What to do with an LC?

[pee-air]

I have an old LC that is never used and too slow for any practical use. I was looking at it today, and it appears the capacitors are leaking as well. Which is probably the reason why there's problems with the sound. ie. The capacitors are located in the area where the sound circuitry is.

So, what to do with it?

I don't think it's worth the effort of fixing. So I'm thinking that I'll just salvage the power supply as a backup for my LC III, and the simms for my Quadra 950. The rest I believe will be sitting at the curb next week. This will bring my Mac collection down to five. (So much for sentimentality! [}] ]'>

Anyone have any good reason for me to keep this thing around?

 

[MacMan]

Fit a handle and turn it into a lunch box. I hope you like pizza!

 

[pee-air]

A lunchbox? Like I said, it has no practical use. To get any practical use out of a lunchbox, I would have to get a job! And I don't expect I'll be getting one of those anytime soon. [] ]'>

 

[coius]

lunch box? just keep it as a monitor stand to prop up those horrible 12/13" RGB displays that apple produced. At least that way, it will have gotten the monitors up high enough that you can see them!

 

[The Macster]

lunch box? just keep it as a monitor stand to prop up those horrible 12/13" RGB displays that apple produced. At least that way, it will have gotten the monitors up high enough that you can see them!

My LC II just sits under the Studio Display that has the non-working height-adjustable stand - not many other uses for it given that it doesn't seem to work any more (I suspect capacitors again)

 

[luddite]

lunch box? just keep it as a monitor stand to prop up those horrible 12/13" RGB displays that apple produced. At least that way, it will have gotten the monitors up high enough that you can see them!

I have an LC II under my G3 iMac... I find it puts it at a much more useable angle than the built-in "stand".

 

[pee-air]

just keep it as a monitor stand to prop up those horrible 12/13" RGB displays that apple produced.

I should have mentioned that I'm getting rid of those too. And this horrible 17" monitor that Dell distributed under their brand name.

 

[alk]

Gut it, and fit it with a Mac Mini inside?

Just a thought.

Peace,

Drew

 

[The Macster]

That would be very expensive though and a bit of a waste of a Mac Mini, so why not fit an old PC (perhaps a laptop with a dead screen) in there? (that would be a lot cheaper and not waste the nice case of the Mini) You could maybe line up a narrow laptop's motherboard so that its ports are at the back where the holes on the LC are. If you could find a new enough (P4) PC, you could even use it as a Mac by putting OSx86 on there, if the idea of a Windows PC inside a Mac case is too unbearable for you! Although you would have to be very very good at hardware stuff to even attempt that, I could certainly never do anything like that!

 

[pee-air]

That's actually not a bad idea. I have an old eMachines motherboard kicking around with builtin video, sound, usb, etcetera. It's only 500MHz, but that would be fine for a little file server. The eMachines motherboard and a hard drive should fit in there no problem. But what about a power supply?

 

[Mike Richardson]

Do you not have much space pee-air? You seem to be throwing everything away. I've got all my Macs tucked away around the apartment. One whole closet is dedicated to Macs, and I have 7 LC 5xx Macs under my bed. It all fits nicely.

I've done cap replacement on my Performa 400. However it was my very first Mac so I guess it has some sentimental value. It's running great now but it doesn't get used much.

 

[pee-air]

Actually, I don't have much space... I could stack the stuff around, but it really looks awful... And I can't really justify having a lot of unused stuff laying around. You might be able to justify it in your particular circumstance, but I can't. For you, it's obviously important to have all of these old Macs around... For me however, they serve as nothing more than an eyesore.

I'm content with my Q700, Q950, and LCIII for 68k Macs. Those three machines will do everything I could ever hope to want to do on a 68k Macintosh.

The beige G3 and 7300 are all I need as far as PPC powermacs goes. I don't really even need to have both of those. The G3 alone would be more than sufficient. But I really like to keep at least one powermac around as a backup, should the G3 bite the dust.

I'm actually beginning to develop more of an interest in x86 hardware. They run linux really well and they're much easier to tinker with because components are so plentiful and cheap in my town.