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B&W StudioDisplay 17 MacQuarium-n-MoBo Project

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-05-12 15:20:45 Quite a while back, I liberated an $11.99 B&W StudioDisplay after testing it in the Thrift Shop. Apparently, one needs to run these things for more than a couple of minutes before discovering Failing-Flyback antics. At any rate, I've been meaning to gut this thing like a fish for quite some time. It was supposed to be the insectivor ridden habitat/feeding station for the twelve years and counting, MacAntFarm™ Hack. Whatever, it's now finally TOAST, with a gaping hole in the middle begging for some kind of fried Easter Egg with Hackin'daise sauce. [😀] ]'> The Plastic Fish have been happily living, and apparently reproducing, in a cardboard box for the 8 years I've been down here in NC's Bermuda Triangle. So I'm thinking this hack may go more in the way of a Zero Maintenance Plastic Pet Pool than the MoBo/LCD and second monitor on the rope kinda deal I was first set on doing. It will still be getting a MoBo that will support a VidCard to fill my 32" 720p LCD TV/Monitor with pictures in frame mode when it's not busy playing VHS Tapes-n-DVDs. You've just gotta love that loooong High Quality VGA-Out Cord on this thing. [😉] ]'> Here's an overview shot of the HackChassis . . . . . . the ex-AB, now MoBoBay . . . . . . the CRT Based MacQuarium restraint assembly . . . . . . the easy access Blue Pop-Top Popped . . . . . . the easy access RFI Cage Top Popped . . . . . . and a view from the front with both Tops Popped for easy MoBo access . . . . . . after I got those annoying connectors between the B&W parts ground off, the Blue and Metal Tops are easy to Pop for convenient access to MoBo & MacQuarium. Luckily, very little cleaning is involved since the Plastic Pets have no food I/O subsystems! No feeding makes it ever easier to maintain, just H20 and Air Bubbling away in it makes for happy, frolicking fake fish!

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