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Behold the 24th Anniversary Mac

by Dave Caolo Jan 21st 2008 at 9:30PM

Forget the TAM. I want this thing.

David Clausen decided to celebrate the Mac's longevity by making something special. So, he gutted the case of a 512K Mac (the case is in great shape, by the way), then inserted the workings of a Mac mini and a grayscale monitor. Add to that a LS-120 floppy disk drive and a custom-built USB microcontroller (to use the original mouse and keyboard), and you've got one badass compact Mac. For more detail, check out the Flickr Set.

All because he wanted to "...experiment with creating a custom USB device." That's one heck of a device. Hey Dave, if you decide to sell these, let me know.

[Via Adam Tow]

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Bizzkit

My first Mac was a 512K. Definitely a closed system. Had to cut a hole in the battery compartment to dangle a SCSI cable out the back to add a 20 mb hard drive.

January 22 2008 at 10:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Simon Arch

"the case is in great shape, by the way"

That's all well and good, but I hope the system itself was non-op. I hate seeing these old systems gutted and "improved" when the original hardware worked well. I'll grant you there's not much need for a Fat Mac these days, but ruining a perfectly good computer for a mod like this...it seems wasteful.

January 22 2008 at 1:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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john

Heck i thought 24 years ago computers were mega ton mainframes. way to go Mac http://andpcs.com/Computers-and-Networking/Apple-Macintosh-Computers

January 22 2008 at 12:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
link.dupont

I would love to be able to type on that keyboard again. The tactile feedback that keyboard gives is like none other I've found these days. Springy for the win!

January 21 2008 at 10:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Stephen Lang

You can type on those keyboards now, if you use a ADB-USB adapter like the Griffin iMate (about $30, plug and play compatible with Leopard and older).

I'm typing this on an Apple Extended Keyboard that I bought on EBay for $20. The combined price of the 2 is still much cheaper than the price of a Matias Tactile Pro or something like that.

January 22 2008 at 11:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cycomachead

sweeeeeet!!!!


Would be cool to mod more accessories to work with newer things like a CD/DVD drive (in an old floppy enclosure)

oh and an external monitor would be nice to have, just to make it more useful.

January 21 2008 at 10:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Viper007Bond

Haha, what an awesome mod.

January 21 2008 at 10:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eli

He should take the external hard drive and put it in a Mac Plus hard drive enclosure.

January 21 2008 at 9:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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