News, info, and opinion by Mac users, for Mac users.

October 18, 2007

geekery

How far we’ve come: modding a Mac inside a Mac

Posted Oct. 18, ’07, 9:40 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Geekery

Classic MiniI 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]


Leave a comment

 



Visit other IDG sites: