--- On Thu, 5/28/09, Simon <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Simon <[email protected]> > Subject: Screen choices for Mac Classic > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 9:36 PM > 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? One conversion that's been done is a 9" color or greyscale VGA POS (Point Of Sale) terminal monitor. Such monitors (without cases) used to be common and dirt cheap as surplus. They require little, if any trimming of the original CRT bezel to fit and when turned off look pretty much exactly like the original. More up to date is a small LCD, but to make it look good you have to trim the case so the bezel sits flat against the screen and to keep any of the image from being hidden behind the bezel you need to trim it rather than resizing the image like you can on a CRT. The big bonus with an LCD is there's a huge amount of extra room inside the case. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
