MOC: Macintosh II

[Ulrik Hansen]

This is my latest (small) MOC that I started working on a few years ago. After MOCing the NeXT Cube computer that Tim Berners-Lee used to develope World Wide Web, I wanted to build another sort of historical computer:

Macintosh II - Introduced in 1987, the Mac II was Apple's first fully expandable Macintosh computer to compliment the booming Desktop Publishing industry. The case design was an example of the Snow White design language which has vertical and horizontal stripes for decoration, ventilation, and the illusion that the computer enclosure is smaller than it actually is.

Edited November 16, 2014 by WhiteFang
Update of topic title

[Bob De Quatre]

Brings back memories

[Jared]

Awesome job! My mom recognized it right away!

[Ulrik Hansen]

Thanks guys now it just needs a laserwriter and a SyQuest harddrive

Edited November 15, 2014 by Ulrik Hansen

[dr_spock]

Good Job. I remember them.

[WhiteFang]

Good job. I thought the built was very huge, due to the picture presentation. Then I took a careful look, I realised it was kind of micro built.

Meanwhile, I have updated your topic title for better clarify. Thank you for sharing with us.

[Ulrik Hansen]

Good job. I thought the built was very huge, due to the picture presentation. Then I took a careful look, I realised it was kind of micro built.

Meanwhile, I have updated your topic title for better clarify. Thank you for sharing with us.

Thanks for the comment and updating my title I find it thrilling the illusion you can get from LEGO that the scale is not easy to determine.

Edited November 16, 2014 by Ulrik Hansen

[Steph 104th]

Wonderful build, I love the fact that you made the screen curved just makes it that much more real.

Edited November 16, 2014 by Steph 104th

[harakiri]

hehe, still have a IIfx in working condition (part of my private Apple museum - aka shelf of useless old beige boxes )

very recognisable

[Ulrik Hansen]

Wonderful build, I love the fact that you made the screen curved just makes it that much more real.

Thank you for your comment. The curved slopes screen technique is widely used in other computer mini-builds, so I won't take invention credit for that one Chris McVeigh/Powerpig for one uses it.

hehe, still have a IIfx in working condition (part of my private Apple museum - aka shelf of useless old beige boxes )

very recognisable

Yes, they are indeed very iconic I used to also have a IIci years ago before finally giving away all my vintage Macs to an appreciative person with equal museum ambitions as I used to have.

Edited November 17, 2014 by Ulrik Hansen

[henrysunset]

Small, nicely detailed and immediately recognizable. Nice MOC!

[Legogal]

Very, very cool and recognizable! Love the way you used faded white pieces to look old. Just like the faded white cases of all computers in the Eighties. I used a luggable Compaq between 1982 and about 1990 because it had to go to my home some nights. It weighed a ton and had a six inch screen. Now a basic cell phone does so much more than any computer before 2000.

[Ulrik Hansen]

Small, nicely detailed and immediately recognizable. Nice MOC!

Thanks. The stripes were really the epitomy of getting it right.

Very, very cool and recognizable! Love the way you used faded white pieces to look old. Just like the faded white cases of all computers in the Eighties. I used a luggable Compaq between 1982 and about 1990 because it had to go to my home some nights. It weighed a ton and had a six inch screen. Now a basic cell phone does so much more than any computer before 2000.

I did not purposely seek to use faded white pieces. The illusion has something to do with the white balance of the picture after some Photoshoping. But still they differ next to each other and have some effect from that. On the digital dinosaurs of the 80's and 90s' ... I do remember them and the early micros (like the ZX 81/Spectrum) were very cute in camparison

Edited November 21, 2014 by Ulrik Hansen

[Only Sinner]

This is great, I would have only added some 2x2 black tiles to represent the floppies. Great computer for learning basic code on! Maybe you could put this in LegoJalex's '70s/'80s retro kitchen.

[Ulrik Hansen]

This is great, I would have only added some 2x2 black tiles to represent the floppies. Great computer for learning basic code on! Maybe you could put this in LegoJalex's '70s/'80s retro kitchen.

I think blue or gray tiles would be more like 3.5" floppies I actually did consider sticking one half way out of one of the drives I better take a look at LegoJalex

Edited November 25, 2014 by Ulrik Hansen