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Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 03 Apr 2002 : 23:23:31 allright! how many of you will admit to knowing about this? how many of you will admit to NOT knowing about this? which is actually more embarrassing? Meet MacCharlie: http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/charlie.html jt ™
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 03 Apr 2002 : 23:50:55 quote: allright! how many of you will admit to knowing about this? how many of you will admit to NOT knowing about this? which is actually more embarrassing? Meet MacCharlie: http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/charlie.html Thats pretty danged cute! and the overlay/extra keys for the keyboard is very funky.. dana (didn't see that one before)
AnubisTTP Junior Member USA 308 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 06:49:39 I actually did know about that thing already because there is a link to it somewhere on www.jaghouse.com. I have to wonder how many of them are actually still in existance. AnubisTTP 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:15
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 08:25:33 MacAddict briefly mentioned it a while ago...otherwise, I hadn't heard about it...LINKS project candidate? -------------------- keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ --------------------
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 08:48:24 quote: MacAddict briefly mentioned it a while ago...otherwise, I hadn't heard about it...LINKS project candidate? u-betcha! jt ™
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 09:44:47 Man, I would soooooooooooooo love to hack my LC475 Mobo and a 18GB hard drive into that case! 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 10:07:47 quote: Man, I would soooooooooooooo love to hack my LC475 Mobo and a 18GB hard drive into that case! MENGELE LIVES! Butcher! jt ™
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 10:25:14 Butcher, perhaps, but is there a really alot of use for the Charlie in it's original form, anyway? 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 10:40:18 it also links to a nifty thing about an Orange Micro 386 card http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/O386.html -------------------- keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ --------------------
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 10:41:40 quote: Butcher, perhaps, but is there a really alot of use for the Charlie in it's original form, anyway? it's an historical artifact, it must be saved for educating posterity! and playtime! jt ™
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 10:42:46 Cine, if you had 2 of them, I suppose you could use one in a hack, but if you only have one...that's just sinful -------------------- keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ --------------------
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 11:03:20 quote: Cine, if you had 2 of them, I suppose you could use one in a hack, but if you only have one...that's just sinful besides a big@$$ diamondplate takeoff of the sucker would be a lot more interesting and i wouldn't help you hack the proper mouse and keyboard to be able to use it! =8-P i was just posting to a fritter discussion where somebody was hacking a PC into an SE/30 case. why don't you fake up a Lisa/MacCharlie milspec "protoptype" from a couple of dead SE's and use a cammie paint scheme to cover up the bondo? stretch it to use an old green phosphor herculese graphics monitor/card combo from the PC and one of those godaweful LC pds boards to run it from an original LC mobo on the mac side. that would be a really funky 68kMLA hack! i think they also had SE boards that'll do TTL graphics. jt ™ Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 04 Apr 2002 11:06:03
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 18:28:03 I read about it once in UK MacUser, but it didn't have much on it, just a commetary about old and laughable things. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 00014 Macs liberated
Wonkothesane Full Member USA 506 Posts	Posted - 04 Apr 2002 : 20:28:40 This originally appeared in Byte magazine in the mid 80's. People thought it was some kind of joke. Wonko The Sane Engineer-in-training 3 Macs Liberated "You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool."- Wonko The Sane

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