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Rest in Peace Macintosh LC

Was the floppy drive or the case salvadgeable? Sucks to pay shipping on something that a quick visual inspection would show that its dead.

 
I got 5 Macs total shipped to me including the LC, so it wasn't that bad.

The top case plastic is cracked, and the top case metal shielding is ruined by battery acid. I threw away the metal and I'm going to throw away the plastic if nobody wants it.

The bottom plastic is OK, and the bottom metal can probably be cleaned up. The speaker and fan assembly looks fine.

The Floppy looks OK, and the SIMMs and VRAM are probably OK as well. The power supply has some acid on it and may or may not be OK. I pulled off a SCSI cable, floppy cable, and SCSI power.

The dead board and 2 ROM chips are being shipped to MultiFinder17, since he can make use of some of the stuff off the board.

 
The plastic is only cracked on one corner. It could have been dropped on that corner, which could have then spurred the very old battery (circa 1990 - 1992) to explode or leak.

 
what did they do?!Burn it or something?!

:O
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I got the mobo (like he said), and it looks like the battery just got jarred or something and asploded, leaked under one of the ROMs, and obliterating about 1/3 of the board around it. The rest of it looks like it's gotten repeatedly wet. There was rust and water stains all over it.

I feel very sorry for that little LC. :(

I say we start the WSPAM. The World Society for the Protection of Abandoned Macintoshes.

 
It was probably an abused school machine. I saw a "tattooed" 5200 not long ago from a school and also saw a 12" monitor from a high school which read "computers are gay" on it.

The biggest crime at my alma mater didn't involve Macs, it was Micron Client Pro towers. In 2000, they featured little blue ovals which read "Micron Electronics" on their front bezels. They were secured only by a little bit of sticky stuff. These got stolen all the time. I saw them on everything from binders to lockers to clarinet cases. Even the teachers lost their Micron ovals.

I'm willing to bet that LC was a school victim.

 
It was probably an abused school machine. I saw a "tattooed" 5200 not long ago from a school and also saw a 12" monitor from a high school which read "computers are gay" on it.
The biggest crime at my alma mater didn't involve Macs, it was Micron Client Pro towers. In 2000, they featured little blue ovals which read "Micron Electronics" on their front bezels. They were secured only by a little bit of sticky stuff. These got stolen all the time. I saw them on everything from binders to lockers to clarinet cases. Even the teachers lost their Micron ovals.

I'm willing to bet that LC was a school victim.
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From what i saw at my high school, nothing at all would surprise me. The Ipexes we had used to lose their drive bay faceplates fairly often, as would floppy drives. In 2001 and 2002 they bought a whole bunch of brand new Dell Optiplexes. Some people discovered that you could open the door that housed the front panel USB ports and pop out the Dell badge, and it wasn't at all long until most of the machines had been debadged, and the badges started showing up everywhere - lockers, books, walls, doors even. And i think i saw one on someone's car too.

 
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