If you have a penchant for modifications as well as the time to dabble with DIY projects, then you might just be stoked to know what Dean Gray has just done with an old school Macintosh Plus, removing its innards while replacing them with half a dozen hard drives to touch a whopping 2.3TB of storage space – something the original Macintosh Plus could never do. Of course, to keep up with the times, it will also run on an Intel Atom motherboard alongside a 10.4″ display. Dean intends to continue working on this project by throwing in Wi-Fi connectivity down the road, but for the moment, his beloved project will function as a Time Machine backup destination that is rather similar in nature to an Apple Time Capsule or a Drobo running on OS X. Just what other crazy ideas for a mod do you think you might have up your sleeve?

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