WHOA ....

[CaryMG]

Have a look at this .... > "MacMinitosh"

:b&w:

 

[ChristTrekker]

Delightfully insane, those case modders and hardware hackers.

 

[bluekatt]

very nicley done though id rather see a color screen or color lcd

if i had the know hwo id had a go at it

 

[MacMan]

I had the chance of some 9" colour VGA CRTs once but unfortunately they got trashed before I could get them. Hopefully I'll come by one some day and then maybe a similar project could be in order! I always think the mods look better with CRTs than LCDs as the compact Mac cases were designed to accomodate the "bulge" of the tube's glass.

 

[~tl]

IIRC most 9" colour CRTs are too long to fit inside the case of a compact...

 

[MacMan]

Ah, that would make sense. The ones I saw were from old POS terminals and basically looked like miniture PC monitors. The compact Macs are amazingly short-arsed in comparison.

 

[gobabushka]

I had the chance of some 9" colour VGA CRTs once but unfortunately they got trashed before I could get them. Hopefully I'll come by one some day and then maybe a similar project could be in order! I always think the mods look better with CRTs than LCDs as the compact Mac cases were designed to accomodate the "bulge" of the tube's glass.

couldnt u create a plastic insert for the top and bottom

 

[Mac128]

Seriously this is a topic that belongs on Applefritter ... nevertheless, I think Tom Lee would agree with me that cutting up these old boxes rather than restoring them is sad unless they are already damaged beyond restoration. However, that said I think MacMan is correct in that you need to fit the design of the case which took into account the shape of the monitor. This takes the "plastic insert" approach and proves my point:

http://apptree.net/macsex.htm

It just looks wrong as does this:

http://ww1.tiki.ne.jp/~jm4vnq/classic/index.html

A classic example of this is the PowerMac 5200 series. Apple designed it for the Sony Trinitron monitor like the Color Classic and LC 520 series. But at the last minute, they switched to a regular curved tube and the result is just awful looking.

If I were going to put an LCD in a case, I'd try to find a curved glass or plastic substitute. I might even cut the front off an actual dead CRT.

Whatever you do, please don't destroy a 128K, 512K for a Mod these are the rarest of cases.

If you're going to mess with the overall case design, I'd rather see these kinds of mods anyway as it saves the case and the guts:

http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/setv/index.html

http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/cube/index.html

http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/proto/index.html

 

[Quadraman]

My only problem with that is, why bother with a b&w CRT when you could mount a small color LCD in there instead?

 

[~tl]

My only problem with that is, why bother with a b&w CRT when you could mount a small color LCD in there instead?

IIRC the problem used to be that 8.4" LCDs (i.e. ones that fill the whole opening of the screen) had too much of a bezel around the edge to fit inside a compact's case. That was a while ago that I remember hearing that, so I'd bet that that isn't the situation any more.

 

[joshc]

Apple used to link to that very page a while back on their mac mini page - back when it was a PPC machine...