Ebony and Ivory is three computers in one--a Mac, a PC, and a Linux server, in one custom built server. The full build information is on my server.

The case was made from wood, with plexiglass doors. A mask and spray glass frosting paint was used to give each door its special signal.

The Mac insides were the motherboard from a 400 MHz G4 PowerMac (Gigabit ethernet version) with a 1.4 GHz upgrade board installed. I first tried a 1 GHz G4 PowerMac's motherboard, and wound up killing it. Then I tried and eMac motherboard, killed it. Tried the older design as I read on the website, it worked. I'd love to try to put in a G5, but without assistance from an Apple engineer to be sure it would work, my budget can't take another doorstop.

It has a 8x DVD+-R/RW Pioneer drive, as well as compact flash media reader.

Pictures of the PC side (3 GHz Pentium 4) and Linux compartment (500 MHz VIA on mini-itx board) for those interested.

I'm posting from Ebony and Ivory now.

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