LCII

[funkytoad]

Yay! My first LCII.

I got it for ten bucks from forum member: im to hyper

It's a great little machine.

I love how it opens like a hood!

 

[macintoshman]

I never had a LC. Is it a good machine? I am trying to avoid flops like the IIvx!

 

[funkytoad]

I haven't had to much experience with it yet.

I know that is works great for the simple tasks I push on it.

The inside is very easy to access.

I do think thats this one could use a fresh OS re-install though.

 

[chris]

I have one. It's a great box, very stable, very good for basic use. Mine has a 68LC040 processor upgrade card though, so I don't know the performance without it, but with it it's great! I use it for playing Crystal Quest It has System 7.1 and the boot time is long but responsiveness is great.

Can't beat the price I got it for either. The guy I got it from booted it before he sold it to me and found out it had a problem, and gave it to me for free. I solved the problem(no money involved, no new parts) and now it's working perfect.

Make sure to put Crystal Quest on there!

 

[bluekatt]

I never had a LC. Is it a good machine? I am trying to avoid flops like the IIvx!

as long as you keep in mind that its crippled and work with thos limitations in mind its an okay machine

 

[chris]

Crippled? I'm aware of its technical limitations and compromises, but if you've ever used one, it's a very good machine. The 10mb RAM limit is the only one I find anywhere near 'crippling', and even that is not severe if you don't need to be doing anything really advanced.

 

[bluekatt]

so you dont call putting a 32 bit cpu on a 16 bit data bus crippeling then ?

 

[chris]

I said I was aware of the technical compromises. However, in actual use the machine is perfectly usable and doesn't feel crippled, not at all.

 

[bluekatt]

personally id rather have a a full 32 bit data bus with my 32 bit cpu

i used an lc2 and wasnt very pleased

 

[chris]

Have you used your Color Classic lately?

 

[chris]

Relevant quote from LowEndMac:

The end of the Classic line in the North American market, the Color Classic shared the motherboard design of the LC II - equally limited in RAM expansion, constricted by a 16-bit data bus, and able to use 16-bit PDS cards designed for the LC. The only significant difference is the presence of a socket for adding a 68882 math coprocessor.

 

[macintoshman]

Why did apple bother to cripple so many systems?

:'(

 

[aftermac]

Apple crippled systems to sell them at a lower price without cannibalizing the sales of more expensive machines.

I have an LC II, but I have not really used it much. We had a ton of LC III's in high school and those were pretty decent computers. A lot of people say the LC II is what the LC should have been. To me that is as much of a compliment to the LC II as a knock against the LC.

 

[macintoshman]

But it costs more to program a ram limit or cripple a cpu to work. Apple spent more crippling! Its cheaper to just make a non crippled computer. Leve the crippling to dell.

 

[aftermac]

Exactly! This is ONE reason why Apple almost ran itself out of business in the 90's.