CC and C

[Cosmo]

Today had time to visit the guy who offered an Color Classic to me earlier this week. Later he found out it did not boot up, or did, but black screen. It had been dropped down years ago, so there's an crack on the corner. But he had other things as well, so i went today and took a look and got these:

iBook G3 366 clamshell graphite

- Power adaptor

Macintosh Color Classic

- No boot.. this is for parts.

- Installed Ethernet card

- The guy said, "has maxium ram" - need to check this tonigh.

Macintosh Classic

- 4Mb RAM

- Very clean, not yellowed

- Keyboard (very clean)

- Mouse

- Installation disks - System 7 in plastic folder with manual

- This came with self made (looks like it) dust jacket for the machine and the keyboard, looks funny This machine came originally from some lady so that makes sense.

Powerbook Duo 210

- 12mb RAM

- 80Mb HDD

- External 1.4M disk drive

- Floppy adapter

- Power adaptor

- Manual (thick one) in FINNISH

- Installation disks - System 7 in plastic folder

And some random software as well:

- Installation disks System 7 in folder, for Quadra 950 with manual

- Installation disks System 7 in folder, for LC III with manual

- OS 8 CD 8.1 FINNISH (just the CD, no retail box)

- OS 9 CD 9.1 FINNISH (just the CD, no retail box)

- System 7.5 CD (cd-version v1.0, 1994)

The guy had worked looong in a some Macintosh repair-sales shop and had TONS of stuff. But.. gotten rid of them later. Only this spring he throw away about an trailer full of stuff. Great. I am always LATE.

But he gave an tip about his ex. boss who had an BOXED never used Apple ][. I'll try that one and call him next week. Who knows what happens.

 

[bibilit]

More rubbish for your wife, great find.

 

[ClassicHasClass]

That's a fun haul.

 

[Cosmo]

Yes! Made some testing. My friend have an fully working Colour Classic so we tested the parts by swapping the motherboard.

my motherboard - his unit = DEAD

his motherboard - my unit = WORKING

So it's my motherboard wich is dead, nothing else. Now it's the case of finding an replacement motherboard! Anyone?

The Graphite iBook was suprisingly fast. 192Mb RAM, 6GB HDD with Finnish 9.2.1, 366mhz. Very nice.

 

[bibilit]

Now it's the case of finding an replacement motherboard! Anyone

You can try to repair your own (maybe just a couple of capacitors), find a replacement or go for an upgrade (LC 525 / LC 575....)

 

[mcdermd]

I'm sure it's just the capacitors. I've had three CCs and they all needed recapping.

 

[Cosmo]

That what can do, it's time for some soldering.. let's see what happens.

 

[Bunsen]

My $0.10 opinion - go for one of the drop-in replacement upgrade motherboards. The CC motherboard is frankly quite limited - max 10MB RAM for example. Then you can repair the original at your leisure.

 

[zuiko21]

Now that you mentioned the roadmap for CC upgrades... the 68LC040-based LC575 board is an easy upgrade, but why the change to a full 68040 is marked on red? Is it really "dangerous"? I expect it to increase heat dissipation, but fitting a small heatsink should suffice, am I wrong?

 

[mcdermd]

My CC Mystic has a 575 board and a full-040 processor without a heat sink. No issues with it running too hot.

http://applefool.com/applefool/Rogues_Gallery/Pages/Macintosh_Color_Classic_%22Mystic%22.html

 

[Cosmo]

Parts are been bought tomorrow and a friend (Juhani) offered to recap the CC motherboard. I'll need to get the equipment and start practising on some other, "not so valuable", motherboard first. Need to wash the board first however.

 

[bibilit]

Don't forget to post some pictures

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Very cool, the Graphite iBook is the only one I was ever tempted to collect, same thing with the iMac. Graphite rocks, maybe because it's the silvery, translucent, metallic descendant of PowerBook Gray in the monochromatic logo era.

 

[olePigeon]

I also like the Sage iMac.

 

[Bunsen]

why the change to a full 68040 is marked on red? Is it really "dangerous"?

No - on that chart, red simply means it's a little more complex than the very easy upgrades. In this case, the "complexity", such as it is, is just safely removing and replacing the CPU.

 

[Cosmo]

No dice with recapping. Thanks to Julehti for trying.

 

[bibilit]

No dice with recapping. Thanks to Julehti for trying.

Too bad. :I

 

[Cosmo]

Anything else to try? Juhani recapped 9 caps, is there anything else could be tried?