A Hackintosh ... in 1986

On 06/06/2010 11:57 PM, Al Hartman wrote: Was this How to Build Your Own Macintosh and Save a Bundle, by (I think) Bob Brant (sp?) I've built a IIcx hackintosh back around the early 1990's based on the 2nd version of that book. There were some issues with the power supply pinouts, but someone who knew pointed me in the right direction. :-) Was much easier with a IIcx since I was able to use a real NuBus video card from someone who upgraded to a 24 bit card and was going to throw the old 8 bit card away. It looked ugly, but it worked very nicely. The only snag I hit is that I wired up both the reset and the programmer's switch with aligator clips to the motherboard: the programmer's switch went to the "Turbo" switch, but unfortunately, the turbo switch was in the "on" position when not in Turbo mode, the opposite of what I expected, so when I powered it on, I was greeted by a car crash sound. The IIcx doesn't like both the NMI and RESET lines to be on at the same time. For a moment, I thought I screwed something up, and was thinking of swapping the RAM around, but somehow I played with the reset/turbo buttons and got it to boot. Was a beautiful sight to see the happy mac icon on a nice Sony color VGA monitor. No green screen. The only real Apple parts were the motherboard, video card, and a mouse. Rest was all third party. The floppy drive was an Applied Engineering external model, but at some point the ribbon cable broke, so I mounted it, still in it's external case, inside the 286 case and ran a floppy ribbon cable out the back to the mobo... Good times. :-D