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Posted by: CTB on 2024-01-17 02:27:42
Everything from LC to LC475 all had the screw. I do remember a batch of Performa 400's that were delivered without the screw. We had to send a screw to each school who requested them. |
Posted by: joshc on 2024-01-17 02:28:53
Thanks for your insight on this. Hopefully it clears up the mystery at least somewhat. |
Posted by: CTB on 2024-01-17 02:33:23
Keep in mind this was my experience with units coming from the Singapore factory. Things could have been very different for units coming out of the Cork factory. |
Posted by: joshc on 2024-01-17 02:51:06
Yeah, that’s fair. I expect there were variances. But… the whole LC series having screws makes sense given their target market of education. |
Posted by: Phipli on 2024-01-17 02:53:37
Thanks for your insight on this. Hopefully it clears up the mystery at least somewhat. Remember that (unlike here in the UK) "LC" was the education series in some regions, Performas sold to home users might have been sold without screws in some regions.
I guess basically we can't know for sure in all regions / markets.
But it sounds like they fitted a screw to all the educational units and with good reason! |
Posted by: joshc on 2024-01-17 03:04:55
Yep. We can’t know for sure unless someone was a fly on the wall in every Apple factory on every day of pizza box Mac production, in every country. 😅 |
Posted by: dougg3 on 2024-01-17 07:04:58
Everything from LC to LC475 all had the screw. Keep in mind this was my experience with units coming from the Singapore factory.
Thanks for the inside info! |
Posted by: croissantking on 2024-01-17 07:58:14
I’ve had ex school mice before where the mouse ball cover was glued on, presumably by the school to stop that from happening.
How were they supposed to clean the black gunk off the rollers if the ball cover was glued on? |
Posted by: Phipli on 2024-01-17 07:59:27
How were they supposed to clean the black gunk off the rollers if the ball cover was glued on? Lasers 🙂
Everything can be solved with lasers. |
Posted by: joshc on 2024-01-17 12:14:15
How were they supposed to clean the black gunk off the rollers if the ball cover was glued on? Good point, but my guess is they probably had so many mice / could get them cheap enough that they would just replace them if they became unusable. |
Posted by: CTB on 2024-01-20 14:07:39
Apple Service had a part number which was a bag of 100 mouse balls. |
Posted by: joshc on 2024-01-21 03:00:51
Apple Service had a part number which was a bag of 100 mouse balls. I love these little bits of knowledge that have been lost to time. Stuff like that is hard to know unless you were involved/familiar with it at the time. |
Posted by: Arbee on 2024-01-21 17:54:34
Yeah, that’s fair. I expect there were variances. But… the whole LC series having screws makes sense given their target market of education. Also the LC and LC II had the Control Panel disable jumper so schools could lock kids out of messing up the system settings. But that didn't last long as a feature and Cuda dropped it entirely (it was only possible on Egret-based machines, and not all of those). |
Posted by: mdeverhart on 2024-01-21 18:04:20
Also the LC and LC II had the Control Panel disable jumper so schools could lock kids out of messing up the system settings. Wait, really? I had no idea that was a thing! Which jumper is it? |
Posted by: Arbee on 2024-01-21 18:12:05
The jumper block is between the battery and the floppy connector, at least on the original LC. The pair of pins closest to the battery should be labeled "CPE", and jumping them should disable the Control Panel. |
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