1993 Mac Color Classic (No name yet)

Blishdot · Jun 5, 2010

Quick Background: About a year ago I found a 1993 Macintosh Color Classic on the side of the road and had to pick it up, though I had no idea what I was going to do with it. When I built my new rig in December the thing was still collecting dust in the corner of my room. A little less than a month ago I found this site and got completely addicted to browsing the case mods section and seeing all of the awesome things that people do with their old cases. I also started getting into Folding@Home and realized that my Macbook wasn't really getting anything done. These things gave me the idea to run my old computer out of the Mac Color Classic case as a full time folding computer. So I went out to Home Depot, picked up what I needed (very little, it turns out) and got started on the build. It has only taken me about 3 hours to get to where I am now (which is pretty far into the mod) but I'll put this up in steps anyway. This is my first actual case mod so It hasn't turned out perfect

Also, I'm very sorry for the bad picture sprinkled in the post, i took them quickly so i could get back to whatever i was doing.

Heres the plan:
1: Gut all tech from the chassis
2: Fit in the micro ATX motherboard
3: Cut out acrylic window to fit monitor hole
4: Reassemble
5: Enjoy

I got carried away with the screwdriver so here are the first pictures I took of the mod

Please suggest a name iif you can think of one

Blishdot · Jun 5, 2010

Case Gutting:

Gutting the case took a while and the documentation is only somewhat complete.

The naked CRT

The motherboard

The front plate with floppy drive and hard drive. The motherboard went in the bottom and the CRT and tan board went on top

Front and back reunited without anything between them

OutOfBalanceOX · Jun 5, 2010

i love me an old mac, subbed

Hellfighter · Jun 5, 2010

Oooh, this is going to be good!

TheBlademaster01 · Jun 5, 2010

One of my favorite songs by Charlie Parker, Scrapple from the Apple, seems to suit your project's name

Blishdot · Jun 5, 2010

Here is the hard part.

I originally though that the motherboard would fit easily without any modding. That was a big mistake.

I thought i could only need to make a shallow cut with the plastic cutter to give it extra clearance

But that didn't work

Next i brought out the hand saw for a little extra oomph

but it just wouldn't fit

so i brought out the not-so-exact power tools because I dont have the money for a jigsaw

and after about an hour of tiny cuts i ended up with two gashes across

the sides of the case and a motherboard between them

I accidentally cut all the way through on one side but it still fits into the front panel.

Hellfighter · Jun 5, 2010

Would a Micro-ITX board have worked better?

legoman786 · Jun 5, 2010

Pfft... Some bondo will patch that up right quick!

Blishdot · Jun 5, 2010

Now for the window

the panel cut down and marked (lazily) for the vga cable

the first holes for the bigger hole

and thats where i am so far. Ill update when i finish the panel and put it back together

Blishdot · Jun 7, 2010

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hellfighter

Would a Micro-ITX board have worked better?

It probably would have, but i may have forgotten to mention that im just working with what I had from my old computer.

Quote:

Originally Posted by legoman786

Pfft... Some bondo will patch that up right quick!

Where do you get bondo? ive looked for it but havn't had any luck

1993 Mac Color Classic (No name yet)

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