What the crap is this

[Zar]

this has got be the weirdest thing ever, has any body here heard of the atari Mac, LOL

well anyway check this stuff out, those dudes gotta be trippen
http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=1928

[shooraijin]

The thing I don't like about these retromod projects is that some of them have destroyed perfectly good working hardware, and they don't say if the VCS they gutted to put the Mac in was working or not.

There was a project to cram a PC into a SX-64 (a portable Commodore 64) case, although after the developers got a lot of hate mail, they went to great lengths to point out that the SX-64 was already beyond repair when they gutted it.

It still seems like smashing stained glass windows to me, though.

[Arnobius]

I doubt they would have done it if they thought they could have made money eBaying it.

Projects like this make me want to ask: Why?

[shooraijin]

Precisely my reaction as well.

[blkmage]

Usually, the motivation for this kind of stuff boils down to "because we can."

[Arnobius]

Next, they'll build an airplane out of bricks then...

[Fsiphskilm]

They p

[shooraijin]

The difference to me is that antique computers, particularly notable ones like the 2600, the SX-64, etc., should be preserved instead of shredded. You can relandscape a lawn, but you can't get the original components for a VCS anymore (you can make a VHDL emulation or an ASIC if you have the buck$, but that's not the same thing).

(I generally make an exception for PCs not (just) because I dislike them, but because most PCs use easily available or interchangeable parts and you can easily build a new one that will run your old software. Heck, I can still buy new ISA cards at Fry's -- for the 486 I use for playing DOS games, I got a new Sound Blaster 16 ISA right off the store shelf. I also put many PCI Macs in this category for the same reason, although NuBus and the original Compact Macs are weird enough that they should probably be saved instead of eviscerated.)

So, for my money, I liken it again to smashing stained glass windows. They're historical artifacts which should be admired, not like taking the Mona Lisa canvas and throwing it out so you can use the frame.