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Macintosh TV?!

Applemeister

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The damage on that is not too bad really, and it looks like it has been glued together. As for the keyboard and mouse, try checking the eBay UK as Apple shipped black PowerMac 5400s and 5500s with matching keyboards here. You do see the keyboards quite often and they tend not to demand a very high price (but shipping to the US might).
Alternatively, spray a normal keyboard black!
The keyboard wouldn't be the type that shipped with Mac TVs, though :(

When Apple designed the Macintosh TV, their target customers were students who didn't have enough space in their rooms to accommodate, both, a computer and a television set; so they married the two together and shipped it with a space-saving Apple Keyboard II in a black finish.

It may be rare, but I'm not too sure if I'd want to fork out $25 for one in that condition and minus peripherals, though. See if you can bring him down to $10.

 

The Macster

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Alternatively, spray a normal keyboard black!
Is the casing on the Mac TV identical to on the LC series machines that look similar? If so, you could maybe paint one of those cases black and use the innards and nameplate of the broken Mac TV to make an undamaged one, with a lot of work? Painting a Keyboard II would be impossible though wouldn't it, as there would surely be no way of getting the letters back on the keys?

 

MacMan

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Painting a Keyboard II would be impossible though wouldn't it, as there would surely be no way of getting the letters back on the keys?
Probably. I think you can get key transfers though as a friend of mine did that to convert her English notebook keyboard to Russian Cyrillic. Took alot of time and patience but it was do-able.

To vent some musings though, I would love a Macintosh TV but I have never seen one in the flesh (mainly because I live in the UK). I'm sure a few have probably found their way into the country but I've yet to hear of one.

 

The Macster

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I think it would be almost more annoying to have a trashed one than not have one at all though, as you're so close to having a rare Mac but it's in really bad condition - it would just really irritate me. Though if my idea of painting the casing from an AIO LC would work then it might be worth getting.

 

Quadraman

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If it were cheap enough, I'd grab it for parts. Most of the guts can be transplanted to other Mac models from the same era, but the case looks like it was dropped off the desk.

 
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