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Evie's Conquests

Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-02-15 15:10:25 I bet, I already have one tray-load SCSI CD drive that doesn't work and I bet I'll only end up with more over time...

Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-03-31 19:49:13 I got this beautiful Color Classic in today! It works great and even has a recapped logic board! Some of the solder joints are a bit...iffy and I should probably learn soldering so I can touch them up, but having an already recapped logic board saves me a lot of money I can put towards something more fun like a SCSI2SD or an accelerator.

Posted by: olePigeon on 2017-03-31 20:39:49 LC 575 motherboard would likely be cheaper than an accelerator.

Posted by: CC_333 on 2017-03-31 21:11:49 Or an LC 520 or 550 board. They're '030 based, but they are drop in replacements for the stock board (no modifications needed) and upgrade the machine to Colour Classic II standards. The 575 needs some mods to the wiring harness I think. It can be done, but a 520/550 is much easier I think. c

Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-03-31 21:21:35 I mean, I would rather have the 550 board too (the 550 board has a FPU socket, yeah?) but I've only found one on eBay so far so I guess I'll try LEM Swap. For now I'd like to max the RAM and VRAM and add a FPU to the original logic board and maybe get an Ethernet card.

Posted by: Cory5412 on 2017-04-03 10:04:25 I believe the 575 will also drop in with no modification. A 580 or 630 board (and as such: 5000/6000 series powermac/performa boards) needs a modified or an entirely new wiring hardness. I wouldn't worry too much about the FPU. It won't help in day to day stuff on a vintage Mac. I've had some with them and some without them and it hasn't made a difference to me unless I'm doing a lot of heavy-for-the-time graphics processing.

Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2017-04-03 10:16:01 The 520/550 boards are pure drop in, in that the system software installer will recognize the machine as a Performa 275 straightaway.  The 575 board works without hardware modification but you have to make some adjustments with ResEdit, otherwise the machine won't boot.

Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-04-03 10:47:03 I got a 550 board coming in from a guy on LEM Swap, as well as 8MB of RAM to max out the original board and a LC PDS Ethernet card for networking. I'm thinking of upgrading to 7.6.1 from 7.5.5 when I get the new board, but if I ever put in the original board again it will probably be pretty sluggish on 10MB of RAM...

Posted by: Unknown_K on 2017-04-03 12:27:00 You could keep the stock board and get a Sonnet Presto Plus.

Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-04-03 12:44:56 Well, if I see one and it's not hundreds of dollars I will probably get it. But $25 for a 550 board is a much cheaper upgrade.

Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2017-04-03 13:11:11 Not to mention, you'll definitely feel the difference going from the stock board to CCII speeds.  The Presto Plus is a great upgrade on top of that board but given that they're near unobtanium I'd just enjoy what you've got.

Posted by: Unknown_K on 2017-04-03 13:19:31 How much was the CC? I sold a 575 motherboard last year to somebody who put it in a CC I think.

Posted by: CC_333 on 2017-04-03 13:25:48 Huh, OK. I must've been thinking 580/630, then. But one thing is certain: the 575 is not a plug 'n play matter like the 550. That being said, I upgraded mine, and it's much better (once I got the OS to work; it didn't have the proper enablers for the new board, and the old board was stuck at a grey screen, so I couldn't fix it without an external boot disk). c

Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-04-03 13:30:29 @Unknown K: It was...a lot. Not sure I want to admit how much, just that it was under my $300 budget.

Posted by: Unknown_K on 2017-04-03 13:32:35 Figured it wasn't cheap, which is why I never bothered to buy one at ebay pricing.

Posted by: macosten on 2017-04-03 13:58:38 Hmmm.... $25 for the 550 board, you say? I might just have to get one myself, then... damn. :O Perhaps you got lucky, but I dunno. Side note: I have 7.6.1 on my stock (recapped) CC board with 10MB of RAM. And, I mean... it works, though it's not fast thanks to the CC being slow. It's not unbearable, though (but then again it has a SCSI2SD in it, so disk slowness is eliminated in mine). I'd say go for it.

Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-04-03 15:34:10 SCSI2SD is a future goal for the CC, especially since this one has a really small hard disk for some reason. I wanted the cheaper upgrades first.

Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-05-11 16:27:44 It's not a Mac but I still think it's pretty cool... http://i.imgur.com/SirUlZg.jpg http://i.imgur.com/CG16zac.jpg Gonna need some work though.

Posted by: Johnnya101 on 2017-05-11 17:32:36 Cool I was looking at that! TRS-80 III or IV?

Posted by: Themk on 2017-05-11 17:34:27 It is a four, you can tell by zooming in on the photo and reading the badge. [😉] ]'> BTW, TRS-80s are fun to play around with. Lots of cool things to do.

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