I remember the release of the Macintosh Classic back in those heady days of 1990. I wanted one desperately. A sweet 9” display, all-in-one form factor, and, in the high end version, a 40MB hard drive. Crazy. I find it somewhat unbelievable that I have files that won’t even fit on a 40MB hard drive nowadays.
Anyway, modder James Colby acquired a Mac Classic and wanted to turn it into a jukebox for his house: a perfectly reasonable plan. Of course, the Classic’s a little underpowered for such a task, so James decided to gut the Classic and replace its innards with a Mac mini, complete with 9” LCD display and new power supply. Only two things were modded externally: the opening for the floppy drive was widened to accommodate CDs/DVDs and a small window was added for the IR receiver.
The mini boots up into Front Row, yielding the perfect Mac Classic/mini jukebox for all of your raging dance parties. James provides some extremely basic instructions for those interested in repeating his project. Me, I think I’ll stick with not having to cut the front of a cathode ray tube off.
[via Gizmodo]
