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The typewriter PC

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Grathrax

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Recently I was on a thrift store trip and saw this typewriter and thought, time for a case mod!

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(in one piece)

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(cover off)

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I got all the guts out and started cutting, removing a lot of little mount points and stuff for the typewriter so i could lay out my system board.

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Here I have cut out space for the optical drive, which will be a DVD burner from the system in my sig. Unfortunately the system in my sig has a bad motherboard or ram or cpu, and i cant pinpoint it. Every time I replace something, something else breaks. So I gave up on it and am starting from scratch.

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here you have my layout plan for the system. All the parts you see here are dead, becuase i hadn't picked up an old machine from my grandma yet that is going to make up a lot of the parts.

Unfortunately I realized that I hadn't used that keyboard in years, and so when i tested it on my laptop and another machine, it didnt work. I had cut the case a lot for it, you can see in the pic with just the burner that shows you how much I cut out of the upper half of the case so it would mount in the posistion I have it in the other pics. The IBM keyboard I am going to use instead is a little smaller, so i have to find a way to fill the gap its leaving...ill upload some more pics tommorrow when I start mounting the actual mobo i will be using and stuff.

The computer I got from my grandma is an old Compaq with a K6 (or K6-2) for the CPU. The system board appears to be MATX like the one above from the 10 second look I got at it. The thing is older than I thought though because I did notice 2 ISA slots on the board in addition to a few PCI. Since my iBook only has a 40 gig hd, im going to put the 2 HDs from the AMD sys in my sig into this and load fedora to run a samba server, probably mostly in CLI or that other xwindows system for POS computers.

will update tommorrow
 
great idea, i beleive someone else did this, or converted the type writer into a keyboard, the old fashined type writers, mapped all the keys to it.
i think you should of kept the type writer keyboard. and if anything just added keys.
 
MrGuvernment said:
But that it what makes it so much better as a custom job :D
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Well, ive still got the keyboard, but i am a complete ignoramous when it would come to rewiring the damn thing...plus it doesnt have all the same keys a PC does, so even if i were to put them onto a different keyboard it wouldnt look right.

In the mean time, Im just praying that when I dismantle the old machine to use it all works out right and stuff.
 
get a 1U heatsink and ATX power supply, what you have there looks huge.

This project reminds me of the good times me and the C64 had.
 
bob said:
get a 1U heatsink and ATX power supply, what you have there looks huge.

This project reminds me of the good times me and the C64 had.
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Unfortunately right now I am a broke ass college kid home for the summer, without a job beacuse I got a research grant back at school next week and no one will hire me for < 1 month. Trust me, if I wasn't broke as hell I would be buying new parts for the inside. As for space, everything actually is fitting just fine right now, the HD enclosure is going to go under the keyboard next to the DVD burner. Might get around to that today. I'll be out of town for the weekend so I don't expect I will get to update again until monday.
 
As I was working on the case I thought to myself...I should probably try and run all this stuff outside the box to see if it all works before I put time into cutting the case. So I did, and I cannot for the life of me get the thing to post properly. I can get into the bios but besides that it just hangs at the friggin "COMPAQ* screen and wont boot to my fedora DVD even though the bios is set to do so. The bios doesnt see the HD or the DVD burner. Dammit.

I think ill be scrapping this for now. Ill keep the case though, and in the event that I decide to restart it I will post here.
 
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