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bigsadhu
Junior Member
Cayman Island
462 Posts |
 Posted - 07 Apr 2002 : 01:20:51
This has been a good week for LCs. To start off, I decided it was time to extend my Quadra collection. E-Bay was good enough to cough up a couple of 605s and a 610 for a total outlay of AU$22.10 (hopefully all en-route as we speak). Then today I was poking around in a grungy old junk shop and found a LC475 and a LC III for 5 bucks each... with the added bonus of the III having a PDS ethernet card. Coolo! Then to top it all off, just as I turned into my street, I saw the sleek, powerful lines of... could it be?... Yes! 2 LC IIs sitting, discarded, on the side of the road... along with a dinky little 12" Mac RGB display and a Syquest 88 in an external SCSI case. Unfortunately some psycho had ripped out the Hard drives and fans (and I think another PDS ethernet card)... but thankfully left in the RAM. So, from never having owned a pizza box to having six of the little beggars in a week. Not a bad effort I'd say! Cheers!
CC Current score: 1 Apple //e
2 LC IIs
1 LC III
1 LC 475
1 PB 520c
1 Quadra 700
1 Quadra 800
2 Powermac 6100s
1 Wallstreet Edited by - bigsadhu on 07 Apr 2002 02:41:28 |
raWr
Junior Member
Tuvalu
491 Posts |
Posted - 07 Apr 2002 : 02:21:42
wau!RAWR. Fleet Covert Ops Padlock Magnet |
Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 07 Apr 2002 : 10:08:34
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wau!
"wau!"
couldn't have said it better myself, congrats!
have fun!jt  ™
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 07 Apr 2002 : 11:52:45
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and a Syquest 88 in an external SCSI case
Woo-hoo! Another member of the Syquest 88 club! --------------------
keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 07 Apr 2002 : 23:44:06
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and a Syquest 88 in an external SCSI case
Woo-hoo! Another member of the Syquest 88 club! --------------------
keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™
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Yay!!!!! Death to the evil click-click!!!!! (Err...i mean...umm...Zip... ) -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 6!!! QFW68KPB Project SUCCESS!!!!! |
~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 08 Apr 2002 : 02:13:52
Heck, I got 5 once (Is, IIs and IIIs), with a Classic and 3 6100s for $30!~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
00014 Macs liberated |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 08 Apr 2002 : 04:50:54
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Heck, I got 5 once (Is, IIs and IIIs), with a Classic and 3 6100s for $30!~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
00014 Macs liberated
Lucky you. All my LCs seem to come in singles. Oh well, to get an LC475 one week, and a pretty nicely set up LC630 two weeks later both for free is a pretty schweet deal!  -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 6!!! QFW68KPB Project SUCCESS!!!!! |
FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 08 Apr 2002 : 09:44:40
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Yay!!!!! Death to the evil click-click!!!!! (Err...i mean...umm...Zip...)
The downside is that the 88mb is a 5.25" cartridge, as opposed to the 270mb Syquest which is pretty much the same size as a zip disk... edit: the 88mb is a bit on the loud side too... --------------------
keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 08 Apr 2002 : 18:19:41
But so much more... archaic!~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
00014 Macs liberated |
noirwest
New Member
USA
59 Posts |
Posted - 18 Apr 2002 : 22:17:53
My beloved University Surplus closed it's doors for the last time last Friday. All week long the sale prices just got better and better until come Friday it was 90% off. I now have six LC475's stacked up in here purchased for a whopping .25 per unit. None have drives, hard or floppy, but I have plenty of those. So far I've gotten chimes from all of them but no picture on a Macintosh Color Display that works with other machines. All LCs have the angled vram installed and two ram chips of indeterminate size, none have any cards. I have noticed that on just about every chip there is some kind of coating on the business end that is in the process of flaking off but am not sure what to do about that, if anything. I read where someone mentioned a fan, none have one installed but I'm wondering if they need one with a smaller, slower drive?
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bigsadhu
Junior Member
Cayman Island
462 Posts |
Posted - 18 Apr 2002 : 23:34:12
Gee, thats a pretty good deal!Lack of picture could be dead PRAM battery which seems to be endemic on LCs. Try turning one on, then when it chimes, turn it off then on again quickly. I think you'll find that the slanted chip is RAM and the two smaller vertical slots contain VRAM. On mine, the fan sits just about dead centre, and draws air in ( or blows it out???) through a grill in the bottom of the machine. Cheers!
CC Current score: 1 eMate 300
1 Apple //e
2 LC IIs
1 LC III
1 LC 475
1 Quadra 605
1 Quadra 700
1 Quadra 800
1 PB 520c
2 Powermac 6100s
1 PowerComputing Powerbase 240
1 Wallstreet
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noirwest
New Member
USA
59 Posts |
Posted - 18 Apr 2002 : 23:42:33
Rats. Then all have fans stripped from them as well, the grate is there in the center but that's all that's there. I thought LC's had two ram slots? I was just guessing, never owned one before. Looks like I need a schematic or some suitable subs for the missing fans. I installed a brand new (a pal bought it at an auction for ten bucks) 4gig Barracuda in a 6100 last week just because it was easy to get to, was going to format the drive, install an OS and a little software....got as far as installing the OS before it cooked itself inside the fan-less pizzabox! I don't want to have to tell THAT story ever again.
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 19 Apr 2002 : 05:57:43
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I thought LC's had two ram slots? I was just guessing, never owned one before.
Nope. That was the LC and LCII. The LCIII, LCIII+, LC475, AIOs (apart from the LC580), and 63x series all have one. -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 6!!! QFW68KPB Project SUCCESS!!!!! |
bigsadhu
Junior Member
Cayman Island
462 Posts |
Posted - 19 Apr 2002 : 08:50:35
Hey, I've got a question!Lowendmac et al. claim that the LC475 and Quadra 605 are the same animal. My examples look quite different - externally anyway, mobo seems similar. The Q605 has a deeper, more rounded front panel, side-to-side rather than front-to-back ventilation slots on the top, and four little "feets" instead of the single plastic bar of the 475. The 475 on the other hand, seems externally identical to the LC III, and very similar to the LC II (just a slight variation on the front panel). Wouldn't a different case design (and gestalt apparantly) merit a unique machine listing? Just wondering. Cheers!
CC Current score: 1 eMate 300
1 Apple //e
2 LC IIs
1 LC III
1 LC 475
1 Quadra 605
1 Quadra 700
1 Quadra 800
1 PB 520c
2 Powermac 6100s
1 PowerComputing Powerbase 240
1 Wallstreet
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 19 Apr 2002 : 08:53:17
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Wouldn't a different case design (and gestalt apparantly) merit a unique machine listing?
ther's just one jumper setting you need to change to fake the os out entirely! SAME mobo!jt ™. .
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 19 Apr 2002 : 08:55:53
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Hey, I've got a question!Lowendmac et al. claim that the LC475 and Quadra 605 are the same animal. My examples look quite different - externally anyway, mobo seems similar. The Q605 has a deeper, more rounded front panel, side-to-side rather than front-to-back ventilation slots on the top, and four little "feets" instead of the single plastic bar of the 475. The 475 on the other hand, seems externally identical to the LC III, and very similar to the LC II (just a slight variation on the front panel).
They're the same insofar as the motherboards went in either, and were the same (variations across one model do make the odd lil difference here & there). There is a lil jumper on the motherboard, J18 - right near the HD power plug, which changes gestalt between that of a 475, and a Q605. And yes they look different - and FEETS! dana (I'm marrying my Q605...) --
http://www.danamania.com/
hosted on 68k - LC630/40
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 19 Apr 2002 : 09:02:17
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And yes they look different - and FEETS!dana (I'm marrying my Q605...)
got PARTS! UMMM . . . ERR . . .  :bugeyes: *beats feets* jt ™. .
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