I personally know that an old Compaq Contura 4\25 i286 laptop screen is the same size as a Mac Classic screen, and if done properly, you can have the whole Contura inside with the floppy drive lining up properly too. As for a modern PC, you will most likely want to find a small portable DVD player that has the same screen size, and it MUST have video INPUT (and your PC must have video output). with this method, you can then widen the floppy slot a few inches, and get a slot loading DVD player for your PC inside. also with this method, you can add a "switching box" that allows you to select inputs, and you might be able to connect a seperate PC to it also. I have heard rumors that an Asus EEE pc screen will fit is as well, and you can pick those up for around $180 for the older Linux varity (20gb SSD). or you can go with a Windows XP one for around $270 on newegg.
When completely gutted, a Mac Classic case is roomy enough to fit any number of systems, and if you do go with a flat panel screen, you could easily build a nice media server using an ITX board (Intel Atom preferred) and you could probably fit about 4 laptop SATA II drives in it and run it off a smaller power supply. If you don't want to gut it completely, I am sure someone has a pinout guide for operating the screen alone, and with that knowledge you should be able to make a small system inside where the old system board was, but it will be in black and white. Hope that helps, -Chirstian (AKA Pizzaboy192) On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi There, > > We have a mac classic that has been sitting in a box for the past (i dont > know how many) years. It works, you can boot it up etc.. I just dont know > what todo with it.. would LOVE to turn it into something usefull, like a > music server or PC tv or whatever.... we have all the compoents to put > either a mac (old powerbook) or a pc into it but the screen.. any thoughts > here? > > Simon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
