Going either way with a dead iMac sounds good to me. If you can find a 17" Studio Display with a bad flyback and a quality 17" VGA CRT, you might keep it iMac-like. Consider doing a MAXiMac hack with your iMac's giblets and a Medium sized display, lots of room in there to play around with, especially so if you switch to an LCD. Put your slotloader, Zip and FDD access in the right or left white side panel.
I've considered the notion of a wide aspect LCD in the top of the display area of my Blueberry StudioDisplay hull with a custom Drive Bay Panel to fill the resulting opening underneath. Doing it in a custom. back painted clear plexi setback so the flat screen and drive bays "float" just behind the bezel opening would cover a multitude of size variations and allow the wide aspect flat screen to be dropped about a half an inch and reduce the drive bay area by the same amount from the bottom.
Dunno, such musings keep it interesting to have that Big@$$ B&W bubble kicking around the joint.
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I've considered the notion of a wide aspect LCD in the top of the display area of my Blueberry StudioDisplay hull with a custom Drive Bay Panel to fill the resulting opening underneath. Doing it in a custom. back painted clear plexi setback so the flat screen and drive bays "float" just behind the bezel opening would cover a multitude of size variations and allow the wide aspect flat screen to be dropped about a half an inch and reduce the drive bay area by the same amount from the bottom.
Dunno, such musings keep it interesting to have that Big@$$ B&W bubble kicking around the joint.
Welcome aboard, BTW! [
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