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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.
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.
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