Futuristic computing rig

What do you get when you mix a 5150, commodore 64, iPad? The newest latest futuristic computing rig:



The last shot was our idea of an additional keyboard for the iPad (that was when it first came out mind you). And of course, the iMac "hockey puck" mouse... gross!

For some reason putting a bunch of vintage computers coagulated in one area just becomes so fun.

Heh, the hockey-puck mouse attached to the iPad nicely sums up everything I hate about Apple. Now if you could just put a Power Mac G4 board in an SE/30 case, you'd have all that is best...

commodorejohn said:

Heh, the hockey-puck mouse attached to the iPad nicely sums up everything I hate about Apple. Now if you could just put a Power Mac G4 board in an SE/30 case, you'd have all that is best...

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You can get your desired hockey puck mouse in any colour you like! Commodore John wants a bondi blue one


I do have a power mac G4. It has 1 GB of RAM (I could bump it up to 2GB if I get another 512 SDRAM stick). I pulled out the two 512 sticks and stuffed them in an IBM, and gave the G4 four 256s. Said IBM happens to be a 300GL... I don't like it very much :s
Ugh... see... it has nice hardware, but IBM deliberately "stunted" it... in which case I hate it. Plus, the CPU is a slot one, I hate slot CPUs; they're so disgusting. It's a pentium 3 with a massive aluminum heatsink COOLED BY THE PSU FAN! I shove it under my desk as a server thing if the need ever arrives. I don't like to think about the internals. It runs quietly and nicely though. Even stressed it out with some 3D gaming, ran fine (had my old AGP gaming card lol). Whatever. Maybe I should sell it.

Wow, it seems you need some of the 1 GHz PowerLeap IP3/T adapters, I got my hands on 2 of them and I'm not planning on letting go of them since they were so darn hard to find.

Just add one of those Twentieth Anniversary Macintoshes as the monitor.


That'll complete the futuristic look.

Hmm...I own one of those

Compgeke said:

Hmm...I own one of those

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Okay now get your 5150, C64, iPad, and hockey puck mouse and add them all together!

Well, I've got the god-awful Boni blue hockey puck mouse, I know someone with a complete Commodore 64 setup, I know 2 people with iPads, I'm just stuck finding the 5150.

Oh, and a hot-linking banned image...gotta fix that.

Here's a link since the original image is far too large to post:
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6055/tamep.jpg

I think that clear keyboard+mouse combo on the TAM could be added to the original futuristic computer. Better yet, a clear C64!

Well, the reason for the clear keyboard and the worst trackpad ever made is my friend was throwing it out and I took it, and it just happened to be a prototype.