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SiliconValleyPirate
Junior Member
United Kingdom
273 Posts |
 Posted - 24 Sep 2002 : 23:40:22
Behold. My First Mac hack!
http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson/q805.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson/805-1.jpg
To explain a little further....
1. I took the lids of 2 LC machines, one was an LCIII with a 475 board in and the other a plain old slow and crappy LC which I didn't want, and put then back to back.
2. I then drilled 6 holes through both cases and bolted them together. I did plan where I put the holes but some still came out in awkward places.
3. Having tightly bolted them back to back I then marked out a square in the inside where I could cut out to allow the CPU and estra drives to vent through to the fan and a SCSI ribbon through.
4. I cut out the hole using a jigsaw, it's no mean feat I can tell you, Mac cases self heal!! I had to cut the hole out about 3 times around to get it free and even then the waste had to be levered out with a screwdriver 'cause the gap I cut kept fusing back together!
5. I tidied up the hole a bit and cut my finger
6. I lined the hole with duct-tape to avoid the metal sheilds, which had done for my finger already, doing for my SCSI cable.
7. I attempted to fit the two bases of the two machines on the lids as the were now bolted. I had to trim a few bits to avoid pretruding bolts and things but it wasn't too hard.
8. Fitted 1 hard disk, 1 floppy and the rest of the guts of the 475. Hurrahh! It works. No big surprises there....
9. Took the second PSU form the LC and rigged a wiring lash to take power directly off the PSU to a hard disk (to assist the other PSU I decided I'd hang the other 2 hard disks off a separate unit) or two.
10. Rigged a SCSI ribbon from the logic board to the hard disk on the 475 side and then from there to a 50-pin socket that sprouts out at the side of the hole in the lids. I then plugged another ribbon into the socket and extended it to the other two drives to be fitted.
11. Extensive SCSI Voodoo....
12. Fired it up and hey presto, a Quadra 805 with 3 hard disks all running inside a compact tower style case Specs are:
25MHz LC040 (will change ASAP)
2.1GB+512MB+350MB Hard Disks
68MB RAM
System 7.6.1
What do you guys think? Any more suggestions?
I am trying to get another blanking piece to fill the other LC drive slot, to make it look professionalish. I am also looking for a full 040 for it to make it a proper Quadra--
Mark Benson FlatPackMacs http://fpm.gotdns.com 2nd Lieutenant - 68kMLA, LC Quartermaster
Flat Packing Macs for 68k MLA airlift excercises 
Macs Liberated = 14! |
shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2002 : 02:14:47
looks coolcongrats [;-)] shaktiman Quadra 840av, 128MB ram, 2MB vram, cd drive(caddy),1 caddy!:-)
1.2 gig drive, 4.23 gig drive
3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1 56k modem,
Stylewriter 1200, Umax 1220s scanner
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catsdorule
Senior Member
Canada
1627 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2002 : 05:28:54
Ooo thats cool now to get a cd-rom drive in there  .-Danny
"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." |
~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2002 : 06:03:25
Nice, if wierd.  ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
Mayor of NuBus City v3.0
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Milo
Starting Member
27 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2002 : 18:50:10
IIRC the G4 towers had a feature in the CD-ROM drives that you could flip a switch, and make the whole durn tower rack-mountable... thus the CD-ROM drive could be used vertically....Or perhaps a tray-loading one from a Q650? that might work well... jus my 2¢ Milo
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candyPunk
Full Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 26 Sep 2002 : 09:34:50
I don't suppose you'd have much use for 2 floppy drives? That would be sort of pointless from a functional standpoint, but oh-so-cool-looking. Hmm, sort of like all case hacks! { candyPunk }
{ Captain of Observation, 68k MLA }
{ 68k Macs liberated: 3}
{ My baby: Q660av } |
SiliconValleyPirate
Junior Member
United Kingdom
273 Posts |
Posted - 09 Oct 2002 : 17:10:06
Got some better piccies of my hack. I'll add a link to FPM some time.--
Mark Benson FlatPackMacs http://fpm.gotdns.com 2nd Lieutenant - 68kMLA, LC Quartermaster
Flat Packing Macs for 68k MLA airlift excercises
Macs Liberated = 14! |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2002 : 15:15:34
Aaaaaahhhh!!!!!! ITS AlIVE!!!!!Either way, great hack. I believe you probably got your idea from the vHack that our Muse did ages ago? -------------------------- "I keep my friends close, but I keep my enemies closer" - Unkown Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
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candyPunk
Full Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2002 : 18:08:34
Where are the new pics?{ candyPunk }
{ Captain of Observation, 68k MLA }
{ 68k Macs liberated: 3}
{ My baby: Q660av } |
Quadra 805 alert!!
68k of the Week: kastegir's PowerBook 180.