotted to hell. It's like a subscriber-only slashdotting. sheesh.
as for the computer, It doesn't look too bad... but i'm not too fond of the different colored glowing lights. I would have been more impressed if they used one of those VIA baords and tried to get a 5" or so LCD in there. that would be sweet.
WTPOUAWYHTTOTWPA
What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
1) Have you never seen a Cube? Pissed all over this, three years ago
2) A separate monitor? You do NOT get it.
3) Why is this on Slashdot?
but... from what other people have said... I don't want to see this so maybe everyone has done me a favor.
This year's Super Bowl, Apple is skipping the product ad and going political. It's going to be a remake of the 1984 ad, only with a different face on the screen. And this time, the babe gets caught by security before smashing the screen. At the end, the head of the security forces pulls off his helmet to reveal:
"John Ashcroft. Why 2004 WILL be like _1984_"
I tell ya, Jobs was more of a visionary than any of us thought.
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Will someone be cramming a G6 (or whatever they're on) board into a 5150 case?
Looks like it's /.ed, here's the part of the article dealing with the actual modding:
Before You Start
The first thing you will need to accomplish before you start hacking up your case, is knowing where you want to install the fans. Once you have figured out where you would like to place the fans, you need to decide a few more things. A) Which size fan should I use in this spot? B) Will the fan even be able to fit there? (Trust me it's worth it to take the time and make sure!) and C) Which direction would I want the fan to blow? The most common places to install extra fans are on the side, top and front of the case. Fans mounted on the top of the case are useful because they help to get rid of the hot air that rises to the top of the case, so these fans are usually blowing air up, out of the case. Fans on the front of the case are used to introduce colder air into the case, which helps to lower the temperature of anything inside the case. Fans mounted on the side are usually placed strategically, to help cool a specific part of the system, the video card, and the CPU are the most common. When people put fans on the side of the case, they need to consider very carefully which direction the air should be pushed. In some cases, you want fresh, cold air being circulated, but other times you just want to pull any hot air that might be trapped, right out of the case. Once you have decided where you want to place your new fans, you're ready to get started!
Getting Started
OK, you've gutted your case, figured out which fans you want to use, and where you want to put them, so it's time to start the fun stuff. The first thing you need to do is mark up the case, so you know where to drill and cut. I use a washable marker, so that I can easily rinse off any marks I make on the case.
I choose to place fan grills where I want the fans to be, and then mark where each corner of the fan grill is. In doing this, I have made it clear where the fan will go, and it helps to make sure that you have the screws line up with the hole. After you mark your 4 dots on the case, take a drill and drill out each hole. Next I screw the fan grill into the case, and outline the hole I will need to cut out. I complete these steps for every fan on the case before I go any further. At this point you have set in stone, where each of your fans will go, as well as where the hole itself needs to go.
The Tough Way
Like I already said, we will be completing this mod using very simple tools, which makes it more realistic for most people to be able to do a case mod. Unfortunately, this way is harder than the alternative that I will discuss. If you do not have the proper sized hole saw, and are not confident with a dremel, then this is a sure way for you to make a good looking hole for your fan to fit into, it will just take a lot of patience.
To do the mod in this fashion you will need to take your drill, and make a bunch of holes around the perimeter of your outlined circle, just inside of where you want the edge of your hole to be.
Once you have drilled around the perimeter of the hole, you need to drill a big hole somewhere in the center of the where the hole is going to be. This hole only needs to be big enough to fit some tin snips into. Keep in mind that tin snips are somewhat clumsy, and it takes a while to cut the case like this, so if you have a scroll saw, or another means of cutting the metal in your case, by all means, use it. The purpose here is to cut the hole into 'slices' so it looks like a pizza. When you do this, just cut from the center, and connect it with one of the holes you drilled around the edge of the circle.
Once you have all the pieces cut to the edge of your hole, you need to take pliers, and bend each piece out. The more holes you put around the edge of the circle, the nicer this will look, and the less filing you will have to do afterwards, so keep that in mind. As soon as you finish breaking out each piece you ar
He bastardized a MacPlus, and even worse, it needs an external monitor! This dude has no sense of style.
Apparently the web server is running the same Macintosh introduced to the world back in 1984 as well.
1. It looks like crap.
2. It's a PC.
3. It looks like crap.
Somehow I'm a little less than impressed. Not necessarily with the workmanship, mind you, but with the concept design and ultimate implementation.
Someone in the past modified a Color Classic to have a G3 in it, and maintained the look and feel of the original Classic, complete with color 512x384 display. I think that they made some mods to the video display circuitry so it could do 640x480, but the original tube was used. All of the components fit inside of the case.
If they were dead-set on converting that Mac to a PC platform, they could have use a Mini-ITX motherboard and mounted it in the bottom, like the shuttle PCs. They could have also used an undersized power supply like HP, eMachines, and shuttle PCs used, so that it would also fit nicely. They would have had to find someone to design and build the necessary hardware to run the display that was there, or they could have bought a Fujitsu 8" colour monitor that are commonly used at cash register systems. That would have allowed them to keep the monitor inside.
At least they got practice with a Dremel. Hopefully they'll come up with something a little less rough next time.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I have a mac classic sitting in my garage waiting for me to do something to it.
:)
I want to annoy my friends (yeah... ok... friend) by making a boot floppy for my Mac Classic that just shows a linux penguin (i put linux on everything i can), or maybe a Mac Logo, for a tribute. How would one go about doing that? I think it would be more of an honor than raping this poor machine and putting an AMD inside
WTPOUAWYHTTOTWPA
What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
A mac case with mishmash insides sporting a defunct os...
Ocean is land, covered with water.
This is a really weak case mod. Step 1: find square box. step 2: stuff a pc in said square box.
It would have been interesting if it had incorporated some kind of technical/artistic/nostalgic trick. For example: using modern mac parts (g4 cube maybe) and fitting a new display in place of the original. Or better yet, figure out how to get the old display working on a new machine. Or neatly fit new connectors (usb, firewire, ethernet) in place of the old, etc. This is just a motherboard in a different box - there is nothing interesting or clever about it.
That's a Mac Plus (circa 1986) not the origional Mac (128k). He's 2 years early.
The spot aired on Jan. 22, 1984, the date of that year's Super Bowl.
The case is clearly that of a Mac Plus, as is the motherboard. Those came out somewhat later (and the early Mac Pluses still didn't say "Macintosh" on the front, it was just the Apple logo), and are also extremely not-at-all-valuable.
I have an original Mac Plus (the kind which doesn't say Macintosh Plus on front) which I use as a very sturdy doorstop. (I also had a bunch of others which I gave to my brother to use as the legs for a coffee table.)
For me, the ultimate case mod will always be the server / espresso machine. Got to know what's important, UP TIME!
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
What is this constant fad with /.ing? Sure sometimes a site is overloaded but lately I seen constant claims that a site is down while the site loads perfectly fine. Are these people on some kind of hair trigger? If it doesn't load in a pico second it must be down?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
These original mac -> anything mods only count if you do one of two things.
... it kinda looks funny.
1, Anything involving still having a display built in. Extra marks for using the original CRT, normal marks for replacing it with another, lose some points for putting an LCD in
2, Make a fishtank. Or some way of dispensing beer.
Just throwing the shit from a Windows box in it doesn't really count.
Dave
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
i think its alright. sure, would have been cooler to have a g4(or g5) in there, of course. and, sure, it would have been cooler to have dual vid cards and have one run to an lcd in that opening where the old crt was. granted, that all would have made it cooler. i still think its pretty cool. i dig the idea of having that thing turned into a usable case. thats a pretty sweet lan party box to lug around. not even that big, really.
ive been wanting to stick a pc in at least an old g3 case with the drop-down side. those are soooo cool. im endlessly fascinated (far more than i should be) by those things.
use your turn signal! you people act like it's divulging information to the enemy
For the record, I recently got a SCSI ethernet adapter for my Macintosh. Yes, that's Macintosh. No "Plus." Model M0001. And, no, the SCSI wasn't a stock item at that point... :) I haven't quite managed to get it running as a web server. (The original macintosh has no MMU, so don't bother to suggest Linux), but It is still perfectly capable of doing lots of things without being gutted. For shame! And, once I get it running as a server on my DSL line, I fully intend to proudly put on my business cards that I am operating one of the oldest (though, certainly not the oldest) servers on the internet!
Then I was mistaken, I apologize. I'm no football afficionado. :-/
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If you don't know what you're talking about then don't post. Ooops, this is /. - my bad.
So, one can only imagine my disgust when I happened to see one of these glorious creatures sitting on the curb by a neighbor's house...
The computer shown is actually a Mac Plus, which was first released in January 1986.
The original Macintosh had no SCSI port. Hard disks were connected via the RS-232 port, I believe.
That is not a mac 128k. That mac is NOT 20 years old. This is really weak. putting a PC in it? oh please - this is not hard at all. why does anyone with a digital camera and time on there hands (read: no ingenuity) get time on slashdot.
Since the page seems to be loading slow, I've mirrored it here.
What *type* of applique do you need in order to get the nice reflection of colored lights?
White? Silver etched? (I'm looking at the shatteredweb.com site that they said they got the applique from.)
well, some determined people have already done it...
Macintosh 2004
Author: Alexandre Petraglia, Gino Pellicano, and Jim Scouras
"On January 24 [1984], Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984'."
This was the pronouncement at the end of Apple's commercial, which TV Guide magazine would later deem the greatest commercial of all time. Aired during the 1983 Super Bowl, the now famous Apple Macintosh "1984" commercial informed the world that the age of modern, home PC's was coming. Get ready. Here comes the Mac.
Apple successfully launched the Macintosh 128K on it's designated date of January 24th, 1984 (although somehow I don't imagine there were lines out the door of the Apple store, stretching for blocks and blocks and blocks, as seen here). But nonetheless, what a magnificent computer it was. Equipped with an 8Mhz CPU made by Motorola, 128kb of onboard memory, a 3.5" floppy drive, two serial ports, and a gorgeous black and white monitor built into the unit, the Macintosh was the first affordable home computer to include a GUI (graphical user interface). And the price for all that power? $2,500.
So, one can only imagine my disgust when I happened to see one of these glorious creatures sitting on the curb by a neighbor's house, patiently waiting to be lifted into the truck by our friendly, local sanitation workers, and then carried off to a dump where it would lay to rest in happy retirement for ages to come.
I could have reprimanded my neighbors, or I could have let the Mac be taken away. Why do things happen as they do? Perhaps fate intervened, as I'm quite certain I recall seeing a slight shiver in the corner of the Mac's screen as I firmly grasped it's conveniently located handle (and taking the keyboard and external drive that lay on the grass next to it). Could it have possibly known all that lay in store for it; my ambitious plans for granting it a new lease on life? Perhaps...
Whatever the case, the rescued computer resided on a shelf in my dungeon laboratory basement for six months. Finally, one fateful day in December, the Mac's slumber was awoken yet again. It was time for the Mac to be reborn.
That's right, for all those that have caught on to where I'm going with all this. I had plans as ambitious as the great Dr. Frankenstein. I was going to give a dead soul life once again. I was going to rebuild the first modern-day PC, with modern-day parts...20 years later.
Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present my creation...Macintosh 2004.
Here she is, in all her glory. Oh, this is before the makeover, mind you. If you're the inpatient type, you could scroll down to the end of this article and see what it looks like in all its final glory. But that's not recommended, for it's not always about the destination, but the journey as well, my friends.
To begin, here are some more "before" pictures.
Inside view
The case dismantled
The innards
The original motherboard
The component list:
-AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton CPU
-MSI KM400 Socket A mATX Motherboard (Model KM4M-L)
-Kingston HyperX PC2700 512MB (2x256)
-Sapphire Radeon 9600 256MB
-Western Digital WD800JB 80GB Hard Drive
-Lite-On LDW-411S 4x DVD-RW Drive
-Sparkle 350W FSP350-60BT Powersupply
-Thermalright AX-7 Heatsink with AOC Aluminum 80mm Fan
-3 (1 red, 1 blue, 1 green) LazerLED's
Sure, we could have gone with a VIA Epia Mini based system, saved some money, and would have had no worries about fitting all the components. But quite honestly, where would the fun in that have been? This had to be a decent gaming rig as well, not just something with which to type in Word and check emails.
Formal plans or blueprints beforehand? Little to non-existent, which would prove to be our biggest regret. We did, however, incorporate several predetermined "ideas",
Yes, what a wonderful way to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh, by gutting one and stuffing the innards of an x86 machine into it, then ricing it up with stupid lights to add insult to injury.
A fitting tribute, indeed.
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.
030 working MacAquarium
It's a PC and the case is clearly a Mac Plus from 1986, not an original Mac.
This twerp is obviously to young to know what computers even cost back in the day. And he performs this sacrilege while keeping the Apple logo. Err... hello? Macs aren't PC's. You don't even have a screen installed. This is the worst mod I've seen in ages.
i personally think what this guy did was pretty cool. i might have put in a lcd, but a lot of us don't have the cash to scrap a new MAC or buy lcd. the job the guy did probably cost around $600 anyway, and for a guy like me, thats a lot.
Wow what an asshole.
I agree with the original poster too. This isn't a.s.o material.
Hell that thing won't even run system 6.0.5
What?
If he put an LCD display in, he could make it run vMac. That'd be neat.
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Back then the book 1984 had absolutely nothing to do with anything, so naturally Apple picked up on it, thinking it would be cute and timely.
i like watching her boobs shake when she runs
Sure, here you go
You are stupid
You dont have to thank me.
Why is it that Apple Computer is doomed to repeat the same actions that gets them in trouble time and time again. Sure, they can just settle out of court, but it's a drain on their corporate value.
could have been a lot better, just another MB in a box case mod...yawn
There was an unknown error in the submission.
Well, if you used a Pegasos PPC motherboard or an AmigaOne board you could run MacOSX easily enough.
--AROS is an Open Source AmigaOS clone, and source compatible with AmigaOS! Try the x86 build at http://www.aros.org
he can crow no more
Why would I need to do a case mod for an 1984 Mac?
I just pulled out my low SN Fat Mac (512K) from 1984 and booted her up from floppy...not the original disks and played some Missile Command on it.
uCLinux has been ported to some 68K derivatives. See their Ports Page.
as you stated the real point was to keep the costs down. That's it.
Woha. OK the line on the site above is to the commercial that played in 1984. If you go the the Apple site and watch the commercial that is hoster there (http://www.apple.com/hardware/ads/1984/) and watch teh commercial again you will notice something new. THE GIRL IS WEARING AN IPOD!! very interesting
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I like it! Good use of LEDs, a quick processor... and a true DVD drive never hurts. AND it can game like a real PC with that nice Raedon 9600! Imagine that! I can hear the stampede of overjoyed Mac users rushing to buy them now... and their sighs of dismay that the mouse has MORE THAN ONE BUTTON! THE HORROR!
One of the 187.
Horrible. Sacreligious. That's not even the first Mac, it's a plus, and he crammed PC components into it!
It's a terrifying bad drug trip. What was he thinking?
-- Eli Juicy Jones
Is that guy related (perhaps a lover) to some Slashdot admin?
That Mac-case modding is hideous, the devil himself would run from it.
Would have been a lot more impressive if he had fit a G5 mobo in there...not completely impossible, if you recall the iCube. At the very least, he could have run a Ximian GUI on linux, that would have at least a passing resemblance to the Mac OS. Anyone manage to run Darwin on anything, BTW?
Hmm, not trying to put this guy down or anything, but Mac-to-PC total conversions have been done better. Here's a step-by-step of one from a couple years ago.
For those who'd like to run a newer Mac in an all-in-one form factor, it's apparently pretty straightforward to drop a cube straight into a Color Classic (hmmm, two obsolete systems in one!) Alternatively, it'd be a pretty neat project to put together one of these with say the guts of a 12" PowerBook.
This is just so wrong. In so many ways. It's like...it's like...taking a Linux system and proudly replacing it with Windows in order to get worms.
Shuddering...
BWHAHAHAHAHAH! You got 0WN3D! Maybe you're not a football aficionado but what about a Google aficionado dumbass?
Does anyone know of anyone who has taken a dead vintage Mac (like a Plus) and fit the case with a TFT screen and either a mini-ITX board or a modern Mac board? Any links?
This guy did it half-way. If we're going to butcher a vintage Mac Plus in the name of retro coolness, I want to see a fully updated computer.
It would seem, good sir, that coherency and intellect aren't your strong points.
For his next "mod", he'll gut a 1947 Ferrari 125 and replace all the parts with those from a 2004 Buick Regal.
Why is this news, and why is it on the front page? Is there no end to these "look! I stuffed a PC system in to a different box" stories?
Article X: The powers not delegated... by the Constitution...are reserved...to the people
After a clean install of Windows, things were running along smoothly.
running smoothly, yeah right.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
Now there's finally hope for those unfortunate millions of Mac users that have been locked to their platform, without decent computing power. It is time to get back to the future!
From now on, let it not be forgotten that us PC people have shown out mercy, as well as the path forward to our Mac brethren. No more cheeky remarks about Bill G's nerdy looks, or about SCO, please. Come, join our happy ranks; why don't we all just get along!
Oh but it does!
Timeo idiotikOS et dona ferentes
'nuf said.
I saw a mac mod some time ago where the person put a small LCD screen where the original monitor would have been as well as the usual replacing of componenets. It was slick. He could then run a Mac emulator to get the full effect. So unless you were told so, or you got pretty close, you'd never know it really wasn't a mac. Truly macabre!
>>>>>> Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
take a piece of historical text, then modify it to fit your current needs. Could not have been more Orwellian.
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Guys, it looks like ass.
No slot loading drive? I mean come on! The CD drive tray is so tacky!
Yes, but does it run linux?
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these.
"To see a Mac busted up like that."
:)
Ah! No respect for the dead.
But seriously a lot of people feel the same when old Amigas, Ataries, Acorns, Radios, and TV's are gutted for a mod....or just plain gutted. Kind of like gutting an old friend.
"Ought to be easy, if you're willing to sacrifice a powerbook."
At those prices?? NEVER!!
Too bad it does not run under Fusion or Basilisk. I tried both Fusion and Basilisk and it does not work
You guys are not giving them any credit, which is wrong. They didn't want to mod it into another computer, they used it as a case. I for one think its a very good case, as they intended it. I don't care what they did to the screen, it looked cool. Give them credit, they tried.
I've left to find myself. If you happen to see me, please, keep me there until I return.
Thats a Mac Plus. Those came later. Boy, those screamed past my poor little 512ke (third mac ever made).
"Got to know what's important, UP TIME!"
Viagra "drip" dispenser.
And you all said that a Mac could not support a 2 button mouse!
It's kinda cool (unlike some, I don't belittle the effort to configure the insides &c.), but it's running, not modern Mac OS, not a real OS like GNU/Linux, *BSD or something, but Windows. It's akin to Hagia Sophia (the greatest of Christian churches, used as a mosque for nearly half a millennium). The guys really should slap a free OS on there. Other than that it's pretty sweet.
I found a mac plus in our dorm and rather than throw it away I tried to find something useful to do with it. Now "Lil' Lenin" is a public terminal for random poetry. If only the floppy had enough space for more than ten pages...
You know, it would have been a lot cooler if you would have jammed the innards of a G4 Cube inside of that old Macintosh. That and a small LCD screen. I mean, he could have at least kept it a Mac that way...
hey!
Could I go and buy a MiniItx motherboard,for a G4 / G5 processor?
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Touchy people I guess. Offtopic? Guess the mods are not getting laid tonight.
Raiders suck. Just lose, baby!
What would have been more impressive is if he got, say, the guts of an LCD iMac or eMac, and fitted a small, high-res LCD in place of the original monitor, keeping it a real mac and also keeping it an all-in-one form-factor...
- k
Specialist Mac support for creative pros, Melbourne
I am sorry but Moding anything hardware/software is more of a PC culture type of thing.
If I get a penny for every mac user who claims Mac works perfect out of the box, I'd be a kazillionaire right now. Talking about modding mac cases, that's like bringing up innovation with microsoft.
Three Superbowl this year ads are for Viagra-type drugs. Really.
(See here or here for details)
I was going to put a sig here, but I had already submitted the message.
No, his two main strong points are incoherncy, idoicy and a complete failure to be able to spell.
No wait, his THREE main . . .
"kekekeke"? Is that korean or do you have emphysema?
And I suppose you think that running Unix on a Mac is sacrilege too?
Those who posses a history book from 1984 should immediately contact the Ministry of Information. The following typographical errors have been corrected since then:
- Replace references to IBM as "evil empire" with "valued PowerPC partner".
- Replace references to Microsoft as "valued third party software developer" with "evil empire".
Ministry of Information agents will collect incorrect history book and provide corrected versions. The agent will also collect the book "Unix Haters Handbook" as it contains numerous typos, including the title. A corrected version, "Unix Lovers Handbook", will be provided.
I'm just wondering - did geeks watch football back in 1984? I can picture it now: Mundane: "Hey geek boy I got a new computer" Geek: "Yeah yeah its not as good as my Apple II" *looks* Geek: "WTF??!!!111"
The end result is exactly what a PC actually is, humiliating, a pale comparison to the original ;0)
just check out this case mod
it just stunned me how it is incorporated ino the car.
it is a G4 used as mp3 player, navigation, communication with the engine and all things possible
http://www.mujmac.cz/art/hw/tatra_mac_eng.html
The point of the project was to display the real first modern home PC revived twenty years after it's original conception
By the same logic, we can dig up decomposing corpses, wear their skin, and by such means, "revive" them?
Well, that was my excuse- the judge didn't buy it though.
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
My mod at least has a tube in it :-)
macmod.html
Oh, and I do use a Classic II regularly just as it is and as it was intended...
fastclassic.html
Now this are cool classic mac case mods! ...) fitted with a G4 and a color screen so that it runs OS X
You can buy from these guys a classic mac (128K to plus to S30 to classic
http://www.nextro.com/nextro/english/i30.html
It's korean for "I have emphysema".
Blatently off-topic MS bashing gets modded up yet again by Slashdork moderors.
Talk about double standards!
Yay Slashdot!
Hardly worth the effort of replying. Take a case from a $25 antique and stuff it full of generic PC junk. Add a cornball logo and date sticker. Voila. Crap.
So to reiterate:
Step 1. Beg for freebies
Step 2. Install said freebies
Step 3. Get featured on a Slashback
Step 4. ???
Step 5. Profit!
P.S. You deserve props for the idea, but please god use heat shrink tubing or something to calm down that ball of PSU wiring in the front.
http://www.apple.com/hardware/ads/1984/
This may be a duplicate post, BUT that isn't the mac introcuced back in '84! That's a mac plus that came out in either 86 or 87 (kinda rusty on that fact).
"Personal ownership is a hallmark of conservative capitalism. And I don't believe I am entitled to anything that I did n
Don't tell me you've forgotten A/UX?
Have you ever tried to find an LCD that will fit the interior of the mac? First off the old screen mount in the face plate is rounded off to fit a CRT. So first you have to grind that to be flat or use filler to extend the monitor hole so that is is flat.
Then you have to find and purchase a bare LCD and an LCD controller. Which from my research is around $650 USD for an 8.4" LCD. So why not find something that has a 10" or 8.4" LCD screen. Okay, but then you're looking at the super highend of portable DVD players and they aint cheap. Furthermore, they have propritary controllers. It's really quite hard and expensive to do the mod with an LCD screen.
I was going to do that exact mod about 5 months ago but with the LCD. However, once I found out the price of the LCD I gave up on the project. As the LCD screen would be more expensive than the rest of the computer.
It's been done - check out the i-30 from Japan.
Super Bowls are customarily referred to by the year fo the season they follow, not the calendar year in which they are held.
Maybe Apple will run a new ad in this year's Super Bowl? (I pick Pats to win but would love to see a Panther upset.)
sulli
RTFJ.
Congrats, you blew open a valuable antique for the ability to run Wintendo on it.
For Christ's sake, while most of us were jacking off to internet porn, this kid tried to make something. Crummy or not, at least he's DOING something more than supersizing his fries and b*tching that there's nothing on TV. So easy to nay-say. Cheers to anyone who does a case mod, regardless of how stupid or simplistic it may be. The rest of us just go out and buy our cases, cars, homes, clothes, everything pre-made and tailored to tastes "prescribed" by marketers. I a big /. fan, but sometimes you guys really suck.
Obviously you are not a football fan. Totally inaccurate to call it the 1983 Super Bowl. In all my years, I've never heard anyone call Super Bowls by the regular season year.
if they wanted to make it l33t..
they should have modified a flatpanel display to work in the mac screen,
and mod the bios to show the 1984 2004 logo on bootup (like many OEM's do on their hardware)
now that would have been cool
I'm tempted to mod my apple IIe now...
If you don't know WTF u r talking about, don't post.
I was hoping for something interesting, not just a bunch of PC parts stuffed into the Mac with a seperate monitor connected to it. And then they run Windows on it? Pitiful waste of time, IMHO. I would like to see someone take the original Mac with all the original hardware - or as much as possible - and do something with it. Maybe load some *nix based OS on it and make it a web server or something. But not Windows!
and bring back the original Macintosh case for 2004. Maybe make a few mods to it, like translucent plastic in 5 different colors. :)
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Use a G3 or G4 CPU and have it run OSX. Use a color 9 inch LCD screen. No floppy but DVD/CDRW drive. Price it low enough to be affordable, like $999USD or something. Would be nice if it was $700USD or lower to compete with the low cost WINTEL PC systems.
Ah well, at least that PC in a Mac Plus can run Darwin.
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You see, this post is just as pointless as that mod.
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
"I had plans as ambitious as the great Dr. Frankenstein. I was going to give a dead soul life once again."
Well of COURSE he had to put an Abbie Normal brain in the thing!
Before I am bumped off the mainpage and am forgotten forever, let this be my last stand.
You are all (mostly) great people, but a bit overzealous. And while the vast majority of you are die-hard, tried and true geeks, most of you (and I apologize to whoever this doesn't pertain to) obviously didn't pass Middle School English class. I base this claim not on a lack of coherence alone, but in the pure fact that you brought up points that were a)questioned before and responded to by myself, and b)were present right in the article itself. I just expected more from you.
Now, to deal with the points brought up. I've answered the majority of these before, but since this will be my last post ont the matter, this shall be it.
1. The SuperBowl issue Upon checking superbowl.com, and seeing the date of the SuperBowl to be February 1st, I immediatly assumed that this was the set date for the SuperBowl to be played. Evidently, I was mistaken. But in seeing that, I jumped to the conclusion, that, unless Apple did indeed figure out a way to time travel, the SuperBowl that the commercial was aired on was the 1983 SuperBowl, played in February, 1983. So, again, I was wrong. And upon further research this morning on superbowl.com, the game was in fact played in January, 1984.
However, does that make it wrong that I called it the 1983 SuperBowl? True, it was played in 1984, but this was the 1983 season. Because I am no football expert, I don't know how it is commonly referred to.
So, this one is a toss-up. But furthermore, who really cares?
2. Using a Macintosh Pro case
You guys get this one. After completing the project and writing the article, I did realize that it was in fact not an original Mac. A bit late, nonetheless, I pressed on. I knew someone here would notice. But I did it anyone. Does that make me a bad person? That's for you to decide.
Point for you
I must leave now, I shall finish this when I return home.
Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle
Uh, that "creepy guy" is Big Brother. My gawd, does anyone read anymore? 1984? Hello?
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There are about 8 diferent DVD "standards" out there, none of them have a writer than can store more than 4.7GB. While that might be nice to have in the short term, put it into some central box with a nice network card. It's so much easier to do things that way than it is to have a DVD for every computer in the house. This little Mac is a specialty box and should get it's media files over the network. A CD or DVD can be used to set it up, if you don't broadband, but it's fairly useless after than, except for movies. While it would be cool to run a big screen with an old Mac box, you can get your movie from your local network.
At the very least, they could have used a front loading DVD player and have extended the orignial slot. I would have left it alone.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Are you kidding, most of the people posting on slashdot weren't even alive yet! :)
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
First, that's not an original Mac, it's a Mac Plus. Secondly, if you wanna see the real thing in action, check out my (shameless plug) Apple Museum. I have a fully functional Mac 128k up there as well as an Apple /// and a Lisa 2/10, both of which work flawlessly as well.
--Z
The thing looks like a tombstone! Sorry, don't like...
-m
http://www.invisik.com
It would have been far cooler if he'd fitted a TFT screen instead of his window. Come to think of it, it would have been better all round if he'd got a modern mac, taken it apart and fitted the gubbins inside the old case.
Yup! The PC motherboard is just wrong.
And what about the Apple 1984/2004 vinyl sign where the screen used to be?
The presence of that sign, with that motherboard visible, implies that Apple has sold out to IBM and the whole PC/AT architecture, in the mere 20 years since the Superbowl ad.
If he'd wanted the insult to be complete, he'd have used Calvin pissing on the Apple.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
This is the moral equivalent of taking a 1984 Honda Accord and packing the engine and transmission from a 2004 Kia Rio into it - pointless in all aspects.
Heheh... Where's dude's "Powered by Kia" sticker across the windshield of the Accord?
(Actually, all we see around here is "Powered by Honda" across the windshields of rusted-out 1984 Accord rice "rockets". I just want to scream to them, of *COURSE* it's powered by Honda, it's a Honda, you *idiot*! At least the Kia motor would demonstrate mechanical, welding and electronic skill, if not intelligence or taste in cars.)
Good swap that I liked, and got to drool over: 1984 Dodge Aries 4-door sedan, with a 1969 Chrysler 440 (7.2L) 6-pack, driving the rear wheels. Tellin' a friend as we pulled into a car show: "There's something with a big motor around here, but I don't see what it is... wait a minute, that K-Car in front of us has a differential and wide rear tires in the back!" Questionable car, subtle, lightweight, makes a *great* sleeper with a real motor under the hood. Guy was telling me later that it runs in the low 10s on the quarter mile. [wiping drool off keyboard...]
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
You don't know that, actually. After all, this commercial is not a verbatim adaptation of the Orwell's novel. It's a free fantasy around this theme created by an artist of no lesser magnitude - Ridley Scott himself (how come people call themselves nerds and omit an excellent oportunity for a "Blade Runner" reference?). Actually, you don't know who the guy on the screen is and who are the bald-headed (real life London skinheads were employed as extras) people listening to his speech. Some viewers describe them as "prisoners", some others as "storm troopers". The script refered to them as "drones", which only adds to ambiguity. The speech of the "guy on the screen" (who might or might not be the orwellian Big Brother) is also rather puzzling:
;-)
My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the State. And today, that great body has purged itself of parasites. We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts. The thugs and wreckers have been cast out. And the poisonous weeds of disinformation have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Let each and every cell rejoice! For today we celebrate the first, glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive! We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is a more powerful weapon than any fleet or army on Earth! We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion! We shall prevail!
It's not written by Orwell. It's written by the guy who gave us "Alien" and "Blade Runner". And like these movies - it's seems simple by face value, but... is Deckard a replicant or not?
You don't need a PhD in English to know it's Big Brother. Read the book. The commercial alludes to "1984." Obviously, Big Brother is on the screen, representing...Bill Gates. Gawd u nerds love to argue.
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If you've got a strong stomach visit Overclockers where you'll find the ultimate desecration of "The World's Fastest Personal Computer". The site may or may not be down by now... to the perpetrator: "Just wait till your father gets home my boy!"