Introducing FrankenMac
Jan. 25th, 2009 02:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maxcelcatI am such a freakin' nerd, and I can prove it. Consider the picture below:
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That, folks, is a dual processor G4 Macintosh, hacked together from parts from Ebay and a Donor Mac, plus a heat sink from a PII processor! Not to mention a lump of copper between it and the processors... Might just go check that it's not getting too warm :-)
Tomorrow I might try and find a case for it.
Man, this took a while, I started acquiring parts for this back in... Shit, it must have been 2004. It only came together recently when my cousin gave me a Mac which was identical to the model I was trying to assemble!
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That, folks, is a dual processor G4 Macintosh, hacked together from parts from Ebay and a Donor Mac, plus a heat sink from a PII processor! Not to mention a lump of copper between it and the processors... Might just go check that it's not getting too warm :-)
Tomorrow I might try and find a case for it.
Man, this took a while, I started acquiring parts for this back in... Shit, it must have been 2004. It only came together recently when my cousin gave me a Mac which was identical to the model I was trying to assemble!
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Re: Really?
Date: 2009-01-29 03:32 pm (UTC)Re: Really?
Date: 2009-01-30 02:40 pm (UTC)I picked up a lot of these bits on Ebay, but I also had to scavenge some from another mac, not to mention fashioning a heatsink from a piece of copper and a heatsink from a PII... So, plenty of cred, but not much practicality!