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Posted by: olePigeon on 2013-03-13 10:00:04 I was asked by someone in regards to my Dual Drive LC hack to start a thread so people could post their own personal favorite hacks or mods. These are hacks you did to your own machines that you are particularly proud of. For example, I'll be posting my LC hack because I really like how it turned out. For fun, perhaps everyone could assign an Trash style ™ name to their hack. Also, Trash, you can only pick ONE of your limitless hacks. I know this'll be tough for you. 😉 Also, HackWhining is strictly prohibited in this thread. :-x ------------------------------------ Project: Dual-Drive-LC™ Machine: Macintosh LC Hardware: 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive, 230MB Magneto Optical Drive, 160MB 2.5" SCSI HDD, 10MB RAM, Presto! 040 Accelerator. System: System 7.1.1 Pro Information: It's an original Macintosh LC with both a floppy drive and 230MB MO drive installed in the floppy bays, and a 2.5" SCSI HDD. The HDD is from a broken PowerBook 180 with a 2.5" SCSI to 50-pin SCSI adapter and Y power cable adapter. There are two plastic screws installed in which the HDD fits snugly and securely behind the fan, with the adapter resting parallel upon two oscillators. I had to do some creative cable origami with the SCSI cable, but in the end, it all fit nicely. It has installed 10MBs of RAM and a Presto! 040 accelerator. Networking is handled via MacIP over the Serial Port using an AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge. --
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-03-13 10:19:38 That is one tightly spaced pizza box! 🙂 It's Awesome! So my idea is to do the same hack, but with a Q605/LC475 LB, in a LC-II bottom, LC-1 top, and use a ZIP 100 drive where the hd would normally be. Will be able to install a LC NIC Card, and the FULL 040 will be running at 33mhz , maybe 40 or 42 mhz depending on how ambitious i get 🙂 basically my new low power bridge mac, File Server, everything machine. /w a 320meg Quantum 2.5" hd (mounted some where else in the pizza box) I already ordered the 2.5 to 3.5 scsi cable adaptor, I need to find a molex splitter 🙂 Need to power both HD and Zip Drive. I was going to call mine something too: I was considering: FrankenLC605™ TheLCBeastDD475™ BeastlyDoubleD605™ BigDD'sLC605™ 🙂 Specs: Full 040, 33/40/42mhz 128 megs of ram 230meg HD 100meg SCSI Zip Sony 2mb Auto Inject 1mb vram 2x 512k's LCPDS Apple AAUI NIC CARD
Posted by: olePigeon on 2013-03-13 10:39:03 Sounds good to me. Make sure to post it here. 🙂
Posted by: MinerAl on 2013-03-13 11:38:52 Until I finish my Quadra Classic™, my favorite hack of my own doing is this CC-Zip™.
Posted by: CelGen on 2013-03-13 18:38:01 Touchless NeXT to PC conversion. This is THE best conversion I have ever seen. Fit a good, fast and upgradeable Intel inside with ZERO damage to the cube chassis (it's reversible! :O ). No ragged edges, no sloppy work and no drastic changes to the original style.
Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-03-13 21:43:47 Shiny?
Posted by: Cosmo on 2013-03-14 00:53:07 Shiny? "The whole Cube was cleaned from the old colour and powder coated in a shiny black colour (RAL 9005). I went to a special company for that which is specialized in restoration of vintage cars. However the coating was not that perfect as I expected since there were some bladders and it was not perfectly even - but I think (since I'm not taking part in modding competitions) it's a nice impression."
Posted by: olePigeon on 2013-03-14 09:11:11 Wow, that's an awesome mod. I used to have access to a 3D printer when I worked at a college, but now that I'm working for a junior high school, all the fun toys are gone. 😛
Posted by: onlyonemac on 2013-03-14 09:37:47 No HackWhining? Ahh, too bad. All I say is-I won't hack my Mac.
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-03-14 10:02:28 OOM - Would it be safe to say. You were the most disturbed when jt got out his saws and started cutting up that one? As Far as what I plan on doing should be 100% reversible. Likewise with what olePigeon did here to his RAD LC. I don't normally use the word " RAD " ether. or this 🙂 Funny Thread 🙂 FDHDMaxine went under the knife, Got one of her DoubleD's Upgraded, Received a bonus sexy beauty mark 🙂 viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19942&p=190085#p190085
Posted by: Bunsen on 2013-03-14 14:55:06 I already ordered the 2.5 to 3.5 scsi cable adaptor Where are you guys getting these from?
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-03-14 15:11:46 Where are you guys getting these from? http://www.ebay.com/itm/270840619638?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-03-14 15:15:54 I just got one of those in a box of random goodies recently.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-03-14 15:46:22 Thanks for that link! @ uni, the kid is playing nicely, baiting him isn't nice, play nicely.
Posted by: onlyonemac on 2013-03-15 10:49:03 EEK uniserver! Please don't post those awful pictures of deformed Macs for me to see.
Posted by: Cosmo on 2013-03-15 11:37:24 EEK uniserver! Please don't post those awful pictures of deformed Macs for me to see. Dude, this topic is "Post your favorite Hacks & Mods here!" what did you expect? I've had an crazy thought about Quadra 950 with anything from dual core G5 to MacPro guts inside... oh man!
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-03-15 11:38:59 OOM - Your thinking about it wrong. He is taking something, and creating something else. Can't you appreciate a customization? It's like art with additional utility added.
Posted by: tecneeq on 2013-03-15 12:05:59 I don't have anything to show in the hardware department. But once i wrote a webserver in /bin/sh, that should count for something. 😀
Posted by: tecneeq on 2013-03-15 12:10:56 I guess it's all about how many macs you have. If you have one, or just a few like me, and you don't have a constant supply of new 68k macs, you tend to preserve instead of remix. That said, if you have spare macs to remix, by all means, remix! \|)
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