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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.
Sorry, the "1984" ad was aired during the 1984 Super Bowl. Duh.
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The spot aired on Jan. 22, 1984, the date of that year's Super Bowl.
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That's the default, silver etched I believe it's called. Highly recommended.
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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",
A couple of third-party vendors popped up back in those days that managed to retrofit a SCSI port into old pre-Plus Macs using little daughterboards that fit in the ROM sockets. You'd move the ROMS onto the daughterboard. I know this because I was one of those vendors.
Yes.
The SCSI port has the same hardware addresses as the one in the Plus, and Plus ROMS were available as an upgrade for older Macs, so no special drivers were required - any SCSI drive that worked on the Plus would work on these cards.
Many of the memory upgrades of the day for the older Macs included a SCSI ports. A few vendors didn't route the cable out of the box and instead provided an internal drive - the GCC HyperDrive and Levco Prodigy did this.
He could have at least used a better PSU.
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He used rounded cables but his PSU had power connector clutter like no other.
Oh but it does!
Timeo idiotikOS et dona ferentes
That won't replace the progress splash, however. For that you need to do a resEdit hack of the System file. It's actually pretty simple. Open the System File in ResEdit, locate the resource pict(s), copy, edit, c 'n p back into the same resource in the System file and save.
The potato it is uninformed.
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
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