MiniQuadraFeetsMac™

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

8-o I just found this pic while googling "AppleDesign" and have never seen a Q700 equipped with any other feets than the rubber Ho-Chi-Minhs from the IIcx/IIci. Has anyone ever seen a Q700 with these Q900 feets in the wild?

GREAT site, BTW!

Not quite as great as I originally thought, the post ignores the APD and the Graphite Towers . . .

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/the-evolution-of-apple-design-between-1977-2008/

Sorta takes the wind out of the sails of my MiniQuadraFeetsMac™ Hack :-/ . . . whatever . . .

Apple's version would still die in a quick and gruesome manner were it misplaced on a carpeted surface! }

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Here's a shot of the completed Hack:

I haven't "right-sized" any of the howto or dedicated "finished" pics yet, but they'll be done any day now . . . :-/

 

[LCGuy]

Have to say, that does look awesome...I was unaware that there were ever any other feets made for the Q700 apart from the standard ones though. Maybe they're a third party add-on?

 

[superpantoufle]

8-o I just found this pic while googling "AppleDesign" and have never seen a Q700 equipped with any other feets than the rubber Ho-Chi-Minhs from the IIcx/IIci. Has anyone ever seen a Q700 with these Q900 feets in the wild?

Mine only has one or two of its feet remaining, but I think those look similar to your picture. I'll have to check, though!

 

[LCGuy]

Eek! Those feets look sweet! (hey, that rhymes)

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Eek! Those feets look sweet! (hey, that rhymes)

< sighs > . . . < remembers the maniacal Eeeeeekkks! of days long past > :'(

 

[Dog Cow]

I think that that is not a photograph, but rather a computerized 3-D rendering. Thus, the artist was at liberty to add anything he wanted.

And as a side-note, Wikipedia has some real badly-composed / poor-quality photographs, just from looking at that article. :-/

 

[Danamania]

My Q700 came with a couple of those feet, from memory rattling around in the bottom of the box it came in - they're rubber and they clip in the case from the bottom. They flip about and are kinda wobbly just-for-show pieces.

http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290335180130 shows them installed, including a pic of the underneath, and how they fit.

Dana

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

MANIAC! :-*

Why didn't you ever mention the MINIQuadraFeetsMac? :?:

"Two left feets -n- F*****G UGLY Shoes!"

Brockovitch Mode>

Whatcha think of my Q700 Triplets' Retro High Heeled Platform Feets?

I figured if anything would precipitate the return of the ManiacalEeeeeeeeeeekSter it'd be a MiniQuadraFeetsMac™ Hack!

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Finally Figured out how to RightSize piccies wiyh the F-Spot Program in the ubuntu NetBook Remix I've been running on HP_Mini ever since XP-Home3 pulled a typical "MicroSoftOS_Meltdown!" FEH!

. . . whatever . . . here b d firstest pic scaled down on HP_Mini!

This is my own version of a practical/useful MiniQuadraFeetsMac™ Hack! [] ]'>

My Q700 triplets were complaining incessantly about the awful condition of whatever was left of the handful of remaining HoChiMinhs they had between the three of them. Ultimately, that didn't matter, because they'd been tasked to support a MacShelf™ and their rubber feetswear was NOT up to the task of keeping their lil' air intake vents functional while they were to be sitting on the carpeted floor . . . soooooo . . .

The sneaky little MetroSexualMiniQuadras wanted to do it up in BIG TIME Retro-CAMP! }

Their new feetswear was specifically designed to be much larger/higher than that of their sibling's, my Quadra 950 has pathetically dainty lil' feetlets for such a MachoMan! The pesky trio kept badgering me to let them go HighHeeledDiscoPlatformStylin' to boot! (so to speak ) ) So, naturally enough, I took the project way over the top, with industrial/adjustable height, Hex Head Heels and a platform heel setup made out of scraps from some of the MacFurniture™ they were destined to support.

Anyways, while i'm on vacation, I'll try to post some piccies of the hack process.

All kidding aside, . . . < 8-o . . . did I just say that!?! : . . . > this is a great little trick to make practical use of part of a 68k collection, while retaining the ability to hook 'em up and run 'em without burning them up by blocking their air vents in the carpet . . . and BTW, leveling the shelf, with Q700 panache, all at the same time! [] ]'>

 

[Mars478]

Wait, I think one of my IIcis has the feets! Will post PICTURES~!~!

 

[LCGuy]

Very nice. Just be careful you don't scratch the floor with the bolts! (i bring this up because my parents are anal about me putting a mat underneath any computer equipment that goes on the floor, lest I scratch it, since we have wood floors)

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Thank you,comrade! :beige:

That said:

If you've got wood floors you don't need this hack, the standard "HoChiMinhs" will do nicely. If they're missing, self adhesive rubber pads (the clear/colored ones for furniture) would be the most simple/effective choice! [] ]'>

Unless the floor is carpeted, you don't need the feets hack at all. if you're not leveling a MacShelf™ you don't need the "high heels" and rubber pads would be better on a solid floor/surface.

If you want to do it for the looks alone, it'd be/look better to use a much thinner "platform" to tie the feets together and then add the rubber pads. I used a one piece 3/4" MDF Platform with 3/4" MDF laminates (I had a lot of MDF scrap and cutoffs lying around) for the feets' "risers" for simplicity. They're meant to hold the Q700s on their "platforms" and the radius of the semicircular portion/width of their "tombstone" cross-section was determined by size of the holes I needed to tap for the 3/8" Hex Bolts selected for the leveling heels.

If you're not lazy, there's no need to remove the inner set of plastic "brackets" the way I did. Several were broken/chipped after their HoChiMinhs fell off, long before I acquired my Q700 Trio, so I felt no pressing need to cut slots in the Platform for the remaining brackets. The Platform is unattached, the Trio just sit on them, locked in by the "risers" side to side, and by the outer pairs of brackets, front to back. The could be restored to their feetless mode just by lifting them off and installing rubber pads . . .

. . . whatever, it seemed like a good idea at the time . . . and it works! }

This is just another of my "Practical Mods" that barely qualifiy as a "Hacks" to begin with. But I thought it'd be really to create the MiniQuadraFeetsMac™ from the only (or so I thought at the time) feetless member of the Quadra family. [] ]'>

 

[Dennis Nedry]

I think that that is not a photograph, but rather a computerized 3-D rendering. Thus, the artist was at liberty to add anything he wanted.
And as a side-note, Wikipedia has some real badly-composed / poor-quality photographs, just from looking at that article. :-/

The original picture posted in this thread is actually a picture I took of my Quadra 700 and uploaded to Wikipedia! This is a real picture, and the feet are real.

WIN

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Here's the original with alpha channel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macintosh_Quadra_700.png

 

[Dog Cow]

The reset and interrupt buttons look weird. The whole photo looks weird.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Well I guess I don't know how to respond to that. It's a real picture of my unmodified Quadra 700. The only modification I made to the image was to the shadow so that it has alpha transparency. I have taken several pictures of my old Macs in this fashion, with a close-up angled perspective, then turning the shadow into alpha. I took these pictures with a single light source to make that shadow, which at the time was not extremely bright, so some of these images are lacking in sharpness when you view the large version, but my intention was for them to be viewed shrunk down in the articles. I believe that the ones that I did look good and give a good perspective; you generally can see both the front and side profiles.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

I agree that many of the pics on wikipedia are terrible, that's kind of why I took such time and effort with the limited equipment I had to make these Macs appear to be perched on a cloud. Here are all the wikipedia pages I can find of mac stuff for which I have uploaded images:

68k Macs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_IIci

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadra_700

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_TV

PPC Macs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_5500

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_6500

Printers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_LaserWriter_NTR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StyleWriter_1200

Monitors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Monitor_II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorMonitor_IIe/AppleColor_Composite_Monitor_IIe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_AudioVision_14_Display

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Color_Plus_14%22_Display

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleColor_High-Resolution_RGB_Monitor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Color_Display

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Performa_Plus_Display

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Multiple_Scan_14_Display

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Multiple_Scan_15_Display

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_ColorSync/AppleVision_750_Display

Once I have the space and time to take my collection out of storage, I intend to make pictures of the rest of my Macs in a similar way, and possibly redo these pics with a better camera and brighter light source to reduce how blurry and grainy some of them are when you view the large version.

 

[Dog Cow]

I think the problem I'm having is that these photos don't look real enough. To me, they just look like a 3D rendering of the object, and there's just infinite space behind. Try putting the item into a definable background, and I think that would help. Also, you might be over-processing the photos too, which doesn't help, IMO.