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HAL's most recent project: Apple Mac Mini IIe

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On occasion I feel the urge to do some kind of project, from building a small server farm to setting up websites for my friends. Well I got bored a couple of days ago, and was poking around in my garage, spotted my old Apple IIe and noticed that a leak in the roof had caked it in water, a closer look revealed it was in fact, finally... dead. So I decided to set myself a new project. I also have an old Intel Mac Mini knocking about, so I saw a merger in my mind.

I started by replacing the old CRT screen with a spare 15" LCD Dell Monitor, then removed the motherboard etc from the base unit, removed the keyboard, stuck my Mac Mini and a couple of external hard drives inside. Wired it all up, plugged it all in. And here's the result:

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I'm definitely going to replace the wireless keyboard that at the moment is just sat on top of the base unit with an old IBM one I have that should fit, but I need to find a COM port to USB adapter or some sort of other solution to get it all hooked up, but all in all I'm pleased with the result so far.

Thoughts?

P.S. if mods think this should be in all things apple then fair enough, I just thought that as it was a project it goes here... Also Please no thread crapping or insults, if you want to insult me for some reason the please feel free to PM me 😉
 
Ya looks good!


I would market it to an Art Gallery!


Reminds me of my original imac fishtank project that I never finished..
 
manimal said:
Ya looks good!


I would market it to an Art Gallery!


Reminds me of my original imac fishtank project that I never finished..
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Hah, yeah that would be fun, never had one of those iMacs and i've never had a fish so not for me, but good idea.
 
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