CC and 57x mobo

[ChristTrekker]

A nice fellow found an old CL post of mine and asked if I still wanted old Macs. He's moving and had recycled most of his old computer gear, except for a Color Classic and upgrade mobo. He said I could have them (even dropped them off at my house) if I promised to send pics if I made a fish tank. Since this fell in my lap, it's like the Mac "conquested" me!

The CC is in great, almost pristine, physical condition. He didn't know if it was bootable, and I haven't tried yet. It has a twin-port Farallon NIC I've never seen before, and all RAM slots are filled. The upgrade mobo I assume is from a 57x. No RAM or battery in it, but I've got RAM. He also gave me a set of CC install floppies, and disk tools floppies for 7.0, 7.6, and 8. Nice!

Maybe I'll have to put my Mystic restoration back on the front burner, and get a pair of them up and running.

 

[Unknown_K]

I think the LC 550 was a direct swap (color classic 2 board sold in Japan), did it have the original unhacked bezel in the back?

 

[ChristTrekker]

It has the original CC bezel. The other mobo isn't a 550, as that's just a faster '030 IIRC. This has an LC040.

I did a little searching on the NIC, and it seems most unusual. It's apparently relatively rare, and it allows you to daisy chain ethernet through it.

 

[jruschme]

The dual-port Ethernet board is a Farallon EtherWave. It was their attempt to have the cabling benefits of 10Base-T with the bus topology of their older PhoneNet products.

They actually had a pretty full product line which included NuBus and LC network cards, a PCMCIA card (3C589-based), ISA card (for PC), AAUI adapter, a serial-based adapter (Mac/PB adapter) and a PhoneNet "bridge" for AppleTalk printers.