kaede.sakura.ne.jp— The Japanese guy had so many hits to his site that he decided to translate his page into "My Poor English" (his words). Nice Mod and great pics for those who missed it the first time around...
Feb 3, 2006View in Crawl 4
A little rough around the edges, but great mod. Like how the CD comes out the front vent. The Minis are so much more versatile than the Cube. You can fit these into almost anything. Wasn't there a guy who put one in the dashboard of his car?I saw that Microcenter has a Mac Mini System for under $500.00... * Mac mini - 1.25GHz * 14" LCD display * Epson CX4200 All-in-One Printer * Macally Keyboard * Macally MouseDamn, if they only had this in January...but here's an example of how a regular consumer can get a Mac for a good price.
Cute project, but I would have liked more detail on how he got the video to work. Getting the amount of content and detail shown on the display would require much different/higher scan frequencies than the original display used, and of course the RGB signals would have to be mixed and fed as greyscale. The orignal display was 1-bit (on/off) so I'm not sure if even the driver board on the crt pins could be reused. Considering that the display had to be essentially all new anyway, one might as well have gone with color.Someone made a comment about the original display putting out more radiation and that would limit the life of the electronics. That's nonsense. Black and white displays use much lower anode voltages than color, and small screens need less than large ones. What little radiation there is a blocked by use of leaded glass. (The lead in the glass is the reason that old cathode ray tubes require special recycling). Had the original put out as much as the poster here suggested, it would have been just as harmful to the original electronics, and the user too. The mid-60's scare about radiation from color televisions came after General Electric shipped a cut-corner design which had no metal shielding around the high-voltage shunt regulator tube. (An additional load on the high voltage supply that would draw more current when the the c.r.t. drew less on low-brightness scenes, to keep the voltage constant. constant voltage was needed to keep the size of the picture constant, as well as to help stabilize focus and brightness). Later televisions added more sheilding to or around the glass of the shunt regulators, and generally had lower part of the tube surrounded by metal shielding as well.I didn't see the firewire port extended to the back. It'd be nice to have an internal large hard drive with a firewire or USB 2 interface added for more storage. Even a 3.5" drive would fit pretty easily.
If only there was a small color flat panel screen that could be put in there instead of the Mac SE screen.I loved my Mac SE, especially the form factor.
Closed AccountFeb 3, 2006
I dugg b/c of the idea, by the mod was poorly done. Very hokey.
chewie67Feb 3, 2006
Why?
artmanFeb 3, 2006
A little rough around the edges, but great mod. Like how the CD comes out the front vent. The Minis are so much more versatile than the Cube. You can fit these into almost anything. Wasn't there a guy who put one in the dashboard of his car?I saw that Microcenter has a Mac Mini System for under $500.00... * Mac mini - 1.25GHz * 14" LCD display * Epson CX4200 All-in-One Printer * Macally Keyboard * Macally MouseDamn, if they only had this in January...but here's an example of how a regular consumer can get a Mac for a good price.
thyratronFeb 3, 2006
Cute project, but I would have liked more detail on how he got the video to work. Getting the amount of content and detail shown on the display would require much different/higher scan frequencies than the original display used, and of course the RGB signals would have to be mixed and fed as greyscale. The orignal display was 1-bit (on/off) so I'm not sure if even the driver board on the crt pins could be reused. Considering that the display had to be essentially all new anyway, one might as well have gone with color.Someone made a comment about the original display putting out more radiation and that would limit the life of the electronics. That's nonsense. Black and white displays use much lower anode voltages than color, and small screens need less than large ones. What little radiation there is a blocked by use of leaded glass. (The lead in the glass is the reason that old cathode ray tubes require special recycling). Had the original put out as much as the poster here suggested, it would have been just as harmful to the original electronics, and the user too. The mid-60's scare about radiation from color televisions came after General Electric shipped a cut-corner design which had no metal shielding around the high-voltage shunt regulator tube. (An additional load on the high voltage supply that would draw more current when the the c.r.t. drew less on low-brightness scenes, to keep the voltage constant. constant voltage was needed to keep the size of the picture constant, as well as to help stabilize focus and brightness). Later televisions added more sheilding to or around the glass of the shunt regulators, and generally had lower part of the tube surrounded by metal shielding as well.I didn't see the firewire port extended to the back. It'd be nice to have an internal large hard drive with a firewire or USB 2 interface added for more storage. Even a 3.5" drive would fit pretty easily.
officemonkeyFeb 3, 2006
If only there was a small color flat panel screen that could be put in there instead of the Mac SE screen.I loved my Mac SE, especially the form factor.
16x9Feb 3, 2006
That is the coolest thing I've seen all day. I've got an old SE30 in the garage and I'm going to do this.