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Tombstone Mac

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mcdonnell Starting Member 11 Posts	Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 21:53:22 Just finished my summer vacation project. http://www.geocities.com/johnmcdonnell/radiomac/ Taking suggestions for a better name than "Tombstone Mac"... Thanks!
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 21:57:48 Man, that is soooo fine... Submission to AppleFritter coming, I hope? ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City v3.0
thelip Full Member USA 729 Posts	Posted - 27 Aug 2002 : 22:15:09 my 17" display is also missing the adjustment cover thing!!! sweet hack, btw _______________________ Sgt. Thelip Heavy Weapons Specialist - 950 division Liberated Macs: 12 SEE IF MY NEWTON IS ONLINE AT nsa68k.kicks-ass.net *
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 28 Aug 2002 : 04:24:30 Excellent hack -- I especially like the perfectly positioned rainbow Apple logo on the lower-front. Now if you only had some way of covering the monitor in wood veneer or a olde-timey desktop patterns to match that beautiful radio..... Hmmm.... other names: LoFi Mac, Quadra Radio Mac, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" Mac, FDR's Quadra, WPA MAC. Keep on hacking, G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent & User of the Hockey Puck Mouse of Radial Symmetry
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 28 Aug 2002 : 08:54:39 quote: FDR's Quadra Fireside_Chat_Mac jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 28 Aug 2002 : 09:14:45 quote: quote: FDR's Quadra Fireside_Chat_Mac jt ?. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF LOL! I'd suggest iFireside_iChat_iMac, but it would put the lawyers of the black turtlenecked one into a tizzy. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent & User of the Hockey Puck Mouse of Radial Symmetry Edited by - g4from128k on 28 Aug 2002 09:15:28
jruschme Junior Member USA 196 Posts	Posted - 28 Aug 2002 : 09:56:06 quote: Man, that is soooo fine... Submission to AppleFritter coming, I hope? Agreed. I gotta ask... how does the startup chime sound on that big speaker with nice resonant wood case? <<<john>>>
Flash Full Member Australia 637 Posts	Posted - 28 Aug 2002 : 10:03:43 Awsome! 68k ParaMedic
kastegir New Member USA 58 Posts	Posted - 28 Aug 2002 : 10:58:03 Wow, very cool indeed.
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 28 Aug 2002 : 11:02:03 quote: quote: Man, that is soooo fine... Submission to AppleFritter coming, I hope? Agreed. AMEN! I just came back from lookin' for it over there and was gonna threaten to post a link to it here if you didn't post one over there soon! That's a GREAT hack! Where'd you get that proc? The heatsink on your 040 looks just like the one on the proc I pulled off my Rocket33 for my feetsmac! The only thing i can possibly think of to make that beauty any more impressive would be to take out the PDS NIC and install an LC PDS ProAudioSpectrum 16 and a slot in the back to keep the line-level stereo i/o breakout box on an open shelf under the floppy drive. you'd be all set with a microquadra mpegdec workstation hooked up to your stereo system ready and waiting for markymark's 68k RipApp release. OOH! Any plans to install a tray loader in there to go with the floppy? Thassa" LOTTA room in thar! Kudos, and welcome aboard, comrade! jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 28 Aug 2002 : 11:46:21 Wow, very, VERY nice! One of the better hacks I think any of us have seen lately! Boy, I really need to a get a dremel tool so I can finish some of my projects.... 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 My Site: http://cine.sytes.net My Hotline Server: 840av.sytes.net
mcdonnell Starting Member 11 Posts	Posted - 28 Aug 2002 : 11:54:52 quote: Submission to AppleFritter coming, I hope? Sent an email to Tom Owad yesterday asking if he would include it. quote: I gotta ask... how does the startup chime sound on that big speaker with nice resonant wood case? Really rich sound - wired in the original speaker from the radio. quote: Where'd you get that proc? The heatsink on your 040 looks just like the one on the proc I pulled off my Rocket33 for my feetsmac! The CPU is the orginal from the motherboard (LC68040) - the heatsink was attached when I received the mb from a vendor on Ebay. quote: Any plans to install a tray loader in there to go with the floppy? Hadn't considered a tray - good idea. I'll have to work on that one!
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 29 Aug 2002 : 00:03:21 NICE! I like it! -------------------------- "I keep my friends close, but I keep my enemies closer" - Unkown Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 29 Aug 2002 : 19:24:07 That is just beautiful! You'd better not have destroyed a working radio to make it, though. I'd never even think of hacking a Mac into my Hammarlund HQ-129X receiver! If I were to do that, I couldn't listen to the BBC News and Radio Netherlands! And I'm not likely to liberate any more Hammarlunds for $15, either! [tube-obsessed radio amateur rant] And why did you have to strip it of its tubes? The radio won't warm up on top after a couple of hours of listening! The cat won't sleep on it! You'll never experience the glow of cutting-edge all-tube technology! The five to twelve volts from the Mac power supply can't ever compare to the hundreds of volts surging into the plates of vacuum tubes! A tiny switching power supply cannot take the place of rectifier tubes and huge filter capacitors! The radio will never seem alive again! YOU HAVE REMOVED ITS SOUL! [/tube-obsessed radio amateur rant] Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert OpenStep Page at http://openstep.topcities.com/ Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180 PCs liberated from Windoze: 3
mcdonnell Starting Member 11 Posts	Posted - 29 Aug 2002 : 20:47:52 quote: That is just beautiful! You'd better not have destroyed a working radio to make it, though. I'd never even think of hacking a Mac into my Hammarlund HQ-129X receiver! quote: The radio will never seem alive again! YOU HAVE REMOVED ITS SOUL! Not to worry oldmanmac - you'll notice this is a "special commemorative edition" Philco; probably built around 1982. No warm, glowing vacuum tubes were lost - just a few cold, cheap transistors. Its soul is in a better place now - the landfill.
mcdonnell Starting Member 11 Posts	Posted - 27 Sep 2002 : 22:50:44 Decided I'm going to part with this. If you're interested, here's the Ebay link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2057916844 Thanks!
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 27 Sep 2002 : 23:27:34 Why do you want to get rid of it? That is a awesome hack!!! Oh well hope you get some good money for it! -Danny Forum: http://www24.brinkster.com/catsdorule1/ "Windows(win-doze): A 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell of an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit processor by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."

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