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Famed modder goes fruity with an Apple IIGS

by Cory Bohon Apr 14th 2008 at 10:00PM


Ben Heck, known for his many mods (including the recent PS3 laptop mod), has outdone himself by creating an Apple IIGS laptop. He started with an original Apple IIGS motherboard and added a custom acrylic keyboard, 15" color screen, and a CompactFlash-based hard disk. Most notably, a glowing blue Apple II logo was added.

You can see the up close pictures on his website. He also has a video of the mod that will not disappoint.

[via Engadget]

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Ben Heck, known for his many mods (including the recent PS3 laptop mod), has outdone himself by creating an Apple IIGS laptop. He started...
 

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Ben

No crap!? IIGS was my first pc! It took 20 minutes to load paint, no lie.

April 15 2008 at 7:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
fzzydice

What an ignorant, insensitive headline.

April 15 2008 at 9:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan

Here is the link. It got stripped from my first post

The Apple IIgs Portable Experiement.
http://www.apple2.org/AppleIIgsPortables.html

April 15 2008 at 2:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan

Something similar has been done before.

Check out The Apple IIgs Portable Experiment which is from the 90's.

However, I think this is a better mod.

April 15 2008 at 2:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cyberwhore

You refer to him as Ben Heck when his full name is actually Benjamin Heckendorn. Engadget can get away with shortening his name as they deal with him directly but what makes you think TUAW can?

April 15 2008 at 1:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Simon Arch

Isn't it what he calls himself?

April 15 2008 at 2:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

This guy is AMAZING...but when is he going to get a host that can display his site and handle all the traffic he gets every time he does one of these sick mods? COME ON MAN!

April 15 2008 at 12:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeremy

Almost word-for-word the Engadget Article posted an hour before this one. Bravo, TUAW! Team Redundancy Team is an epic win.

April 14 2008 at 10:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Louie Mantia

says at the bottom: Via Engadget

April 14 2008 at 11:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alex

Comand-C Comand-V
You could at least add a few more details

April 15 2008 at 4:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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