My plan for the RetroChallenge

[LCGuy]

I've been thinking about my plan for the RetroChallenge. I'm thinking of entering the Hardware challenge.

Some of you may remember many years ago that I had an LC475, with which I ran its SCSI chain in a case from an AST Premmia. The original plan was to put the entire Mac in the PC case, but sadly the Mac's PSU didn't like being put into the PC case, and at that stage I didn't have the pinouts for the mobo power supply connector, so I ran the internal SCSI ribbon out the back of the PC case, and then into the back of the LC case, which was placed right underneath the PC case, and then connected it to the internal SCSI connector on the motherboard.

At the end of 2003, I completed it, and put the logic board in the PC case, and had it running off the AT power supply. It was pretty sweet...it had an internal HDD, and two CD-ROM drives. It ran for about two days before the AT PSU blew. After that I put the Mac back in the original case and reinstalled the internal HD in the original case, and its been like that for the past four years.

I've got a few AT PSUs now, so I'm thinking...how about I revive it for the retrochallenge?

 

[luddite]

Sounds like a worthwhile project...

 

[zerohour]

I have an 8500 sitting in the garage untouched spent ages trying to get it to work but give up due to SCSI voodoo proving a bit difficult.

I also did not have a Mac monitor so I could not see any video output and my VGA adapter i could not get working.

Now I have the monitor and the parts are still sitting about maybe I should resurrect it and see if it works.

Just not sure if it will work with a 35GB SCA hard drive even though I have the adapter.

 

[Cory5412]

I like the idea, and while "hackintosh" is a bit cheesy, at the time you and I originally discussed it, it was the first time I'd heard about it.

I'd say you could call it something else silly, like SuperLC, or PowerLC, or "LC with a whole bunch of drives inside."

(An LC board would be cool for the project, for it's dual floppy ports, although a 475 is a lot faster. )

 

[LCGuy]

Yeah...well the thing is, I first called it the Hackintosh way back before the OSx86 movement was ever thought of, back in 2001 when the fastest Mac you could buy was a G4, and OS 9 was here, OS X 10.0 was the future, Mac people thought that Intel was evil, nobody outside of Apple had ever heard of an iPod, I was still in high school, etc etc.

Yeah...I have no idea what I'll call it. The reason I'm going with the LC475 board is that I already have two of 'em, plus the best 68k Mac I have set up at the moment is a 475, and this would be a nice upgrade to it. (remember, my 630 has a PowerPC board in it)

Btw, zerohour...thats a great idea to get that 8500 up and going...the 8500 is a classic machine, in more ways than one...