[s]Ultimate[/s] Sacrilegious retro casemod

[Bunsen]

Go on, I dare ya!

 

[Quadraman]

I wonder if you could transplant an SE 30 into it.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Dang....

I am very tempted to get that to transplant either a conventional ATX computer, or a Power Mac G4 motherboard, in to.

 

[Scott Baret]

Bonus points if you adapt that CRT in your mod. I like Quadraman's idea about an SE/30...just imagine if that SE/30 had a bigger screen in there too!

Perhaps one could even replace the CRT with a similar sized one and have a built-in colour monitor...I'd imagine a 12" Apple RGB might fit.

 

[LCGuy]

I wouldn't hack it - I'd buy it to transplant a crappier Lisa's guts into.

 

[John8520]

Are lisa monitors MDA like SE & SE/30 are? if they were I'd totally put one in.

 

[Bunsen]

According to everymac the dimensions are 15.2" H x 18.7" W x 13.8" D.

The monitor is a 12" monochrome.

I'd imagine a 12" Apple RGB might fit.

So yeah... but no colour with an SE/30 motherboard.
My wild guess is there'd be room for a Beige G3 motherboard in there, possibly an AGP G4. Lots more room if you went LCD on the monitor.

Pff Power Colour Classic. Call that a casemod? pchtooie

Of course, it'd have to boot up into full-screen LisaEm by default [] ]'>

 

[Bunsen]

I wouldn't hack it - I'd buy it to transplant a crappier Lisa's guts into.

Man if that wasn't in the US I'd be warming up my dremel as we speak }

No, in truth if I was to casemod it, I'd try to keep the case completely stock, and the new components completely stealth. That way it could always be returned to virgin Lisa status if I got bored with it.

ie not like this: UR DOIN IT RONG

to transplant either a conventional ATX computer

Them's lynchin' words round these parts .... /edit/ but I suppose you could run GlobalView or GNUstep or LisaEM on it

 

[paws]

Will you kick me out if I say I think it's kind of ugly?

 

[Bunsen]

Rather than an SE/30, take a leaf out of the Poor Man's Greyscale project and stick in an LC475 or Quadra motherboard and a 12" Apple High-Resolution Monochrome Monitor. An ADB keyboard and mouse should go quite well with it.

 

[mac-man6]

Is anyone else thinking "Get that out of the Sun! you'll yellow the plastic" ?

 

[MacMan]

I agree with Bunsen that an LC / Quadra series Mac would be pretty good for a mod. Using the existing CRT wouldn't be too much problem if you fancied a bit of wiring, the only thing is that it would limit you to monochrome (all the more retro-cool in my opinion).

 

[MultiFinder]

ie not like this: UR DOIN IT RONG

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... That be just a wee bit fugly.

 

[II2II]

ie not like this: UR DOIN IT RONG

Ugh. I think that I'd rather see a Mac converted into a toilet than that mess.

 

[SiliconValleyPirate]

ie not like this: UR DOIN IT RONG

DO NOT WANT

I'd beat that guy up not because he ruined an SE/30 but because his modding is just shite. Talk about sloppy :\

 

[QuadSix50]

ie not like this: UR DOIN IT RONG

DO NOT WANT

I'd beat that guy up not because he ruined an SE/30 but because his modding is just shite. Talk about sloppy :\

I'm surprised that site put up that monstrosity as a featured project, what with some other good ones I've seen on there like the Mac-ITX project. Very very poor execution for a mod. That shouldn't even have made the page at all.

To this day, I don't think I've seen anything better than that 512k Macintosh mod with the Mac mini inside using the original keyboard and mouse.

 

[II2II]

To this day, I don't think I've seen anything better than that 512k Macintosh mod with the Mac mini inside using the original keyboard and mouse.

Wowa. That sounds nice. Do you have a link?

 

[QuadSix50]

To this day, I don't think I've seen anything better than that 512k Macintosh mod with the Mac mini inside using the original keyboard and mouse.

Wowa. That sounds nice. Do you have a link?

The 24th Anniversary Mac:

http://www.dclausen.net/projects/tfam/

 

[Bunsen]

Yeah. His stealth port adapters for the new motherboard are exactly what I was thinking. The guy who did the ITX Commodore SX-64 did something similar.

Meanwhile: anyone going to buy that Lisa shell?