LC III

[thinkdifferent]

I was very excited to discover an old LC III sitting alone in our school's basement. With the permission of one of our IT people, I took to LC III home along with the SCSI connected hard disk it came with. I plugged it in to my PC's monitor via and adapter, and to my delight, I heard the familiar mac start up sound and saw the screen power on. Unfortunately, the system was installed only onto the SCSI hard disk, not the built in hard disk. (Which doesn't make sense, considering the external is 20 MB and internal is 160 MB.) I will need to find the appropriate adapter to connect them. Very happy, over all!

 

[Mike Richardson]

You're lucky. You got a very lenient IT person.

I remember when I was in elementary school and all the Apple IIGS computers were taken out of service for new PCs. The computer teacher fought to get me one of those IIGS systems but the district refused. I suppose they were all sold at auction.

 

[Christopher]

Probably because they used the internal drive for more storage? I would do that if I had a FireWire 800 drive.

 

[JRL]

My school's IT teacher is very lenient too; they let me take a heavily upgraded Macintosh LC (600 MB hard drive; 10 MB RAM) home. Unfortunately, I don't have much time to use it anymore, but it's still one of my most cherished Macs.

Have fun with your Macintosh LC III!

 

[thinkdifferent]

Thank you all for the replies :b&w:

The LC III was scheduled to be recycled due to its age. I believe it was previously used by the board of ed, then passed down to our middle school for use by the music department. As far as I know, it has been sitting there, unused, for years. The LC no longer shows up on our schools IT inventory list. I doubt that IT could have used it for spare parts. A 160 MB Hard Disk and 25 MHz processor are hardly valuable in a modern day working environment.