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nextchef
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 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: IIgs laptop mod - from benheck.com |
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Amazing what a talented artist/craftsman can do with acrylic.
Imagine walking into starbucks and pulling this out of your bag.
http://benheck.com/04-14-2008/apple-iigs-original-hardware-laptop
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Link to the youtube vid, as his site is still getting hammered with traffic.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oYlPjlGUL9I
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dravier
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:00 am Post subject: |
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wow! That is amazing. Okay, this is the guy we need to talk to about moding a NeXT setup for a modern look. Just need to supply him with the gear to do it.
Just amazing...
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helf
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:53 am Post subject: |
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heh, I inquired about him doing a laptop mod for a NeXTstation if I supplied the parts. Waiting on a response...
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nextchef
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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| helf wrote: | | heh, I inquired about him doing a laptop mod for a NeXTstation if I supplied the parts. Waiting on a response... |
With the size of the NeXT motherboard, that would be a large laptop indeed.
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kb7sqi
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Location: Winston Salem, NC
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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The IIgs was a pretty cool pre-mac system. Back when I was in the Air Force, stationed up in Alaska, I found this old computer store. I got to know them well in there after purchasing quite a bit of stuff.  I eventually started doing some Mac's repairs, etc for them. But they had this huge "inventory" of old Apple II systems. I built myself a really sweet maxed out IIgs system for basically nothing. It was a great for all the old games. I had a blast w/ that system. I had it setup next to my Atari TT/030 & Amgia 4000 Toaster system. I know computers are 100 times faster today, but they really don't have the "excitement" alot of the systems in the 80's/early 90's did. I can still remember the fun I had soldering my Sinclair zx81 together.  Those were the days. Seeing those pics makes me want to dig out that IIgs emulator I have for my NeXT. It's around here somewhere. It'd be fun to boot it up again. It's been along time. That laptop is awesome. |
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dravier
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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Agreed nextchef, a NeXT laptop would be difficult given the size of the mainboard. But, a nice rework of the station design or the cube... maybe even the Mac / NeXT retro machine concept. Whatever it is, it would definitely be cool to see.
Where was this guy like ten years ago when there was a bunch of talk about a company selling bare-bones G3/4 systems. The biggest thing they lacked was a case... alas.
As to kb7sqi, my true and full-fledged intro to computing was a little later than the Apple II / Sinclair days but I do miss the glory of older systems. For me is was my 386 DOS 5 beast... 4 mb ram, 124 mb HD, 2400 bps modem with a 3.5 and 5.25 floppy. Wow, it was a machine to fear when it came outta that shiny box. I actually still have a DOS notebook around for those memories (a Grid 286 w/ an amber display, 3.5 and 2mb ram, forget the HD size). I can get lost on it for hours...
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kb7sqi
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| dravier wrote: | | As to kb7sqi, my true and full-fledged intro to computing was a little later than the Apple II / Sinclair days but I do miss the glory of older systems. For me is was my 386 DOS 5 beast... 4 mb ram, 124 mb HD, 2400 bps modem with a 3.5 and 5.25 floppy. Wow, it was a machine to fear when it came outta that shiny box. I actually still have a DOS notebook around for those memories (a Grid 286 w/ an amber display, 3.5 and 2mb ram, forget the HD size). I can get lost on it for hours... |
Well, I'm probably a little bit older.  Yeah, the cool thing about the old days was the fun learning how the system truly worked. Atleast for me anyway. After I decided to "mod" my zx81, before I put it in a pc style case, it'd take up a whole table. I handwired my own keyboard using wirewrap wiring & cmos 4066 chips for extra function keys. I gave it color graphics, audio from a c-64 SID chip, had floppy drives, a modem, printer port. 256K of ram. It was a monster. I had wires going everywhere. But I was learning way more about the system compared to someone going to dell.com now & buying a computer. Even though I love the command line, I've always hated DOS/Windows. I don't even care for x86 cpu's really. I loved the Motorola CPU's. That's why I used Atari's/Amgia's/Sinclair QL & eventually Mac's/NeXT systems. When Apple decided to shift to x86, which I believe was a smart move, part of me still was really upset. Kinda like when Apple bought NeXT. I knew in my heart it was the starting of the end of all things NeXT. I love Mac OS X, but it's not NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. Just my personal take on the that part of history. Take care. |
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Thrax
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That is a really cool way to champion the GS. I loved the GS when it came out.
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itomato
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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Before I required internet access, I used to ride my bike to the Public Library just to look at this:
http://www.apple2.org/AppleIIgsPortables.html
That thing inspired numerous hacking projects, including a re-packaged C=64 in a red fur covered PC enclosure, with internally mounted 1541's..
Ahh, the memories..
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