Taco

The logic board will fit fine vertically behind an LCD display, but blocking the floppy slot, or course.

eg: http://www.stuartbell.dsl.pipex.com/NewTaco/Taco3c.jpg

I hope that this summer will see the end of the project!

Stuart

I have finally got my things from the storage (so I got access to my scanner). I'll scan the photos I have made last November and hopefully will get them on a web soon.

My Taco was fully assembled and working since November (although there were some beige logic board issues so I had to buy a new one).

Basically I have the same Layout of the LB as on Stuart's photo, plus I have rewired CC's sound and brightness buttons (at the front panel of the CC) to the buttons of the OSD control of my LCD (so the LCD settings can be easily changed). I have also added internal TV tuner (using hack from Japanese site - works only in OS 9 and seems to be buggy) plus I have single SCSI HDD (with a bay for second HDD) and slot-loading DVD-ROM to the right side of the CC.

Finally I uploaded my Taco photos I did back in November 2003. I apologise for the poor quality of some of the photos - they were taken by normal (non-digital) camera.

Here is http://www.applefritter.com/node/view/3001 Taco in action fully assembled running MacOS X 10.2.6. Then there is also a bad picture http://www.applefritter.com/node/view/3002 of Taco running MacOS 9.2.

The internals:

• This http://www.applefritter.com/node/view/3003 picture shows internals sitting in the back of the case: single HDD (with a space for one more), SCSI slot-loading DVD-ROM to the side of the Taco, Micro ATX PSU underneath and CC's speaker.

• Then a http://www.applefritter.com/node/view/3004 closer look at HDD chassis.

• This again is the view http://www.applefritter.com/node/view/3005 of the back of CC where also cuts for the LB connectors in the left side of the CC case are visible.

• This is a picture http://www.applefritter.com/node/view/3006 of the fully assembled Taco's front panel with logic board (LCD and control panel underneath) on ali sheet, AV card and TV Tuner. The connector on the side of LB is basically for the attachement to the on-board graphics card. It has standard Mac connector and on the other end connects via VGA connector to the LCD controller.

• The same picture http://www.applefritter.com/node/view/3007 as above but without AV card and TV Tuner for the clarity of the view.

• This is a picture http://www.applefritter.com/node/view/3008 of the other side of the front panel (attached to ali sheet) with LCD, LCD controller, LCD control board wired to CC's push-button board and VGA/Mac converter unit.

That is basically it (at that time I have run out of film in a camera - otherwise I would have taken more of those photos).

Any questions - please don't hesitate to ask.

Wow Alexy -- nice work!

One request -- could you take a pic of the fully assembled Taco that shows the lefthand side, with the cutout for the logic board ports?

Matt

I will certainly do - but it won't be fast (it won't be tomorrow) as I don't have a digital camera (so I'll have to take pictures with usual one, develop them and scan after that).

Basically I have cut the square holes for ADB port (keyboard), printer port, Ethernet, video and big hole for holding AV personality card. The last one was rather special because it had to be precisely corresponding to the card size - otherwise the card would sit there loosely (because it does not have any chassis to attach it to).

Unfortunately (as I found out later) the AV card is not quite supported by Apple anymore. It does not work in MacOS X and MacOS 9.2 support for it is quite buggy. So it was kind of waste of time ;-[