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Differences between LCIIIs

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maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 15:22:02 One thing i've found quite interesting lately is the differences between some LCIIIs and possibly even LCIIs. All the LCIIIs i've seen other than mine have had an original LC style case with the auto-inject floppy drive. However, mine has an LC475 style case, with a manual inject floppy drive. I know its not an LCIII+, too, because the CPU is 25 Mhz. Also, I know that it hasn't had a mobo replacement, because it went straight to the local AppleCentre in that condition from the factory, because we got that Mac brand new back in 1993. Also, at the Shop and back at primary school, i also saw some LCIIs with LC475 style cases. Are these Macs with odd cases rare or anything? -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 18:11:25 Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that my LCIII's mfr date was October 1993, which, believe it or not, was the month that the LC475 came out. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 18:21:42 Heh....all my LCs are original equipment....the only things i've swapped around are h ard drives and floppy drives. (The PCs, however, are a different story....) Btw, I should mention that the box that my LCIII came in (remember, we got it brand new back in '93...my first Mac...), had a picture of an LCIII with the older LCII style case. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Edited by - maclover5 on 28 Mar 2003 18:21:59
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 18:30:33 I like all of the cases really. What cracks me up though, is that the LC630 STILL looks like a modern computer! Try saying that about some of the other "multimedia PCs" from 1994. HAR!™ -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 18:40:16 Yeah, although a 6400 would be much better. With a look rivalling the near sex appeal of the LC575 and a kick-butt sub, how can you go wrong? -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 18:51:33 Yeah. The 166 Mhz 603e isn't as fast as may be imagined when running new stuff (OS 9 on the PB1400 rings a bell), but it still does the job. Just be lucky you're on a Mac right now. I'm on a Dell here at uni because there isn't enough room on my desk for the iMac to coexist with this monstrousity. Next term i'll bring up a PB or something. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 19:23:23 Sounds like a friend i have with a 7200/75. She turns it on, goes to make a cup of tea while it boots up into OS 9, and then comes back and does what she needs to do. Its pretty solid, and although its not fast, it does the job. By the way, how does 8.6 perform on that beast? For some reason, 8.6 really doesn't like me, unless its running on my iMac, which is better off running OS X anyway. Thats the reason i have OS 9 running on the 1400. Its slow, but solid as a rock. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 28 Mar 2003 : 19:49:11 Yuck. I'm glad they eventually got the iMac though. By the way, 8.1 is a fairly nice system, its as solid as a rock on the LC475, LC630 and Quadra 700, and Dad runs it on the 1400 when he uses it, because he needs to print to the StyleWriter II, which doesn't work on anything newer than 8.1. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 30 Mar 2003 : 00:55:21 I personally like the LCII case the best of the LCs... I like the band, but I like it better the way it rips into the front, like on the LCII and the Color Classic!! Gee... iWish I had gotten a 68k NIB... Theyre selling those LC580s at shreve really cheap now! where's clinton! I know what I want! the LCIII mobo is bigger than the LCII I know that... making the case bigger, which is another reason I like the LCII best, it's front fits form with everythning the Quadra 605 has to win all the pizzaboxers though :) the Q610 is too wide for me. Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 30 Mar 2003 : 00:58:31 If you get a LCII case in pristine condition (like mine), then i'd say it would be preferable to the newer style. It just has this cool retromodern look about it. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 31 Mar 2003 : 06:18:57 Quite Odd... I've never truly experienced owning more than one LC series mac at a time... but I can say that I read in a book "Everything you wanted to know about the mac" ... and then some... that the LCIII mobo was a bit larger, but to upgrade your LCII to an LCIII you just popped everything from your LCII into your new LCIII case (even the PSU iThink) except the motherboard. This is quite a mystery. Maybe that was just the American LCIII? Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 09 Apr 2003 : 15:35:34 That doesn't sound like an LCIII to me. The PSU in the LCIII is exactly the same, and although its a couple of millimetres larger around the fan, it still fits in the same case. The only differernce is that you have to take the fan out when moving the logic board around. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 13 Apr 2003 : 02:05:18 the book I have basically says 'apple offered an LCIII upgrade kit for LCII and LC owners, you popped everything from your old case, except the motherboard into this new case and you had a brand new LCIII' - why would any computer company do that though? Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 13 Apr 2003 : 03:23:58 Yeah, they did have a mobo upgrade to LCIII. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 13 Apr 2003 : 17:46:44 hmm.... My computer company will never do that... ESPECIALLY on a consumer machine.... I can see MAYBE for schools and large corporations etc etc.... where they can just replace a thousand mobos at a time, and move the mobos from those machines down the chain etc etc and the motherboards that get popped out of the last run of machines are tossed and/or recycled... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
Brett B. Junior Member USA 105 Posts	Posted - 17 Apr 2003 : 21:47:52 my school has both models of 'IIIs. there's even some that look like they were meant to be 475's, but apple put a LCIII sticker on the front instead. i'm thinking that maybe it's a school thing because IBM did the same thing with some of their PS/2 models.
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 18 Apr 2003 : 01:07:29 GueLayven! possibly so, seeing as how all of us have been to, or are currently attending school Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide

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