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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
 Posted - 18 Dec 2003 : 14:28:00
Has anybody ever noticed resemblences between the cases of the LaserWriter II . . . a paper tray . . . a Duo . . . and a Mac IIfx?jt  .
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G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 18 Dec 2003 : 14:52:51
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Has anybody ever noticed resemblences between the cases of the LaserWriter II . . . a paper tray . . . a Duo . . . and a Mac IIfx?
Besides that 75% of them are beige?  You are beginning to scare me, jt.
Speaking of Macs'n'printers and hacks, I had thought about creating an Imagetyper LC - merging an Imagerwriter 1 on top of a monitor-less LC III and using hypercard to send print commands to the printer over the serial port. It would work just like a typewriter - you hit a key and it prints that character where ever the printhead happens to be.
G4From128k
by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 18 Dec 2003 : 15:03:31
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Has anybody ever noticed resemblences between the cases of the LaserWriter II . . . a paper tray . . . a Duo . . . and a Mac IIfx?
Besides that 75% of them are beige?
Spray paint is the great equilizer . . . and it hides the bondo!  quote:
You are beginning to scare me, jt.
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I had thought about creating an Imagetyper LC - merging an Imagerwriter 1 on top of a monitor-less LC III and using hypercard to send print commands to the printer over the serial port. It would work just like a typewriter - you hit a key and it prints that character where ever the printhead happens to be.
I think there's an old shareware program that does that! I've had that kind of thing simmering on a back burner too! You should graft on an SE or SE/30, use a Thunderscan, a Voice/Data/Fax Modem and and Ethernet card/bridge software to create the PaleolithicPaladin+
jt .
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 18 Dec 2003 15:04:46 |
G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 18 Dec 2003 : 15:30:41
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Has anybody ever noticed resemblences between the cases of the LaserWriter II . . . a paper tray . . . a Duo . . . and a Mac IIfx?
So, are you thinking of docking the Duo where the paper tray is? ( a kind of LaserDuoDock) Or are you thinking of a docking/sync station that merges a Duo and IIfx into the case of a LaserWriter and runs the IIfx off the Duo HD for the ultimate file-synced desktop/portable combo? (the Duo-IIf-Duo) 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
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 18 Dec 2003 : 15:41:11
I'm not holding my breath, but hopefully, it'll wind up being a Macintosh IIfPEx. Right now it's just a transplanted 7500 sitting in yet another IIfx case, suffering from delusions of grandeur!  The case hack is coming along nicely, I have two lids, one duct taped upside down to a center section with its base lopped off and all the RFI shielding still fits and is installed. It'll be set up vertically, either on wheels or on feetlets like a Quadra 700 with a sideways logo. I've just gotta figure out if I need to add a drive bay's worth of height! (width) The printer-parts tangent is just daydreaming . . . jt .
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
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Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 18 Dec 2003 15:44:02
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2003 : 00:08:15
I came up with some oddball offshoots of the case mod I'm doing, here's a link to the Illustrator studies I did from an illustration in the service manual pdf.Macintosh_IIfPEx.pdf 48k Even though it's going to be really tight getting a laptop slotloader in there over the processor card, I like it the way it is now . . . but adding a slice of LaserWriter II with those four drive access LEDs and several extra bays is very tempting! Comments? jt .
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF edit: Updated the file, I realized I can put the Optical Drive under the FDD/Zip bays because there's only RAM on that spot of the board! and I'm definitely going to hack in that strip of LED windows and a backlit logo! Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 19 Dec 2003 01:38:20 |
tmtomh
Junior Member
USA
172 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2003 : 16:27:56
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I came up with some oddball offshoots of the case mod I'm doing, here's a link to the Illustrator studies I did from an illustration in the service manual pdf.Macintosh_IIfPEx.pdf 48k Comments?
The pdf file appears to be corrupt - can't open it with Adobe Reader or Preview in OS X. M No rank Current king of my 68k realm:
- "PowerMystic" Color Classic, custom silver case, 66MHz PPC601 card, full '040, 128/2G/enet, OS 8.1 |
Case mod musings . . .
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