I got this free B&W from my school. Here's how the story goes...

So first period I saw my teacher loading some old beige Macs onto a cart. She said they were going to be recycled. During passing period I rushed over to the tech guy at the school. He said they were out by the dumpster, and were going to be picked up between 11 and 11:30. It was 10:15 and I had 5 minutes. I ran out to the dumpster area and low and behold, there were atleast 10 working Macs. I saw a friend, and told him about it. He was like "hell yeah let's go get 'em". So we went over there and grabbed the two B&Ws, the best machines there. We ran over to one of his teacher's rooms and dumped the machines there to pick up after school. When I got home with my B&W, I plugged it in. It had no optical drives and was slightly wet, covered in dust. I spent most of that afternoon cleaning it out, and the next day after school I decided to paint it. I painted all the blue white, making it look much sleeker but still leaving the original clear frosted color on the sides and handles.

Now all I have left to do is tape out the sides and paint the Apple logos white. I could use an optical drive bracket, seeing as right now I have none and the CD-RW drive is sitting on an internal floppy drive and some other junk.

Here are some photos:

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5378/img00135za.jpg
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8008/img00114cd.jpg

Post edited by: mxlews, at: 2005/12/17 19:29

Very nice! I'm glad you have already painted that B&W in such a short period of time. Do you have any other mods planned for it other than the paint job?

Yeah, I've upgraded some internal stuff too.

320MB RAM (128 Stock)
10GB HD (6GB Stock)
CD-RW Drive

I plan to get a new top and side in the future. The top has a 'Property of Stanford' stamp burnt into it, and the one side is beaten up and cracked. Other than that I don't know. Your welcome to give ideas.

Well done. I'm glad you didn't let them go to waste

Stanford huh, nice. I just happen to have the parts you need! I have a top, a side and a drive bay. The case parts are already painted white from a mod I did. If you want em, PM me.

-maestro

PM sent. :woohoo:

Oh and, I don't go to Stanford. This machine was donated to my school (Jordan Middle School) from Stanford. :P

Post edited by: mxlews, at: 2005/12/18 00:29

Kinda reminds me when I found a stock pile of some old IBM PC330s. There was 10 of them and 8 out of the 10 worked. They all had painted in black spraypaint on the top of the cases and sides Duval County Schools. also they used a key lock on the case so I couldn't open the case. I ended up drilling the locks out and used slicon putty to cover up the old holes from the locks and ened up painting all of the cases black and red. I ened up building a cluster server out of it then I sold them after a year for 100 bucks each to some buddies that wanted dedcated servers for HTTPD and games.

It's great getting computers from schools and offices. Funny thing is the stuff they leave on the hard drives lol.

Also it's fun trying to cram as many as you can into a small toyota lol.

I'm glade to hear you got a nice system like that from a school that was just going to toss them away for scrap.

Haha, yeah. They make NO effort to wipe the hd.

Added a card reader where the Zip drive goes. Works great!

Post edited by: mxlews, at: 2005/12/18 07:21

There's this old all-in-one machine from the days of the killer EM radiation sitting outside the tech room at my school, gathering dust. I've toyed with the idea of taking it, for which I have permission, but I really and truly don't need or want it, nor do I need to suffer from its effects, and it's only slightly "cool." Funny... It's the only semi-working machine out there: the rest are crapped-out Wintel boxes. Yet another testament to Apple's strengths and weaknesses.

what paint did you use for that mod?

great job.  the front shot is very striking.

Psh, I trashed those painted parts long ago.  I did a terrible job on it.  The paint was Krylon Fusion plastic spray paint.

I can't see much detail in those pics anyway..  my point was that in the pic the mix of white and the frosted plastic is very aesthetic.  to my eyes at least.