Use for an LC520?
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And at this point...is anyone using a CC as their daily driver? 
Stock CC? I'm sure I could as long as I've got the iPhone nearby to use online.
my CC has the 550 board. Only because the machine it came out of had a bad CRT.
that would be the only case I would ever swap one over.
One of the audio jacks, and its associated ferrite filter bead had been ripped off. probably from someone tripping over a cord. But aside from that, it works along with the internal sound at least.
that would be the only case I would ever swap one over.
One of the audio jacks, and its associated ferrite filter bead had been ripped off. probably from someone tripping over a cord. But aside from that, it works along with the internal sound at least.
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GUYS, Guys, guys . . . 
There is only one thing that you can do with an LC520, and it is the same thing that I did with my very first computer -- and LC III -- beginning back in 1993-1994.
And what is that you may wonder? Well, look at my signature.
If you go to that URL, and read everything there, you will soon be inspired to set up your very own Macintosh-based Hermes II BBS, just like me!
Macintosh BBSing lives . . . even if I am the last Macintosh SysOp standing.
There is only one thing that you can do with an LC520, and it is the same thing that I did with my very first computer -- and LC III -- beginning back in 1993-1994.
And what is that you may wonder? Well, look at my signature.
If you go to that URL, and read everything there, you will soon be inspired to set up your very own Macintosh-based Hermes II BBS, just like me!
Macintosh BBSing lives . . . even if I am the last Macintosh SysOp standing.
No, no! You've got that backwards. The mainland USA is like another planet. They've got the walking dead, all kinds of aliens -- at least some people say -- alligators in big city sewers, strange sightings in the sky, and I don't know what else. Not to mention that some of the people there are as crazy as crazy can be!
We's all very sane out here, and we live in real houses too!
We's all very sane out here, and we live in real houses too!
I don't even have a land line. :lol:
I do, but I rarely use it, because i have no friends, and I am anti-social . . . unless I am on the web, of course. And I haven't written a real letter and sent it in the regular old mail in many years. If you don't know how to contact me online, tough beans!
Well, there are over 165,000 people on this island, so . . .
Besides, I don't use Ebay.
Besides, I don't use Ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/usr/sparkerm?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
this guy
looks like he is selling a ZOOM 56k modem too!
this guy
looks like he is selling a ZOOM 56k modem too!
As much as I like vintage hardware, I dont think I will EVER go back to a modem...
The only reason I could see doing it would be if I somehow ended up with a Sega Saturn Netlink kit, and used it to play one of the online games (it's direct-dial, no servers needed). But I really don't see that happening.
I honestly have no idea. I used to belong to the local MUG, but that was, my gosh, over twenty years ago. I am sure that we are in the minority here, as we are everywhere else.
I don't know if you've read the Armageddon BBS home page yet, but one thing I mention in there is the "fabulous" speed I acquired back in the modem BBSing days. I started out with a borrowed 300 - 1200 baud Apple modem.
The neat thing is, with the introduction of telnet capabilties in BBS software -- such as in what I use, Hermes II -- we can still enjoy the "good old days" of BBSing without the snail-paced speeds of old modems.
To add to that, with emulators such as Basilisk II and SheepShaver -- I have both set up -- which emulate the Mac Classic environment, you can run your Old School BBS on the latest Macintosh computers, as I do, and it runs very fast. It's very nice indeed.
When I got acquainted with BBS systems, it was on an IBM PS/2 Model 30 286. With a Hayes 2400 baud modem on Telix... This was in early 96 or so, well into the WWW era. Even then BBS lists were still hung up in grocery stores.
I remember though, all I did was download DOS games and utilities. I would never download anything over 1 meg because it took too long.
I ended up catching some sort of dos virus on a BBS I went to, which led to the ultimate demise of my PS/2 as my boot disk was bad.
From then I moved onto a 386 with aol 3 and a 14.4k modem. Slowww web browsing I tell you that much.
I remember though, all I did was download DOS games and utilities. I would never download anything over 1 meg because it took too long.
I ended up catching some sort of dos virus on a BBS I went to, which led to the ultimate demise of my PS/2 as my boot disk was bad.
From then I moved onto a 386 with aol 3 and a 14.4k modem. Slowww web browsing I tell you that much.
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Slow, yes, but you say slow from looking at it from a modern perspective.
As I have mentioned before, back then, our "slow" looked "fast" to us, because we had nothing else with which to compare it.
It is only now that we have true high-speed connections that we realize how slow things were back then.
But again, given the technology that was available to the public back then, it was not slow. We just learned to have patience.
Patience today? What's that? :
As I have mentioned before, back then, our "slow" looked "fast" to us, because we had nothing else with which to compare it.
It is only now that we have true high-speed connections that we realize how slow things were back then.
But again, given the technology that was available to the public back then, it was not slow. We just learned to have patience.
Patience today? What's that? :
