kissmyash933
Well-known member
I've had this machine for about a month now, just havent gotten around to posting. But, a little while back, I was looking around for an LC III, and a seller on LEMSwap just so happened to have one. (for 35 shipped, I might add!) To my surprise when I opened the box, not only was there an LC III in there, but a Q605 as well! Someone else gave me the monitor a little while ago, and so it ends up being that I now have a completely Apple Branded, period correct machine. I've never had a Mac with all of its period correct matching components before. (some of these things I did have laying around though...)
Upgraded to a 1 GB SCSI HD. Put the smaller drive in the LCIII which was lacking a drive.
upgraded to 36 MB of ram.
OverClocked to 33MHz (and the LCIII as well, thanks Uniserver for the good directions!)
Gave it a fresh install of System 7.5.3
Farallon EtherWave (with two ethernet ports, still havent quite figured out why, exactly.)
Dug the ole' AppleCD 300 out of the box to go with it.
Took the timebomb Red Maxxell battery out and replaced it with a fresh Tadiran.
The only thing that doesn't seem to be working properly is the FDD, it wont format a disk, and upon eject, the disk gets stuck. I had to open the lid to push the button to get that disk out. any advice on how to fix these old drives? I'd prefer not to use the chuck-it-and-replace method.
anywho, the microquadra is now running beautifully on my little coffee table workstation. Sorry for the bad image quality, I had to take this in ISO6400.
Upgraded to a 1 GB SCSI HD. Put the smaller drive in the LCIII which was lacking a drive.
upgraded to 36 MB of ram.
OverClocked to 33MHz (and the LCIII as well, thanks Uniserver for the good directions!)
Gave it a fresh install of System 7.5.3
Farallon EtherWave (with two ethernet ports, still havent quite figured out why, exactly.)
Dug the ole' AppleCD 300 out of the box to go with it.
Took the timebomb Red Maxxell battery out and replaced it with a fresh Tadiran.
The only thing that doesn't seem to be working properly is the FDD, it wont format a disk, and upon eject, the disk gets stuck. I had to open the lid to push the button to get that disk out. any advice on how to fix these old drives? I'd prefer not to use the chuck-it-and-replace method.
anywho, the microquadra is now running beautifully on my little coffee table workstation. Sorry for the bad image quality, I had to take this in ISO6400.