As I said to my friend Andrew, we are going to end up on “The (Electronics) Antique (read: mostly junk) Road Show”. And we are proud of it. My recent find is a Mac G4, almost complete. Time for a new project. I’m not going to try and restore the Mac. No, most of the parts are going back to the same recycling bin, but case is … I’ve never seen that good PC case. Here are the pictures:

Mac in the basement

Open case

Mac and its distant relatives

On the last picture is the Mac with its distant relatives: Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum (anyone remembers it? 48kB RAM!!!) and Acer’s Aspire One running UNR 9.04. Anyway, as you can see from the second picture, there is PS, mobo, dvd drive, video card. There was no hard disk in it, and whoever took it out, he didn’t leave the HD mounting bracket. No worries, there is two more still left in the case.

That’s going to be my fall/winter project: PC in the Mac’s case, running Ubuntu 64bit, whatever version is going to be the most recent, probably 9.10. I wont finish it before the release date, that’s for sure.