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LCD lights in the iMac keyboard. — #8

Speaking of LCDs, does anyone know if you can buy electroluminecent material (IndiGlo)? If you could buy big sheets of that stuff and stick it between the plastic and metal walls o…
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LCD lights in the iMac keyboard. — #9

Never heard of that stuff! Let's say that I wanted to put one LED light on my mouse. How much Volatge should the LED be designed to run at? Tyler
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LCD lights in the iMac keyboard. — #10

I did it, I really did! Haha! I put a blue light in my Tangerine mouse, it looks so stylish! I have never touched a soldering iron before and look what I did! HahA! Tyler
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LCD lights in the iMac keyboard. — #12

Indiglo (aka EL backlighting) needs high voltage, so to power it u need a small high voltage transformer. This would A) create a high pitch buzzing noise B) ~possibly~ create rad…
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LCD lights in the iMac keyboard. — #13

Years ago, when I dabbled in electronics, these components were called "glow strips" the consisted of an inverter, and the electroluminescent material (strip). It was battery ope…
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DVD-ROM in Rev. A iMac — #1

Hi, I read a post on PowerBook DVD Source that someone replaced the iMac CD-ROM with a laptop DVD-ROM and it works. I found out that the CD-ROM inside the iMac Rev. A is in ATAP…
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DVD-ROM in Rev. A iMac — #2

Apple DVD Player 2.x requiers ATI Rage 128 to work. Even if you replace CD-ROM with a DVD-ROM, I don't think you can watch DVD Maybe with QT5 that support Mpeg2 decoding this will…
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DVD-ROM in Rev. A iMac — #3

maybe if u run linux ppc, replace cd-rom with dvd-rom, and download DeCss (2600.com has a list of links to download the source) and compile it for mac then maybe u'll be able to
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Overclocking new and old... — #1

I know quite a bit about overclocking but have never had the guts to try it on a mac I own. But recently I got a new G4/450 rendering my ancient PowerTower Pro 225 old and striking…
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iMac case hack idea — #1

Here's an idea for a hack I just thought of. Maybe someone's already done this. It seems to me that you could stick an LED under the Apple logo on the top of the iMac case. It woul…
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iMac case hack idea — #2

I know this has been done with the little Apple logo on the front of the G4. It was hooked up so it switched on when the HD was being accessed.
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iMac case hack idea — #3

There was a kid that did that with his B&W G3 tower. He posted pics of it in th G3/G4 forum. Red LED, looked kind of sinister! He had insturctions with it as to how he wired it…
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iMac case hack idea — #4

No, don't worry. Mine is MUCH MUCh better than that. I just need a little spare $... tuition sucks. GRRRR Ca$h
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iMac case hack idea — #5

Shall we take up a collection for Ca$h? I, for one, would like to know what he's majoring in first. ------------------ Travis Hreno Department of Philo…
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iMac case hack idea — #7

I was majoring in automotive engineering, but now I want to do computer stuff... so... I dunno, i still have no clue what I want to do. How about work for Apple, and make their …
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iMac case hack idea — #8

I hear ya about the Interstate '76 issue... but I think that would be more up to Activision.
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