- Joined
- Feb 27, 2012
- Messages
- 32
- Motherboard
- Mini in a Commodore 64 case and a G4 Quicksilver
- CPU
- i5 3.4 GHZ
- Graphics
- EVGA GeForce 210 1024MB
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hello fellow Hackers and Modders,
I really need for y’all to get excited for me about this. If this crowd doesn’t, nobody will! This week I hit the case modder’s jackpot and became the owner of 11 vintage macs. One of them needs to become my next Hack victim. My wife is being politely excited but she doesn’t really get it. She says things like, “Wow, honey, I’m really happy that you like that.” And when I showed her the craftsmanship and quality of the G5 and how the internal plastic shroud comes off she said, “look at that, you can put your fingers in there.” Don’t get me wrong, I know she could be saying, “what did you bring those old things home for?” so I am really grateful.
So which one should be my next project? Here is the lineup: One Macintosh Plus, a G4 Cube with pro keyboard, pro mouse, studio display, and eyeball speakers, a 15” G4 iMac with pro keyboard, pro mouse, and eyeball speakers, three G4 Graphite Powermacs, a Mirror Door G4 Powermac, a Quicksilver G4 Powermac, a G5 Powermac, a grape G3 iMac, and a graphite G3 Powermac. (Both G3 iMacs have the original keyboards.) When I got all these, only two of them worked, but so far I have gotten them all working except the G5 and the Mirror Door, which is pretty much stripped of everything but the mobo. A couple of them are LOADED with creative design and publishing software. All of them are in nearly perfect condition, cosmetically.
I would LOVE to Hack the Cube but I would only do it if I could really do it right, keeping the touch power button, handle, etc., and I am not confident enough in my electrical wiring and design abilities to pull that off. The Macintosh Plus would be cool to mod with an iPad for the workings, but I kind of hate to destroy an original working classic. (I’m still carrying around guilt for doing that to my Commodore 64). I already have a cool G4 Powermac ( http://www.tonymacx86.com/case-mods/55635-g4-powermac-mod-candy-apple.html ) so I don’t feel inclined to do any of those. The G5 would be really cool and there are lots of good resources available to use as guides but that lends itself best to a really powerful machine, which is not in my budget and I don’t need that. So what I am leaning towards the most is one of the G3 iMacs. I think it would be super-cool to build inside that translucent case and have some color coordinated LEDs glowing in there. What do y’all think? If I do that, which one? Grape with purple LEDs or graphite with blue LEDs? Any thoughts?
I really need for y’all to get excited for me about this. If this crowd doesn’t, nobody will! This week I hit the case modder’s jackpot and became the owner of 11 vintage macs. One of them needs to become my next Hack victim. My wife is being politely excited but she doesn’t really get it. She says things like, “Wow, honey, I’m really happy that you like that.” And when I showed her the craftsmanship and quality of the G5 and how the internal plastic shroud comes off she said, “look at that, you can put your fingers in there.” Don’t get me wrong, I know she could be saying, “what did you bring those old things home for?” so I am really grateful.
So which one should be my next project? Here is the lineup: One Macintosh Plus, a G4 Cube with pro keyboard, pro mouse, studio display, and eyeball speakers, a 15” G4 iMac with pro keyboard, pro mouse, and eyeball speakers, three G4 Graphite Powermacs, a Mirror Door G4 Powermac, a Quicksilver G4 Powermac, a G5 Powermac, a grape G3 iMac, and a graphite G3 Powermac. (Both G3 iMacs have the original keyboards.) When I got all these, only two of them worked, but so far I have gotten them all working except the G5 and the Mirror Door, which is pretty much stripped of everything but the mobo. A couple of them are LOADED with creative design and publishing software. All of them are in nearly perfect condition, cosmetically.
I would LOVE to Hack the Cube but I would only do it if I could really do it right, keeping the touch power button, handle, etc., and I am not confident enough in my electrical wiring and design abilities to pull that off. The Macintosh Plus would be cool to mod with an iPad for the workings, but I kind of hate to destroy an original working classic. (I’m still carrying around guilt for doing that to my Commodore 64). I already have a cool G4 Powermac ( http://www.tonymacx86.com/case-mods/55635-g4-powermac-mod-candy-apple.html ) so I don’t feel inclined to do any of those. The G5 would be really cool and there are lots of good resources available to use as guides but that lends itself best to a really powerful machine, which is not in my budget and I don’t need that. So what I am leaning towards the most is one of the G3 iMacs. I think it would be super-cool to build inside that translucent case and have some color coordinated LEDs glowing in there. What do y’all think? If I do that, which one? Grape with purple LEDs or graphite with blue LEDs? Any thoughts?