I picked up a 660AV as part of my last Mac haul, and quickly forgot about it. I was already working through another backlog created by a previous haul, and the 660AV just wasn't on the priority list. It sat in the shed for a bit, I eventually recapped the logic board and got distracted by other things, the logic board sat in a bag for a bit ... you know how it goes.
Well, yesterday I decided to pull it out and finish it off! The board works fine after a recap, and the original TDK PSU also seems to be fine. This 660AV hadn't seen much love, no RAM and no CD drive. The SCSI drive didn't work.
I stole some RAM from a couple of spare 475s, so it's now maxed out at 68MB.
I installed a BlueSCSI with a 2GB image on a 4GB card and installed System 7.1.
I installed a spare 600i drive, but it doesn't want to read discs, I'm going to have to try another spare - I want to play Myst from the original disc on this thing!
I cleaned up the top case, and... it's surprisingly not really very yellowed (most of my machines look more like big blocks of cheese rather than computers at this point). The front is the most yellowed part. You can tell because I fitted a new old stock CD bezel to the front so you can see the contrast.
My original intention with this machine was to sell it on, because it doesn't offer anything too unique until I realised it has a DSP and of course the built-in AV capabilities. OK...this is one neat machine.
Well, yesterday I decided to pull it out and finish it off! The board works fine after a recap, and the original TDK PSU also seems to be fine. This 660AV hadn't seen much love, no RAM and no CD drive. The SCSI drive didn't work.
I stole some RAM from a couple of spare 475s, so it's now maxed out at 68MB.
I installed a BlueSCSI with a 2GB image on a 4GB card and installed System 7.1.
I installed a spare 600i drive, but it doesn't want to read discs, I'm going to have to try another spare - I want to play Myst from the original disc on this thing!
I cleaned up the top case, and... it's surprisingly not really very yellowed (most of my machines look more like big blocks of cheese rather than computers at this point). The front is the most yellowed part. You can tell because I fitted a new old stock CD bezel to the front so you can see the contrast.
My original intention with this machine was to sell it on, because it doesn't offer anything too unique until I realised it has a DSP and of course the built-in AV capabilities. OK...this is one neat machine.