Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
Quite a while back, I liberated an $11.99 B&W StudioDisplay after testing it in the Thrift Shop. Apparently, one needs to run these things for more than a couple of minutes before discovering Failing-Flyback antics. At any rate, I've been meaning to gut this thing like a fish for quite some time. It was supposed to be the insectivor ridden habitat/feeding station for the twelve years and counting, MacAntFarm™ Hack. Whatever, it's now finally TOAST, with a gaping hole in the middle begging for some kind of fried Easter Egg with Hackin'daise sauce. [] ]'>
The Plastic Fish have been happily living, and apparently reproducing, in a cardboard box for the 8 years I've been down here in NC's Bermuda Triangle. So I'm thinking this hack may go more in the way of a Zero Maintenance Plastic Pet Pool than the MoBo/LCD and second monitor on the rope kinda deal I was first set on doing.
It will still be getting a MoBo that will support a VidCard to fill my 32" 720p LCD TV/Monitor with pictures in frame mode when it's not busy playing VHS Tapes-n-DVDs. You've just gotta love that loooong High Quality VGA-Out Cord on this thing. [] ]'>
Here's an overview shot of the HackChassis . . .
. . . the ex-AB, now MoBoBay . . .
. . . the CRT Based MacQuarium restraint assembly . . .
. . . the easy access Blue Pop-Top Popped . . .
. . . the easy access RFI Cage Top Popped . . .
. . . and a view from the front with both Tops Popped for easy MoBo access . . .
. . . after I got those annoying connectors between the B&W parts ground off, the Blue and Metal Tops are easy to Pop for convenient access to MoBo & MacQuarium.
Luckily, very little cleaning is involved since the Plastic Pets have no food I/O subsystems! No feeding makes it ever easier to maintain, just H20 and Air Bubbling away in it makes for happy, frolicking fake fish!
The Plastic Fish have been happily living, and apparently reproducing, in a cardboard box for the 8 years I've been down here in NC's Bermuda Triangle. So I'm thinking this hack may go more in the way of a Zero Maintenance Plastic Pet Pool than the MoBo/LCD and second monitor on the rope kinda deal I was first set on doing.
It will still be getting a MoBo that will support a VidCard to fill my 32" 720p LCD TV/Monitor with pictures in frame mode when it's not busy playing VHS Tapes-n-DVDs. You've just gotta love that loooong High Quality VGA-Out Cord on this thing. [] ]'>
Here's an overview shot of the HackChassis . . .
. . . the ex-AB, now MoBoBay . . .
. . . the CRT Based MacQuarium restraint assembly . . .
. . . the easy access Blue Pop-Top Popped . . .
. . . the easy access RFI Cage Top Popped . . .
. . . and a view from the front with both Tops Popped for easy MoBo access . . .
. . . after I got those annoying connectors between the B&W parts ground off, the Blue and Metal Tops are easy to Pop for convenient access to MoBo & MacQuarium.
Luckily, very little cleaning is involved since the Plastic Pets have no food I/O subsystems! No feeding makes it ever easier to maintain, just H20 and Air Bubbling away in it makes for happy, frolicking fake fish!