This Home Made Mac Has a Real CRT

Cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions may no longer be in production, but its last bastion came in the form of extremely cheap little Chinese portable sets with a black-and-white tube. Theyāre now useless for broadcast TV, so can often be had for next-to-nothing. [Action Retro] has a video showing a Mac Classic clone using one, and with a built-in Raspberry Pi and a copy of RiscOS it almost makes a usable computer.
The video below the break is a little heavy on the 3D printer sponsor and the Mac case comes from a Thingiverse project, but itās well executed and weāre grateful for being introduced to that original project. Weād have gone for a period-correct beige filament rather than the glow-in-the-dark green one used here.
Weāre guessing that more than one reader will have a few of those TVs around the place, such is their ubiquity. Is it worth making this as a novelty item? It depends upon your viewpoint, but we canāt help liking the result even if perhaps itās not for us. If RiscOS isnāt quite the thing, thereās an option a little closer to the real thing.
from Blog ā Hackaday https://ift.tt/QtRsUI1
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