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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.
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...
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
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What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
It was the Super Bowl in 1984, but since the rest of the season was played in 1983, it could be called the 1983 Super Bowl. The simplest solution is the use the full thing -- like next week's would be the 2003-2004 Super Bowl (or Super Bowl XXXVIII).
Add a dual head AGP card to the mix and you can run your own sized screen and get the mac case to be a virtual fish tank or actually use it in the mix, or whatever takes your fancy. I'd be impressed with that, but this is just bleh.
Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
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!
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
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
Only a SE/30, or maybe a SE should be destroyed like that, and then only if they don't work. Older then those and they're starting to become collectors items, and some people will pay well for a working 128 or 512 mac.
Ya I know, I have a soft spot for compact Mac's.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
If he put an LCD display in, he could make it run vMac. That'd be neat.
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As I recall, there were two popular types of hard drives for the original Mac:
1) Floppy drive port. Several vendors sold HDDs that plugged into the Floppy port. All these drives were known to be very s-l-o-w.
2) Hardware modification. I owned a Hyperdrive for my Mac M0001. In a nutshell, a daughter board was attached to the CPU. My Hyperdrive was a 3.5" hard drive, 10 MB capacity. The Hyperdrive upped my RAM to 512k, and a small fan was added to the case to keep it cooler (the fan exhausted thru the top left rear vent).
Despite the fan added by the Hyperdrive folks, my Mac had a heat problem on hot days.
In any case, my Mac with Hyperdrive was the envy of the Apple universe. Later I upgraded my Mac to 512kE specs when the Mac Plus came out - that upgrade consisted of new ROMs and a 800k floppy.
In all, that Mac lasted me from 1984 until 1990. Pretty darn good, athough at the end I was really hot for a SE/30. In 1990, I sold it via a classified ad for something like $600!
Should just have gutted a Cube, swapped the vid (would have to be PCI) and add a 1.4 GHz processor upgrade and it would be a fitting rebuild. But this is a travesty. I'd rather see a fishtank than to have a Mac defiled in this manner.
The potato it is uninformed.
I plainly stated it wasn't a stock item! :) Hell, This M0001 next to me has 1 MB of RAM. I swear to god! The SCSI is a centronics 50 port (rather than a DB25 that would later become standard) that sits vertically on the top-back of the mac. The system boots off of a SCSI 30 MB hard drive. (This was added much later that 1984, IIRC, but the original manuals that I acquired with the system were in a house fire... ::sob:: The hard drive itself, amazingly, was in the fire, too, but it still boots. The system is running system 6.0.8. I wish I'd had a chance to talk to the guy who gave it to me. He just wanted rid of it. I assumed it was a classic, or something quite mundane, until I looked closer when I got it home. I was quite surprised to see I had a piece of history (for free!)
By gods, that IS an IPOD! Nice adbusting. Can you adbust your own ad?
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Though not mentioned on Apple's site, that's not the original commerical. It was modified for the 20th anniversary and was first shown at Mac World this year. What you're looking at has been CGI enhanced... The iPod insertion is almost flawless.
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See http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/01/07/19
Welcome to the down side of digital editing and CGI. You can re-write history.
Well I think your mod was pretty neat. It's a nifty portable case for a decent LAN party puter. Surely beats the boring "neon lights case with perpsex sides" that you can buy for $100.
Only thing I would have done different is mounting the DVD on the side with a slot-loading drive. That way the front facing appearance would have been more "natural".
I'm still trying to figure out what world you people live in... I'm no "leftie".
I'm a gun owner. Infact I belong to various orginazations related to guns and their use. This alone is enough to get me labled as a right-wing freak by most of the country.
I'm all for having as little government as possible.
Etc.
I don't know where you get that our philosophy is "disposable and corrupt.", when the leader you praise so much is invariably more corrupt than you could hope to imagine.
Really, you come in here, without a shred of evidence to support your claims (especially when all indications point the opposite way), tantamountally say that anyone who dosen't support bush dosen't know what the fuck they're talking about, and go just about as far to say we're treasonists. You know what? This guy deserves no faith. Faith is for the gods, of which I can assure he is not.
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
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.
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.
For those wondering how well this modder is taking the verbal slashdot beatings, take a look.
Conclusion: not well. Not well at all.
And to the parent: excellent use of the word "gubbins."