iamdigitalman
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I saw an add on my local craigslist for someone who had 4 vintage macs, a Macintosh Plus (a real one), a Classic II, a Performa 575, and a LC I. I replied, hoping to get all of the macs, but he replied saying the compact macs were called for, and I already have a plus and a Classic I, so I grabbed the other two while on lunch break today from school. The LC came with the monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and the 575 came with the keyboard, mouse, and hard drive bracket in plastic bag. The hard drive is in the 575. I got them home, and popped the back on the 575, and both RAM banks are full, along with a 10 base Sonic-T comm ethernet card. Unsure on hard drive size or OS.
Upon popping the cover of the LC I, I was sadly disappointed. The battery looks to have leaked and BLOWN off the board, as a damp battery in holder was loose on the board, and underneath it was a puddle of goo. It gets worse. There is a capacitor laying on a chip towards the back, and it looks to have a puddle around it, though it seems to be attached still. The battery goo took out the 68020, and there is a nice rust spot on the top case sheet metal above where the batterysplosion was. Anyone want to explain this one? both RAM slots are full, and it has a hard drive marked Apple 40SC, so it is not a complete loss, but I wanted the LC because I had an LC III whose SCSI bus blew, and a LC I that just died one day, and I never bothered to fix it, just sent it off to a recycler (I never throw macs away).
Though, it's not all bad. I really wanted the 575, which is identical to the LC575. Trinitron display, SCSI drives, System 7 support, and ethernet, one of apple's finest 68k macs, and one of the nicest pre iMac AIO machines, save for maybe a G3 AIO, or 5400/5500.
I have yet to power it up, as I had to get back to school.
Not a bad haul, and my first conquest in over a year. I have a 520 too, but it is not nearly as nice. I am not a fan of the caddy CD drive (actually, I don't even think this one has one!), and the latches for the motherboard access door snapped off the first time I tried to open it up. Must have gotten brittle from age.
Upon popping the cover of the LC I, I was sadly disappointed. The battery looks to have leaked and BLOWN off the board, as a damp battery in holder was loose on the board, and underneath it was a puddle of goo. It gets worse. There is a capacitor laying on a chip towards the back, and it looks to have a puddle around it, though it seems to be attached still. The battery goo took out the 68020, and there is a nice rust spot on the top case sheet metal above where the batterysplosion was. Anyone want to explain this one? both RAM slots are full, and it has a hard drive marked Apple 40SC, so it is not a complete loss, but I wanted the LC because I had an LC III whose SCSI bus blew, and a LC I that just died one day, and I never bothered to fix it, just sent it off to a recycler (I never throw macs away).
Though, it's not all bad. I really wanted the 575, which is identical to the LC575. Trinitron display, SCSI drives, System 7 support, and ethernet, one of apple's finest 68k macs, and one of the nicest pre iMac AIO machines, save for maybe a G3 AIO, or 5400/5500.
I have yet to power it up, as I had to get back to school.
Not a bad haul, and my first conquest in over a year. I have a 520 too, but it is not nearly as nice. I am not a fan of the caddy CD drive (actually, I don't even think this one has one!), and the latches for the motherboard access door snapped off the first time I tried to open it up. Must have gotten brittle from age.
I've got an LCII with system 7.5.3 installed on it, and an old ethernet card that hates new equipment somehow. It won't work with anything that auto-negotiates or that has 100mbps. Took me forever to even get the card working (reseating the rom helped I suspect).
