Original LC

[Scott Baret]

I got an original LC last night. I have no idea what to do with it!

I'm thinking of either having it take the place of my Plus or the IIsi server I use (only because I have way more LC RAM on my hands and can upgrade it big time).

There was also a monitor, StyleWriter II, and ImageWriter II in the haul. I haven't tested my new stuff yet because right now my project is the LC 520 (which I should have done by tomorrow...hopefully everything works...it's just taking me a while because I've never cracked the case of a 520 like this before!)

 

[Cory5412]

Awesome, congrats on the LC! There really isn't much you can do with them, upgrade-wise, they take ten megs of ram, a faster/newer hard disc would probably help significantly, speed-wise, and I've got an Apple II card in mine, so if I ever find any Apple II games, I know what to do with them. (Actually, I'd much rather have an ethernet card for mine, but I'm not going to complain.)

With the 12" monitor, they're such adorable little systems too, shame that most people seem obsessed with having the biggest/bestest/baddest Quadra they can find. At most of our budgets, an LC is what we would've had as our main Mac in 1991. Heck, a lot of us would've had a Classic or a used Plus, I bet.

 

[Scott Baret]

I had an LC as my main Mac from 1992-2000. That one, with its matching 12" monitor, are safely in their boxes in my closet. That LC is maxed out with 10MB RAM and 512K VRAM--16 bit colour on the 12".

Don't get me wrong, I would have died for a Quadra 900 when we got the LC, but that's what could be afforded at the time with a colour monitor (the only reason we got one is because my mom wanted me to be able to use Kid Pix in colour...no joke...she had said "the Classic would be fine, but then Scott couldn't use Kid Pix that well").

 

[Cory5412]

I'm sure a lot of people justified it that way, and that's reasonable enough. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people today who justify the next model up on the computing ladder because "then suzy can put her movies on DVD easier" or something like that.

I won't lie, when I was young, I would've loved having the top-end 8600 or 9600. But alas. [] ]'>

 

[Mike Richardson]

Our first Mac was an LC II - 16 MHz that we got in 1994 (maybe 1993) on discount. In 1997 we got a 6500/250. It was as if the shackles had been removed - the increase in speed was massive. My mom laid out a lot of cash for that Mac - I think she wanted to future proof it. Only in 2004 was that Mac finally discontinued from daily use - talk about future proof (RAM upgrades, a new hard drive, and G3 upgrade helped - but these upgrades were all made after 2001). I imagine my G5 will see daily use for at least as long - but the iMac G4 is showing it's age.