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Use for an LC520?
Posted by: uniserver on 2015-03-01 10:38:38
Also putting in at least a lc520 mb in a cc does entitle you to one more slight resolution bump, it's a little one pretty sure it's 640x400.

Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-03-01 11:21:53
And at this point...is anyone using a CC as their daily driver? 😀

Posted by: uniserver on 2015-03-01 11:41:34
only the most hard-core.   🙂

Posted by: Scott Baret on 2015-03-01 16:20:34
Stock CC? I'm sure I could as long as I've got the iPhone nearby to use online.

Posted by: techknight on 2015-03-01 16:30:09
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. 

Posted by: Hardcore SysOp on 2015-03-17 16:41:02
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. 😛

Posted by: uniserver on 2015-03-17 17:06:26
well what can i say, GUAM is like another planet 🙂

Posted by: Hardcore SysOp on 2015-03-17 17:10:23
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! 😛

Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-03-17 17:10:49
I don't even have a land line. :lol:

Posted by: Hardcore SysOp on 2015-03-17 17:14:36
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! 🙂

Posted by: uniserver on 2015-03-17 17:29:29
do you know the guy that is also from GUAM and sells mac stuff on flea bay?

Posted by: Hardcore SysOp on 2015-03-17 17:52:31
Well, there are over 165,000 people on this island, so . . .

Besides, I don't use Ebay. 🙂

Posted by: uniserver on 2015-03-17 18:24:31
http://www.ebay.com/usr/sparkerm?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

this guy

looks like he is selling a ZOOM 56k modem too!

Posted by: uniserver on 2015-03-17 18:27:02
His name is Stanley McKinnon out of 165,000 people,  how many are Mac Freaks?

Posted by: techknight on 2015-03-17 19:37:31
As much as I like vintage hardware, I dont think I will EVER go back to a modem... 

Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-03-17 20:11:46
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.

Posted by: Hardcore SysOp on 2015-03-18 00:48:16
His name is Stanley McKinnon out of 165,000 people,  how many are Mac Freaks?
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.

Posted by: Hardcore SysOp on 2015-03-18 00:54:37
As much as I like vintage hardware, I dont think I will EVER go back to a modem... 
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. 🙂

Posted by: techknight on 2015-03-18 09:47:56
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.

Posted by: Hardcore SysOp on 2015-03-18 09:55:04
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?  :🙂

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