Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
. . . even if it doesn't really need to look like it!
For reference/comparison here's a shot of the Minimalist Duo/Dock Mk.I™
I should take pics of it from all angles, this one is over ten years old, but I still pull it out of that big Makita Green Metal Tool Box for testing different things. I need to re-install its Trackball, HDD and upgrade it to 2300gs and get back to the PowerBook 100 hack for which it was all but purpose built. It's a generic Duo Testbed, I worked out the DuoBoomBoxDock™ stereo setup via SAII on this rig already. I needed a convertible top Dock for the DeclROMless active LCD-in-Dock bootup procedures on this rig as well. A few more hacks here and there took place on contents held withinn that big beautiful blue-green metal toolbox! [
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Here's the Minimalist Duo Mk. II™ all gussied up in its Plastic, Chinese made Socket Wrench Case, how times have changed.
When I mentioned to bigmessofwires that I'd be using the Minimalist Duo (up to that point, the onliest one) for testing the FrankenPack™ makeover of my BTI High Capacity MC-DUO2300 battery, I realized the Mk.I wasn't up to that task in short order. Can't run the 2300c off battery when it's docked at all, much less run Battery Amnesia or some such utility to benchmark run times.
OOPSIE!!! :
Hence, the Mk.II Minimalist Duo Hack:
As most of you probably know, there's no way in hell that I was gonna give up a precious TrackBall or besmirch the Plastics of a Duo top plate with spherically correct pointing device chops to do this, but I really like the way it turned out, BlechPad and all! [] ]'>
That TrackPad center section puts me in mind of the centerline hardpoint on the roof of the '79 Pontiac TransAm.
Maybe I'll need to do smoked Plexi Moon-Roof Panels to show off the front two hacks if they pan out. [] ]'>
Come to think of it, I think Chevy copied the TransAm's paneled roof for the Corvette, maybe that Chinese plastic toolbox is sort of fitting, it's certainly lighter!
This one's upside down so all the print is legible, if a bit confusing overall:
You can clearly see the 2.5" IDE/ATA<->Double CF Adapter propped up in the battery bay in the pic above the Muscle Car. It's not readily apparent in these pics, but the Micro-SD<->CF Card Adapter fits very nicely between the top of the Blank Power Card in the Modem Bay and even if I do lose much of it to fit the White CF Slot/CF Card MicroSD adapter in there, one of the forur notches in the CF Cage's PCB lets the Keyboard/Case screw pass right through it! Even if the 2300c could support two IDE drives, I'd still have to excise the black slot for clearance. I've got so may of these little adapters that I can probably find a more compact solution in the boxen. But this setup puts all the right pieces of all the right sizes at all the right levels in all the right places for a Modem Bay hack . . .
. . . maybe! [:O] ]'>
This one has been going on and off since about 9/11, it's the infamous TREX ASIC PCMCIA DaughterCard from the 1400 transplant to the HDD bay of the 2300c Hack.
For most of the intervening twelve+ years, I didn't have DOA 1400 and 2300 boards to dissect, but that's not been true for a while now and waiting any longer to get started on that one is not to be endured . . .
. . . at least not for sometime after the FrankenPack™ Hack! [] ]'>
Almost forgot, those little brass doohickies sticking out into the roofless battery bay of the Mk.II . . .
. . . that's where the alligator clips from the ProtoPack Lashup to be built into the lid of the plastic toolbox/project case will be doin' their thang! [}] ]'>
For reference/comparison here's a shot of the Minimalist Duo/Dock Mk.I™
I should take pics of it from all angles, this one is over ten years old, but I still pull it out of that big Makita Green Metal Tool Box for testing different things. I need to re-install its Trackball, HDD and upgrade it to 2300gs and get back to the PowerBook 100 hack for which it was all but purpose built. It's a generic Duo Testbed, I worked out the DuoBoomBoxDock™ stereo setup via SAII on this rig already. I needed a convertible top Dock for the DeclROMless active LCD-in-Dock bootup procedures on this rig as well. A few more hacks here and there took place on contents held withinn that big beautiful blue-green metal toolbox! [
] ]'>Here's the Minimalist Duo Mk. II™ all gussied up in its Plastic, Chinese made Socket Wrench Case, how times have changed.
When I mentioned to bigmessofwires that I'd be using the Minimalist Duo (up to that point, the onliest one) for testing the FrankenPack™ makeover of my BTI High Capacity MC-DUO2300 battery, I realized the Mk.I wasn't up to that task in short order. Can't run the 2300c off battery when it's docked at all, much less run Battery Amnesia or some such utility to benchmark run times.
OOPSIE!!! :
Hence, the Mk.II Minimalist Duo Hack:
As most of you probably know, there's no way in hell that I was gonna give up a precious TrackBall or besmirch the Plastics of a Duo top plate with spherically correct pointing device chops to do this, but I really like the way it turned out, BlechPad and all! [
] ]'>That TrackPad center section puts me in mind of the centerline hardpoint on the roof of the '79 Pontiac TransAm.
Maybe I'll need to do smoked Plexi Moon-Roof Panels to show off the front two hacks if they pan out. [
] ]'>Come to think of it, I think Chevy copied the TransAm's paneled roof for the Corvette, maybe that Chinese plastic toolbox is sort of fitting, it's certainly lighter!
This one's upside down so all the print is legible, if a bit confusing overall:
You can clearly see the 2.5" IDE/ATA<->Double CF Adapter propped up in the battery bay in the pic above the Muscle Car. It's not readily apparent in these pics, but the Micro-SD<->CF Card Adapter fits very nicely between the top of the Blank Power Card in the Modem Bay and even if I do lose much of it to fit the White CF Slot/CF Card MicroSD adapter in there, one of the forur notches in the CF Cage's PCB lets the Keyboard/Case screw pass right through it! Even if the 2300c could support two IDE drives, I'd still have to excise the black slot for clearance. I've got so may of these little adapters that I can probably find a more compact solution in the boxen. But this setup puts all the right pieces of all the right sizes at all the right levels in all the right places for a Modem Bay hack . . .
. . . maybe! [:O] ]'>
This one has been going on and off since about 9/11, it's the infamous TREX ASIC PCMCIA DaughterCard from the 1400 transplant to the HDD bay of the 2300c Hack.
For most of the intervening twelve+ years, I didn't have DOA 1400 and 2300 boards to dissect, but that's not been true for a while now and waiting any longer to get started on that one is not to be endured . . .
. . . at least not for sometime after the FrankenPack™ Hack! [
] ]'>Almost forgot, those little brass doohickies sticking out into the roofless battery bay of the Mk.II . . .
. . . that's where the alligator clips from the ProtoPack Lashup to be built into the lid of the plastic toolbox/project case will be doin' their thang! [}
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