I stand corrected. I thought going for a clear case and abandoning the black-and-blue origins of the Cursed Mac was a mistake, but this is the next level of cursed. I love it. :D

Well, I guess I am in the minority, but I loved the black and blue. I miss the Jaz drive, but if you are set on going with the clear case, that blue face plate doesn't really work as well. Realistically, it's not a very valuable thing, and you can put the room inside the case to better purposes. Cool that the original owner emailed you, thanks for including it, it was a great read.

Ok wow, this is cool! Great job.

@GigantTech

2 жыл бұрын

i didnt expect you here

@ActionRetro

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hugh!

@christianhansen3292

2 жыл бұрын

need to test the music please!

I dunno why but I always love the blue CD drive contrasting with the black.

@zsombor_99

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, this slot is just as good wit the clear case as the blue drive was with the black case, right? 😉

@defconzero

2 жыл бұрын

It had kinda a ps2 vibe which is _really_ cursed

not going to lie. it does look excellent. it is a shame to erase some of the machines history. I think there is often a pull for people to 'restore' vintage machines, but real preservation is about keeping a machines history whilst making it useable in the modern day. maybe the clear case would be better suited to an equally cursed sibling.

I love the backstory and how the cursed Mac looks now. Adding anymore drives would sort of destroy its clear looks (then again, this thing is cursed for a reason).

Personally, I'd say leave the other drive out and use external devices instead. Don't suppose you could add USB ports to open up the external devices options? I know 68K Amigas have this ability with devices like the Subway USB controller.

@TheducksOrg

2 жыл бұрын

USB Mass Storage is supported by MacOS 8.6 and later. I think this is running 8.1?

So, while the case is completely transparent. There is the option of using products like plastidip that you can spray on the internal, keeping the clear plastic look from the outside but also providing a color of sorts. Since it's plastidip it'll easily peal off if you don't want to keep it. It's used a lot to give cars a new look without having to respray it proper. It might be worth giving the front of the case a spay down with black to see how it looks. I think it'd be very imac g3 like with the clear plastic top coat as a result.

@iiiiiifggffggffgfgfg

2 жыл бұрын

iMac 040

What an amazing story! I was doing much of the same back in those years, inspired by other modders and constraining myself with limited hardware. The internet is so cool.

the ONE thing now is to get greyscale on the internal monitor. an external monitor would be failure in my irrelevant eyes. utterly incredible beast! recently picked up an SE/30 because of this series

@mal2ksc

2 жыл бұрын

Why grayscale when there were color CRTs the right size and the output signal is right there?

@armspac

2 жыл бұрын

@@mal2ksc you mean swap out the crt? That would be awesome no doubt, but I like the idea of keeping it black and white. As long as he doesn't stick an LCD in there

@armspac

2 жыл бұрын

@@mal2ksc also checked online, colour CRTs are longer and take more power so even if you managed to change the analog board you would still need to cut a hole on the back of the case

Wow, this Macintosh become better and better! It's evolving! 👍 😏 I suggest to do a pass trough for the SD card adapter for easier file transfer (even if it requires the computer to be switched off to take the card out)! 😉

From the Cursed mac to Project Prism this machine is awsome and shall always be a main staple of the channel

Yes Sean that is A perfect way to mount that CD drive love the clear case I think is looks better with out the Jazz drive. SD card option would be pretty neat to do Nice Work Sir

Awesome! Good meeting you today at VCF East. I’m the StarMax guy who played on the MUD today.

A Zip or floppy drive would be a great addition to the new ghostly identity of the Cursed Mac. But I'd say that you need to find one with a translucent bezel, or find a way to make it work with the existing case (as you did with the optical drive).

Thanks for taking a selfie with me, the Mac looked sick!

Awesome back story. Makes the cursed Mac even more interesting. The guy sounds like he is about my age.

Next = Micron PDS card allowing for 256 grey scale? Ever tried it?

Seeing that empty clear SE case (the SE was my stalwart companion during high school in the early nineties), I'm very tempted to buy one just to build a modern linux machine out of it. Just imagine how much battery could fit inside that case, and how long that could run with something like a raspberry pi zero, lol!!

So cool to finally learn the true story behind the Cursed Mac - Brian is definitely one of us! Personally I went with keeping the black front panel but the end result has blossomed like a beautiful butterfly from a cursed caterpillar so I approve 😅

I would be really tempted to use the unpainted old case front and apply the same slot-loading mod to it, just so that it looks like you have a 5.25" floppy slot on a Mac SE. Either that or sanding/frosting the current transparent front so that you can still see the glow of the lights within.

I love it! Great job rehabilitating this crazy little Mac, Sean 💯🔥

Great to meet you at VCF East and see the face behind the camera! I was very impressed with your cursed mac, as well as your Quadra 950 fan mod. Can't wait to see what shenanigans you come up with next ;)

@ActionRetro

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, likewise!!

So glad the original owner found your channel. That made my day.

Honestly that is so cool that the original owner managed to come across this.

Looks amazing!!! Well done!!

Wow. This actually turned out way better than expected. Nicely done!

A clear modded Jaz Drive would be a match made in heaven for that mac

I can't help but smile at people who get this excited over old computers like me. Beautiful mod!

Yuss! I was waiting for this video after seeing your tweet a while back. Such a great story.

I love this channel - the retro technology evolving in its own way never ends!!!!!

Very nice transparent houses and excellent work done for the CD drive. The RGB LEDs do not convince me much of their usefulness but on a mad car and absolutely unique as this, there can be there. It would be hilarious if the control of the LEDs took place from the operating system. Other thing, the screen: it should be in color and maybe support the thousands of nuances.

@BlackEpyon

2 жыл бұрын

You'd have to replace the analog board for that, which isn't exactly easy to do.

Awesome project! Great video! Thanks for doing this. Amazing what we can do in 2021. If you could change out the 1 bit parts on the CRT and install the Micron greyscale mod, that thing would be even more awesome, and vintage at the same time (the Micron XCeed is legit vintage). I think Bolle makes reproductions of that, too.

Saw this computer in person today @VCF, So cool! Didnt realize while I was bs'ing with you how you built it etc that I was a subscriber to your channel for quite some time... What a bummer! Awesome build and nice chatting!

Loved seeing them at VCF, good work!

I've been rewatching this series and can't tell you the relief when the CD drive and whatever the hell that other thing was finally went.

When printing in clear filament, if you want optical clarity, you need to go for a really coarse layer height like 0.3 or 0.4mm. The more layers you have, the more refraction as the light moves from one layer to the next, so you end up with a lot of light scattering. Hence the frosty white look. It's basically like taking clear perspex and roughing it up with sandpaper.

I don't consider this cursed any longer - this is more like a blessed mac now. It's beautiful.

Cool. I saw this at VCF East and didn't realize it was you. Love the channel.

I was dubious about going full-transparent, but yeah, it was the right call. And that guide you built is perfect - if you hadn't pointed it out, I wouldn't have guessed it was there. Beautiful job.

ngl... I would have kept the blue case. The CD drive came out amazing! I like the idea of swapping the Jazz drive for a Zip drive and making the SCSI2SD slot accessible. Have you considered painting the steel internal chassis black? I just feel like the contrast would make seeing through the case more visually appealing.

I think you should put a zip drive in there. It's still iomega so it doesn't really detract from the missing jaz drive. Plus it's useful for file transfers between your machines.

The cursed Mac is how I found this channel, what a cool machine. I definitely vote for leaving as is or putting something in other than a Jaz drive that would get used

I've been really liking this series! FWIW, I thought the solid front would have been better, as the case is so busy in front when you can see through it, but I know that the audience has spoken! :) What's missing is *color*. Have you thought about painting the inner metal frame black and blue, to bring some of the cursed Mac aesthetic back? It also definitely needs an era-appropriate Apple logo (though maybe a smaller one than last time). I'd also replace the paper insulation sheet on the analog board with a thin, clear piece of acrylic so people can see the back of the board. Of the options you listed, I would definitely set the SCSI 2 SD up to pass the sd card through the upper floppy drive slot. You'll get a lot more mileage out of being able to access that than you would a Jaz or Zip disk anyway.

hahaha this was a great episode, history on the cursed mac, update on the original owner! And, what a sweet upgrade with the clear case!

that looks DOPE asf man, amazing job

Very, Very, Cool Mod, the Clear Case was Fantastic and lit up it was Beyond Cool!

This is best story love watching this Mac evolve 👍

This video is so fucking cool. I loved every second of it. And that Mac, just wow !!! Great job dude !!!

A CD-ROM is Needed! Amazing work!

Excellent video. I LOVE that MAC!

I saw this unit at VCF East on Saturday. Very cool.

Was awesome to see this in person.

still love this thing, You should paint the metal chassis some bright color and swap in a green CRT.

Paint the internal metal parts in the same blue as the cd drive used to be. Will carry on the theme of the old case to the new!

Oh please take some high resolution photos of this while it's brand new and shiny, this deserves to be preserved as art forever!

I vote Zip Drive, more nostalgic love for it and it would be more practical overall

I would stick a floppy emu on the front of this mac where the jazz drive was, but choose one with an lcd screen, so you have a small screen underneath the big one, making it even more obscure! What a beautiful mac you have made there! Awesome job!

Nice work. This thing looks great. A 68k Mac on the internet in the early '00s wasn't a big deal or even uncommon; I had one. Most days after school I'd use my Performa 475's 14.4k modem to dial into whatever the cheapest ISP was at the time (remember NetZero and the store-branded ISPs (Walmart, etc)?) and hop onto AIM and a few of the less flash-heavy websites that I frequented. I upgraded to a blueberry iBook around 2002 but the Performa still got AIM duties on the regular. Also I figure the best choice for an AIO 68k with CD built-in would likely be the LC/Performa 575, the last and fastest of the Trinitron AIOs; the 58x series is slightly faster (thanks to its Quadra 63x-based logic board with Valkyrie video chip) and more readily upgradeable to PPC via simple logic board swap (the 575 needs either a rare and frankly lackluster upgrade card or a lot of case hacking/chassis swapping for a new logic board), but it has a basic shadow-mask CRT in a slightly bulgy case and its plastics are much more brittle than its predecessors (these and the early 52/53xx models are the worst example of Spindler plastics. Seriously don't try to ship one or you'll end up with a box of beige shards with some bits of metal and a CRT on top).

Back in 1990 when I had a 4MB Mac Plus I remember seeing an advertisement for an external colour adaptor for that machine. It plugged into the SCSI port (!) and then somehow into a monitor. Unfortunately I can't track it down on Google. Have you or anyone else in this channel come across it?

Oh wow, that is *wicked* cool; I love it! I think it's perfect as-is with just the CD drive (which is crazy enough on its own) so I don't think it needs an internal floppy/zip/etc. drive of any sort.

that thing you did with the cd drive looks pretty cool, the cd's just appear outta nowhere, awesome

GReat video! The transparent case works on so many levels. I'd say leave the Jaz drive out. It looks better without that added.

Meeting a "nice guy from Philadelphia" that you met on Craigslist sounds like a suicide mission 😂☠😂

This is turning into the ship of Theseus. Might as well make the original cursed Mac along with this new clear version.

Not really a mac fan, but I have to say, that old school mac with the clear case looks amazing. Thank you for sharing!

Friggen... awesome! Heckin Heck I love it! Look for a superdrive for sure. That jazz is pure ballz.

looking good like the change look good

This looks very cool!

18:12 That's a fucking album cover right there.

@randomd2146

2 жыл бұрын

The album coud be called “sounds from the 80’s” or something

Very well done Sean

Sean, definitely Zip drive is the way to go for this machine. If you want to get the SCSI2SD card ported out, there's extension cables for those, put it wherever seems to make sense. If you want to wire in a video board … make sure it can be taken apart for maintenance and repair. This mac is cursed after all.

And in regards to the front, at most only put the SCSI2sd access panel reducing the need to reopen since you have external addons

That’s fantastic! I would definitely say go with that imation superdisk. 😁

Need to find that blue and black keyboard from those old photos.

All you need is a transparent mouse and keyboard and it will look awesome! ❤️

@Noaddedsalt01

2 жыл бұрын

get the apple USB keyobards to connect it, put a usb port on it

That thing is soo beautiful! What are the main uses and how does it fit into your workflow?

I had a 24-bit color PDS card mounted in my 1992/93 LC-III in the late 1990s. It ran a secondary 17" monitor at 1024x768 in all 24-bit true color glory. I wish I still had it and knew what the brand was. I think that card may have worked in the SE-30's PDS slot. I still have the LC-III (without the card, as I eventually moved it to a PowerMac LC 5215 later) and my original SE. Unfortunately they are just gathering dust in boxes these days.

This looks amazing. I can understand not installing the Jaz drive if you don't really use it. From your use case, a Zip drive does make more sense, but I think restoring floppy functionality might be best. A SuperDisk drive (LS-120) definitely sounds interesting, but it has issues reading earlier Mac disks. But that might not be a concern for you. Just be careful to make any more mods as neat as the CD. And since external devices are always an option, well, you have a lot of choices ahead of you.

Time to track down the CRT from a Colour Classic, mod the video board to output 640x480, then jam it in there.

Wow the cursed MAC looks phenomenal.

Baby’s back and it’s future looks clear!

It looks so cool!

Seeing it take in the CD was so satisfying

I'm thinking you should install some sort of clear plastic box on the side of the case that obstructs the internals that can hold those USB drives. Maybe add a USB splitter bank or something under them, too. After all, there's nothing more cursed than having ten different peripherals plugged into your computer 24/7.

beautiful leave just the cdrom in it - it turned out so nice and clean that way

Hilarious, I can recall when people were taking classic Mac cases and putting pounds of epoxy inside to turn them into tiny fishbowls with equally tiny optics. That transparent case would make an awesome evolution of the concept.

First rule of being a geek: If there's a transparent option, you pick the transparent option.

It looks beautiful as is!

I do kinda miss the black front. It’s where the Cursed Mac started. But the clear case does look pretty awesome. As for the Jazz drive, a Zip drive would be a very good substitute.

The new CD-ROM drive seems so much better than my old Pioneer slot loader. That thing you had to jam the disc a lot more than half way in before it actually sucked it in. But the case looks amazing! I think the problems with the cut-out for the CD-ROM drive aren't a big deal. It would probably look weird if you cut out the slot in the right place from the start and left the floppy slot in place, so having a black cover under the slot seems like a better solution. As for the Jaz drive, it definitely would be more cursed to have that, but having a big cut-out would look pretty ugly, and it would kind-of ruin the look. I like the idea of a Zip drive with the front bezel removed and just a slot cut out for the disk. Or a LS-120 SuperDisk, although a SCSI one might be a bit hard to find. Personally it makes more sense to have some kind of removable media accessible from the front, rather than the SCSI2SD, since that's your boot drive and you're never going to remove that in normal operation. Making it accessible from the front at a public event is just asking for someone to pull the card out while it's running. Anyway, hopefully you can get the speaker working again. But no matter what you decide to do with the machine, I can't wait to see it!

My vote is for a ZIP drive. I didn’t think that LS-120 Superfloppy drives were available in SCSI.

See if you can extract a piece of the clear case and try to die it atomic purple, if it works, do it with the whole case.

I agree that it makes more sense for the zip driver to be in there than anything else. I'm partial to zip disks though.... Fond memories

i would go blue back case, and a black painted clear front, ideally a light coat so it retains some transparency. Maybe get the CD guide in blue, to honor the original as well.

The next project could be making a beige case for the first iMacs. I Will add that's a joke. Thanks Action Retro.

@valshaped

2 жыл бұрын

It's a joke, but it doesn't have to be

I love all those awesome Mods

Holy shit, that looks awesome!

Should keep some of the essence of the black cursed front fascia by spraying the metal parts of the chassis black :D 17:26 Goddamn that is utterly beautiful

IMO: you should only put peripherals in there that are able to eject through software. So a Zip drive, or an LS120 drive would fit the bill. You’ll need to add another slot, but it would definitely be worth it! Oh, and it looks awesome indeed! Almost forgot to ask: did reassembling it solve the latest curse on hanging at boot?