Macintosh 68060 Redux

[zigzagjoe]

Thanks! I took styling hints from the IIcx to the point where I was even measuring features with calipers. The "minor" lines on the front hide the primary vents, there are secondary vents in the vicinity of the picoPSU as well as the 060/cache board to draw air over the heatsink. I hadn't thought about setting up for an external floppy (actually, floppy never crossed my mind at all...), but I have plenty of space on the rear panel so I might do that...

 

[olePigeon]

@zigzagjoe What app do you use for modeling? I've often toyed with the idea of reproducing some of Frog Design's prototypes and making them into real products. There's a guy on YouTube who did that with Apple's really slick MessagePad/Phone combo unit. Another guy (same guy?) did it with the Apple //c prototype.

 

[zigzagjoe]

@zigzagjoe What app do you use for modeling? I've often toyed with the idea of reproducing some of Frog Design's prototypes and making them into real products. There's a guy on YouTube who did that with Apple's really slick MessagePad/Phone combo unit. Another guy (same guy?) did it with the Apple //c prototype.

Autodesk fusion. While I'm not in love with being in bed with autodesk, I learned autodesk inventor around 20 years ago and that's how my brain works when thinking about these things now. It's not the easiest thing to do aesthetically pleasing stuff in, I'd say, but great for engineering tasks.

 

[olePigeon]

Last time I used AutoDesk was AutoDesk R12 on Windows 3. I have free access to their online version through my education account, but I found it very confusing.