MinerAl
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I recently won (in my pursuit of putting an LC shaped board inside a face-lifted Mac Classic II) both a Performa 460 and a Quadra 605. They both made it to me in working condition, but the 605's bottom case was shattered beyond repair in the shipping.
The 605 didn't have video when I first plugged it in, but I did a little reading here and found that the PRAM battery is important to the video on these. So, after a $7 trip to microcenter, I had a very nice working 36MB RAM/ 512k VRAM Q605 board in a badly-broken-bottomed case, and a working P460 (no extra RAM or VRAM, and that super-high-freq-squeal LCs that need caps make) and a 40 MB HD that I stole out of the Classic II and installed a tiny custom install of 7.5.3 on.
So I moved the nicer logic board into the nicer case bottom, put the tiny but functional hard drive in it, and put the very nice 605 top case on it to create a hybrid monster pizza-box thing. It has the angled stance of a 460/475, but the swelled skirts of a 605.
The 605 didn't have video when I first plugged it in, but I did a little reading here and found that the PRAM battery is important to the video on these. So, after a $7 trip to microcenter, I had a very nice working 36MB RAM/ 512k VRAM Q605 board in a badly-broken-bottomed case, and a working P460 (no extra RAM or VRAM, and that super-high-freq-squeal LCs that need caps make) and a 40 MB HD that I stole out of the Classic II and installed a tiny custom install of 7.5.3 on.
So I moved the nicer logic board into the nicer case bottom, put the tiny but functional hard drive in it, and put the very nice 605 top case on it to create a hybrid monster pizza-box thing. It has the angled stance of a 460/475, but the swelled skirts of a 605.