The Mac Minitosh

posted Feb 6th 2006 11:00am by
filed under: macs hacks

minitosh

Hack-A-Day reader [Lee Olivares] stuffed a Macintosh Plus full of new hardware without butchering the case. From the original test fit he could see that the Mac Mini’s DVD slot lined up well with the original floppy slot, so it just needed to be widened a little bit for clearance. The monitor is black and white, but a separate VGA port has been split off for an external monitor. The original motherboard was cut down so that the original power switch and ports could be used. Any new ports were hidden behind the battery cover.

[thanks Lee and Adam]

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15 Responses to The Mac Minitosh

  • digitalmaddog says:
    February 6, 2006 at 12:09 pm

    great hack i did one a while back with a via 500 and wireless i en=ve did the mac aquarium i love these little machines there are so many options you can do with them i may have to go back to do another viamac

    good find

    dm

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  • digitalmaddog says:
    February 6, 2006 at 12:09 pm

    great hack i did one a while back with a via 500 and wireless i en=ve did the mac aquarium i love these little machines there are so many options you can do with them i may have to go back to do another viamac

    good find

    dm

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  • stew says:
    February 6, 2006 at 12:59 pm

    Hooray, shmoocon coverage is over!

    Nice hack. Love mixing old and new.

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  • halokiller27 says:
    February 6, 2006 at 7:37 pm

    I am just hoping that appla releases a X86 Mac Mini, and valve releasing a dedicated server for OS X

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  • illwill says:
    February 7, 2006 at 1:07 am

    does anyone have any information on how to re-use the monitor to connect to a standard vga port on a motherboard.. would love to stuff a linux box into my old one since it wont matter that the screen is black and white

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  • rmiller021 says:
    February 7, 2006 at 6:56 am

    #5 He did not use the original monitor. From the pictures i am guessing it is a tiny monitor from a point of sales system.

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  • El Toozero says:
    February 7, 2006 at 1:37 pm

    The monitor was gutted, it was dead, a new B&W SVGA CRT for POS was used (as rmiller021 noticed) the model is Miracle MT217 http://www.miraclebusiness.com/mt217.htm

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  • de SurGeon says:
    February 8, 2006 at 5:15 am

    If you read the mod carefully, you’ll see he didn’t use the original CRT, but rather used one with better resolution and better color (well no color, but 256 grays instead of B&W). Overall a great mod though!

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  • Artypete says:
    February 8, 2006 at 8:57 pm

    you should check out my Mac Mini Portable Project;
    http://homepage.mac.com/peter_green/MacMini_Portable_Project/index.html

    I’ve built the worlds smallest [that I know of!] footprint G4 Mac that can be used as a handheld battery laptop

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  • illwill says:
    February 9, 2006 at 3:02 am

    if you read my post properly i wasnt asking if he
    used the old crt im asking if anyone has ever tried to mod an old one

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  • bearings says:
    March 3, 2006 at 11:12 pm

    i think it’s innovation.but not useful

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  • Dennis Barrett says:
    May 12, 2006 at 12:10 am

    Has anyone put a mac mini inside a tray loading iMac?
    Or just used the tray loading iMac monitor connected to a mac mini?

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  • autobearings says:
    July 31, 2007 at 11:30 pm

    i think it’s innovation.but not useful

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  • bearings says:
    December 25, 2007 at 8:15 am

    it’s so cool

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  • bearings says:
    December 25, 2007 at 8:16 am

    it’s so cool

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