The Bad Apple Classic II, May 2004

Hot on the heels of of the G3 Bad Apple came this. Unlike that project I lost interest near the end and halted. Mostly because a car computer caught my imagination and I took a serious look at this and thought "why".

Case is a Mac Classic II. Butterfly Parade Bazaar item, didn't work. All diagnostics pointed to logic board failure.

None of the normal yellowed plastic. Notice asset tag 00214, PGUSD.

Plan was to use Frontex extensions to bring the ports to the stock locations. Serial, parallel, mouse, keyboard, etc.

Switches will be repurposed for power & reset.

The gutted case

Case

Test fitting. Pioneer slot load DVD drive, laptop hard drive.

Power supply test fit

Mainboard test fit. PC Chips ITX board.

Mainboard fits with normal RAM

Widen the floppy disk slot

Mounting Optical drive. To line the slot up I had to lower the drive. This was fatal flaw one

This side of the drive is secured with mesh.

The other side with the case.

The desired result of DVD drive install

Monitor is a black & white monochrome VGA unit from a cash register system.

Monitor fitting. Appears stock

The monitor's electronics & main board will mount to this mesh - the mainboard would not fit in the bottom as planned because the DVD drive had to be sunk below the chassis.  Flaw number two.

Power supply, a low wattage e-machine power supply. Remove the case.

The power supply will fit in the 'basement'. Two screws will secure it.

End of project. Gave up on cramming the parts around that mesh chassis. Mainboard went toward car computer, DVD Drive went in an external case. rest went in the trash