Hello Everyone, I've only been at these forums for a little while, but i am inspired by some of the other mods ive seen... But anyway, on with the mod... ****QUICK NOTE**** I have changed all of the work seen in this post, for new and relevent work see post #32**** The case is a 1987 Compaq Portable III Orginal Specs: 12 Mhz Proccesor 64 KB Ram 20 MB Hdd 5.25" Floppy Disk Drive 8" Plasma Display The New Spec will be: P4 2.4B Shuttle FS-51 Motherboard 80GB WDSE HDD (Case will have expansion room for another HDD) 512MB Geil PC3200 Ram (512mb x 1) Video Card, There are some complications that will need to be resolved before a card will be chosen. 480w Coolmax Fanless Modular PSU The entire case will be painted black, with brushed alum. mesh grills, and accents of chrome. The Following will be a picture log of the progress made so far, a few parts are still needing to be purchased before further progress can be made. ***Pics removed due to BW issues, See post 32 for new pics*** More to come after parts arrive... Feel Free to leave comments or ideas.. -Brad
Great potential and nice work so far. Your image server is very slow - I'm on 1mbit broadband and it's taking aaaaages for the pics to show.
I'll Change servers, Thank you for the note... EDIT: I Changed Servers, Let me know if this one lags as well...
I purchased a 10" Toshiba TFT Laptop screen, however i still need to purchase the controller card from www.earthlcd.com
wow! great case.. extremly for lans! shuttle who? think i can pick one up thise days?? even on ebay or so (i searched and didnt find \= ) btw, why cant you use the original screen? is it burned? (sorry didnt really read all the words in the first post :X )
ive seen one on there before, for about $40 USD the orginal screen was only orange and black... It looked like an Apple II screen except the difference in colors... Therefore using Windows XP Pro with it wouldn't be practical, or even fesable...
really sweet project you got, i have a similar case i found on the side of the road that im gonna mod too, subscribed.
I've Never seen a retro case like that before, for a second I thought the back part was going to be a printer as well There's lots of potiential here
on ebay? oO what did u typed in search? oh.. that makes sense then, back then screens sucked ne how, im going to follow this one
For the mesh I gathered all the anicent speakers I could muster and used the grills off them, which worked out since I'm not going to be needing the speakers anyway All i typed in was "Compaq Portable III" and I got two results... Try to be more creative next time Link
