Macintosh LC475 stuff

[Dimitris1980]

Hello,

soon i will acquire a Macintosh LC475 with 36 mb of ram and 500mb hard drive. The guy that owns it will do to me a better price if i take it without hard drive. I have two 50-pin scsi hard drives that i used on my macintosh perfoma 6116 (1,2 gb and 4,5 gb). Can i install these hard drives on the LC475? Generally what upgrades i can do to the LC to make it faster? I saw also that you can install an apple ii card. With this card you can run apple ii games and programs like a real apple ii computer? Which operation system must i have installed in order to change from 24-bit to 32-bit (and the opposite) addressing mode? It does not have a cd rom drive so how can i copy files from my macintosh performa 6116? With a ppc upgrade you have the ability to change from the extensions from motorola to ppc and the opposite (i can do it on my macintosh performa 6116 with the sonnet g3)? These for now...

Regards

Dimitris from Greece

 

[EvilCapitalist]

You'll want to make sure whichever hard drive you use is formatted with HFS Standard since 68Ks can't use HFS Plus drives (assuming you had formatted the drives using HFS Plus on the 6116). 

With the LC you're limited to one thing at a time as far as upgrades go (for the most part) if you're taking advantage of the PDS slot:

Upgrade to a PPC:

Cards are rare and from what I've read, not really worth it because you're still stuck with a low RAM ceiling, low bus speed, and it only gets you to a 601 @ 100MHz at best if memory serves.  If the LC475 has the stock 68LC040 the best upgrade would be a full 68040 and then putting the IIe card or a network card in the PDS slot.

IIe card:

The card has a special cable that allows you to use a 5.25" drive from an Apple II series with your machine as well as a joystick.  If you get a card without the cable you're a bit stuck unless you've got disk images of the software you're trying to run and a ProDOS partition on your hard drive.  You'll need to be using some version of System 7 up to 7.5.5, since as far as I remember 7.6 removes the option to switch back to 24-bit addressing.

For the CD-ROM, it's easiest to pick up an external Apple-branded SCSI unit since that will work with just the basic Apple CD-ROM extension.  If you pick up a different one you might have to use FWB CD-ROM Toolkit or something similar to be able to use the drive. 

 

[Dimitris1980]

Thank you for the answers. Is there a way to connect the performa 6116 with the LC475 via a cable and copy files from the one computer to the other (I have done this with target mode via special cable to copy files from my performa 6116 to my powerbook 540c)?

 

[Dimitris1980]

Regarding the cdrom drive I believe 4x will be fine for games.

 

[sstaylor]

You can use a standard mac printer cable to connect the printer ports of the 475 and the 6116 and use it as an AppleTalk network connection.  Really slick little trick that many are unaware of.

 

[Dimitris1980]

I have a serial cable that is connected to my printer or modem port and the other edge to the serial port of macman midi interface (it is for the roland mt32).

 

[Dimitris1980]

Got the LC475. It is really small and light. Hope to find free time soon to play with it.