Toon's good finds ... and the lost ones

[zefrenchtoon]

Few days ago, I took few minutes (who said hours ?) to finally check my Classic’s batteries.
I own 2 Classics:
The first one is … my first Macintosh from when I was 8.
The second one came from the University where my sister is working. The university was going to scrape a bunch of old computers so I saved it with a Yikes.

But I never took the time to open them and I was not equipped to do it.

So … two Classics stored in an attic in an old French abbaye. Imagine the result …


Look at these motherboards and batteries !!



No battery damage ! Unbelievable !!
They will get proper recap asap

 

[zefrenchtoon]

Once I closed my Classics without their respective batteries, I though that I had to scavenge some RAM sticks for my 475 and my 6100 from some of my other Macs stored in the attic.
First, I’ve got one from my old 475 then I saw a 630 and though that it could be a good idea to check it too in case of a faulty RAM stick.
So I got it, opened it very carefully (perfect condition, no plastic broken on this one) and got its motherboard out. But before that, something retained my attention. I’m pretty sure that 630 does not have the little hole made to let PCI card bracket stick out.
I though I was wrong, nevermind.
So, once the mb out, I took one RAM stick … and while I was thinking « but where is the 68LC040 », I saw a chip marked with XPC603.

Then, close to it was a strange stick (to me). I thought « this should be the ROM or a cache stick » … and I saw chips on it marked as « Intel » and « Flash ».


I took it out and checked the other side and now, I need you to tell me what exactly is this stick.


So I have a 630 from my father’s laboratory which contains a 6200 motherboard. Never knew that ! And I was he’s referee when he needed to buy computers so I’m lost about this one’s history.