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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.
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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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 original Macintosh had no SCSI port. Hard disks were connected via the RS-232 port, I believe.
Since the page seems to be loading slow, I've mirrored it here.
That's the default, silver etched I believe it's called. Highly recommended.
Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle
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
If he put an LCD display in, he could make it run vMac. That'd be neat.
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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...
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
Oh but it does!
Timeo idiotikOS et dona ferentes
take a piece of historical text, then modify it to fit your current needs. Could not have been more Orwellian.
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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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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
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.
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