Greetings everyone!
I hate that my first post is a wanted post, but c'est la vie!
Here's my story...
I'm a Mac convert, going on over a decade. I've had up to 30 vintage (ie 1984-1988 model) macs, and some of the rare ones: macTV, Color Classic II, etc.
Presently, I've been saving "obsolete" G3s from various places. I've had an iMac that died, the CRT failed. Thanks to the ingenious design, the whole system will refuse to power on if the LG CRT is attached, but a Mac to VGA adapter will get it working again with any old VGA monitor.
What the hell does ANY of that have to do what a Packard Bell, you ask? Well...
When I was first exposed to computers, the place my mother worked at kept buying Packard Bells from Sams Club because they were cheap and expendable. I have a story about one of the 15" PB monitors catching fire from that place, actually.
Anyhow, they invested a lot into the early Pentium models -- many were the P60 desktops, that had the gray edges on the bottom, but then we got in this nifty Art-deco-but-not-really tower, a Platinum something or another. I'm really looking for one of these machines, and it need not function. Why? I just want the case. I want to mount the iMac (a work of art in an of itself -- for the curious, the case is being transformed into a fish tank) into the tower case, and expand it a bit (two HDDs, a CD-RW, etc) and use an old 15" PB monitor I've got sitting around with it. I realize this will be a dremel-intensive task, but the PB tower will likely be more help than hinder in its internal design for this, especially given that the iMac PSU is a vertical mount, and the logic board is a horizontal mount (and the PB towers had the main MB on the bottom of the power and PSU up top). Ebaying has yielded me nothing... alas. So I turn to the vintage forums.
Do you have one? Know a relative/neighbor/stranger down the street who hates theirs or upgraded? Please please please get them in touch with me!
Thank you for listening to my rant... and keep these good old machines alive. We still use an Atari 2600 at the house from time to time
-kc
I hate that my first post is a wanted post, but c'est la vie!
Here's my story...
I'm a Mac convert, going on over a decade. I've had up to 30 vintage (ie 1984-1988 model) macs, and some of the rare ones: macTV, Color Classic II, etc.
Presently, I've been saving "obsolete" G3s from various places. I've had an iMac that died, the CRT failed. Thanks to the ingenious design, the whole system will refuse to power on if the LG CRT is attached, but a Mac to VGA adapter will get it working again with any old VGA monitor.
What the hell does ANY of that have to do what a Packard Bell, you ask? Well...
When I was first exposed to computers, the place my mother worked at kept buying Packard Bells from Sams Club because they were cheap and expendable. I have a story about one of the 15" PB monitors catching fire from that place, actually.
Anyhow, they invested a lot into the early Pentium models -- many were the P60 desktops, that had the gray edges on the bottom, but then we got in this nifty Art-deco-but-not-really tower, a Platinum something or another. I'm really looking for one of these machines, and it need not function. Why? I just want the case. I want to mount the iMac (a work of art in an of itself -- for the curious, the case is being transformed into a fish tank) into the tower case, and expand it a bit (two HDDs, a CD-RW, etc) and use an old 15" PB monitor I've got sitting around with it. I realize this will be a dremel-intensive task, but the PB tower will likely be more help than hinder in its internal design for this, especially given that the iMac PSU is a vertical mount, and the logic board is a horizontal mount (and the PB towers had the main MB on the bottom of the power and PSU up top). Ebaying has yielded me nothing... alas. So I turn to the vintage forums.
Do you have one? Know a relative/neighbor/stranger down the street who hates theirs or upgraded? Please please please get them in touch with me!
Thank you for listening to my rant... and keep these good old machines alive. We still use an Atari 2600 at the house from time to time
-kc