Color Classic from Japan

[jlindsay26]

I'm a total lurker enjoy reading posts, but figured I'd share this experience. I have a color classic, but I wanted one to make a Takky. I figured I'd try buyee bought one with accessories keyboard and the other stuff that came in the box bid roughly $80 and won for some reason I figure shipping might be $150ish maybe cheaper seamail. Turned out seamail wasn't an option and shipping was $230 more than I was expecting but didn't want to have them dispose of it so I paid. Just arrived today the box was huge turns out it was shipped in the original box, so that was kind of cool. Pulled the logic board out to take a look for corrosion and to my suprise it had a Sonnet Presto LC accelerator. So this buy turned out well so far haven't had as good luck trying to replace my powerbook 2400c bought three figuring I might be able to get two working so far only have one that's happy at least it the 240mhz 603e.

 

[jlindsay26]

boy my feeling are hurt i figured someone would reply with that's cool, oh well. guess it's back to work and buying old mac stuff on buyee and ebay.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

No need for hurt feelings - and welcome!

That is indeed a nice find! Remove the PRAM battery if you haven’t already, and you should get that board recapped as well, even if you aren’t going to use it, for the sake of preservation. Got lucky with that accelerator too!

 

[ymk]

Welcome! Good luck on the conversion and take plenty of pictures along the way.

 

[jlindsay26]

Thanks for the comments I went ahead order a cap kit for the logic board which doesn't seem to be working. Haven't really dug into it besides putting my good board in the new system and it booted. I move the Sonnet Presto to my other Color Classic Logic Board found the extension for it and it's working as well. Only wish the Color Classic didn't have the 10mb memory limit feel like the accelerator would be better in Color Classic II or LC III

 

[olePigeon]

Considering it came with a Presto 040 accelerator, the $230 shipping just paid for itself. You came out ahead.

 

[jlindsay26]

Considering it came with a Presto 040 accelerator, the $230 shipping just paid for itself. You came out ahead.

yep in the end it worked out, but boy I was thinking what did I do. On the plus side everything beside that logic board is working and in good shape no damage to the case since it shipped in the original box. But I do think I'll have to be a bit more careful about buying on Buyee to avoid sticker shock on shipping. I guess it also good that I feel like this phase of getting old mac that I use to own has almost run it's course. Plus with my comic, toys and video game collection I'm running out of space keep telling myself I'll start downsizing when I retire in 10-15 years.

 

[ObeyDaleks]

So do you still intend to do the Takky mod as originally planned?

 

[jlindsay26]

So do you still intend to do the Takky mod as originally planned?

I have two of these now, I didn't want to butcher my nicer one so yes. I've got a harness and a 6500 Logic Board. I'll probably start working on the Takky in the next few weeks. I also have to a few other repair projects that I need to finish. Replace the backlight on my working 2400c waiting on the parts, I still want to see if I can revive at least one more 2400c from two units with GLOD. That been a serious pain it got one to boot off an external scsi drive but I forgot to install the internal drive. Powered it off to put an internal drive in back to GLOD. Also have some boards to recap SE/30 with low volume, the color classic board from this Mac, and a IIsi logic board and power supply.

 

[jlindsay26]

Recapped the logic board on this color classic and now it's working. Recapped one of my SE/30 logic boards and now I'm having issues with the video. Picture is good relatively speaking but it shakes and shrinks/expands on the right side. I'm going to swap boards tomorrow and double check my work.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

The SE/30 video issue is going to be on the analog board

 

[jlindsay26]

The SE/30 video issue is going to be on the analog board

Thanks for the tip I'm going to do a logic board swap to confirm since I have two system, but it may be time to consider recapping the analog board as well. I think the next Mac to recap will be my IIsi that doesn't power on I already have the power supply and logic board kits from console5. After that maybe SE/30 analog boards since I'll have to order the kits

 

[jlindsay26]

The SE/30 video issue is going to be on the analog board

Did the board swap and confirmed the recapped logic board was fine. So I'll be ordering the analog cap kit

 

[Byrd]

I think we’ve all been burnt on here buying from Buyee. What seems like a passable deal until it goes through various “ checks” fees get stacked up and you end up having no option but to fork out an exorbitant amount and can’t get out of it. I wouldn’t bother with Buyee again.

 

[jlindsay26]

I think we’ve all been burnt on here buying from Buyee. What seems like a passable deal until it goes through various “ checks” fees get stacked up and you end up having no option but to fork out an exorbitant amount and can’t get out of it. I wouldn’t bother with Buyee again.

Any suggestion for other proxy services I'm thinking I'm going to give FromJapan a try. In the end this worked out but if it weren't for the Sonnet Presto LC it would have been more than I would have wanted to spend. Also had the experience of consolidating shipping and it was more expensive by a little bit.

 

[jlindsay26]

Bought this on ebay about a month ago picture is from the listing finally had a chance to shoehorn it into my SE/30. That involved an angle grinder to fit the IIsi apapter into the PDS slot on the board. Try powering it on and no chime garbage on the screen tried a different logic board still didn't work took the card out and the FPU was hot. Any one want to guess what wrong with the picture.

 

[Phipli]

Bought this on ebay about a month ago picture is from the listing finally had a chance to shoehorn it into my SE/30. That involved an angle grinder to fit the IIsi apapter into the PDS slot on the board. Try powering it on and no chime garbage on the screen tried a different logic board still didn't work took the card out and the FPU was hot. Any one want to guess what wrong with the picture.

The FPU has been inserted the wrong way.

Hope it hasn't done too much damage

I was expecting to see a 16MHz part, this is worse!

 

[jlindsay26]

Yep, I pulled the FPU and put it in correctly. After that was able to boot successful ran Speedometer and it a bit more then double the stock speed and about 60% of a Quadra 605. Still trying to decide if I'm going to spring for Bolle's adapter. I came across an article on using a right angle connector off a maccon which would be cheaper since I have a maccon

 

[Phipli]

Yep, I pulled the FPU and put it in correctly. After that was able to boot successful ran Speedometer and it a bit more then double the stock speed and about 60% of a Quadra 605. Still trying to decide if I'm going to spring for Bolle's adapter. I came across an article on using a right angle connector off a maccon which would be cheaper since I have a maccon

FPU is running OK?! Nice

Might be worth running TechTool 3.0 on it to make sure.

 

[Byrd]

Any suggestion for other proxy services I'm thinking I'm going to give FromJapan a try. In the end this worked out but if it weren't for the Sonnet Presto LC it would have been more than I would have wanted to spend. Also had the experience of consolidating shipping and it was more expensive by a little bit.

Please post back here if you ever go through FromJapan for something else. Basically you need a friend in Japan that can send you stuff back, a lot of bigger eBay vintage computer sellers clearly do this and do quite well I'd say.