Comments on: 24th Anniversary Macintosh

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:00:08 +0000

Hey, if someone would like to attempt this hack, or make a fish tank or whatever, I have a couple of classics and a classic plus. I’ll sell them to you for cheap, make me an offer. I also have a commodore 64 with all the peripherals, games and books. spencer richard haley at gmail dot com.

By: Suika

Suika — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:28:42 +0000

He might want to improve the airflow of the original
case by adding some fans since there is about two to three times as much power being dissipated by the new guts.
If a core duo mac mini is being used then I'm surprised it hasn't been crashing as these tend to run a little hot even when not stuffed into another case.
I suggest adding a few small fans on the top vents in side the case and some ventilation slots on the bottom of the case.
Also on the keyboard and mouse hack that's very nice esp by not requiring any drivers and it still hooks up like stock.
It now has a better keyboard then carpel tunnel inducing one that comes with the new imacs.

By: Koray

Koray — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:59:19 +0000

Thanks smackjack and alphabeta!.. Now I see.

K.

By: Thundersqueak

Thundersqueak — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:27:28 +0000

sounds similar to how I got an old commodore 64 keyboard to work when I built a PC inside it using an ITX board. Makes a nice media PC :)

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:06:14 +0000

i once saw a great use for an old mac. it envolved taking everything out and only using the needed items....... like fish. or a lizard.

http://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/MacAquarium/images/IgorMusial/macquarium8.jpg

By: smackjack

smackjack — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:23:22 +0000

Koray,

There's some information regarding the use of the internal mac monitors at:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/eviltim/macmp3/macmp3.htm

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:27:45 +0000

woa, that’s not bad

By: cde

cde — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:38:20 +0000

:( Never any love for micropics :(

By: alphabeta

alphabeta — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:00:06 +0000

@ koray
He didn't hook up the original monitor. He did the same thing that I did when I hacked an SE/30 which was to find a normal monitor that could be retro-fitted inside the Mac case. The old Mac monitors are very limited in terms of their capabilities and it would be very hard to make them work with a modern RGB or composite input.

See my writeup here for more info:

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/mac%2Ditx/

By: Koray

Koray — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:39:42 +0000

Unfortunately there is no mentioning of how he hooked the macmini up to the original B&W CRT monitor. Any ideas?.. K.

By: shuffle2

shuffle2 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:54:46 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2189297629&size=o

By: Dr. UNIX

Dr. UNIX — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:30:09 +0000

What about the cooling?
I remember that overheating the 512k was a huge problem back in the day. There was a smokestack like device you could buy to help improve heat dissipation. I cobbled together a 120V fan to the top of mine.