Welcome back to Retro Tech Minute. Today we’ve got a real surprise for vintage Mac fans. Imagine finding a 1987 Macintosh SE case at a garage sale—only to discover it had been gutted and painted to become an aquarium. That’s exactly what happened to Duncan Hall, but instead of fish, he filled it with a Dell XPS Core i7 laptop motherboard and called the result the “PhoeNIX SE.”

Duncan swapped the old monochrome CRT for a 9.7-inch LCD mounted on custom 3D-printed brackets. He even kept two floppy bays—one now houses a webcam for Zoom calls, “a bit surreal,” as he admits, while the other remains artfully empty. In his words, “once that’s gone? You might as well go full modern.” He’s running Linux on this restomod, keeping all I/O neatly on a new 3D-printed rear panel, just as Steve Jobs intended.

Whether you love restorations or controversial restomods, this project is certainly a better fate for an old Mac than a fish tank. That’s your Retro Tech Minute.
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