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3D Image of Macintosh Plus / Classic case

System6+Vista

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Of course it's by no means authentic looking, but I'm pretty pleased with this $25 'case' that I bought via eBay that's designed to hold a iPhone 6/7/8. It's made of silicon, they also make a larger model for those iPhones in the plus size. It hints at just how easy it (hypothetically) could be to make a full sized compact Mac replica with the perfect dimensions to, say, hold an iPad in there. In the image here that's actually my iPhone XS with Korg's iElectribe (app-ification of their hardware drum machine) on-screen. Product: https://www.elago.com/m-stand_iphone/m4-stand-for-iphone-8-iphone-7-iphone-6s-iphone-6-classic-white

Of course many people have adapted a broken real Mac's case to hold an iPad or mounted a LCD monitor in there. If any great examples come to mind, please feel free to share them as I've seen some over the years but probably have missed many. I want to create mine using 3D Printing for what I think are obvious reasons, but what do you all estimate the cost, effort, challenges, to be? I have zero experience with 3D printing and minimal CAD experience.

I started collecting vintage Macs in 2009. In the 13 years since, Ive seen so many disk drives die that I'm done with using floppies no matter how much fun the noise & dragging them to trash for auto-eject still is. The built-in B&W monitors are a) also dying eventually b) a real pain to work on c) power hungry and non-ideal for many reasons. When I think about keeping an original Macintosh going for 30-50 years, it suddenly feels a LOT harder than I used to consider. If a 3D printable case was damaged, it could be re-printed. It could be modified to hold whatever makes much more sense in the future than today's iPad. I've not gotten into emulators much at all but WOAH the Mini vMac is extremely authentic. I am aware that Apple would not allow for an authentic replica (unlicensed) to be sold commercially.
 

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