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LC 475: my first '040
Posted by: dzog on 2020-04-23 13:12:37 I've been enthusing about and (off-and-on) collecting Macs since my first-ever computer (Performa 550), and have managed to never own an '040 - until now! I was stoked to find this 475, particularly with the rarer old-style enclosure as I am quite partial to auto-inject floppy drives. This was a fairly blind (no shots of inside or operation) eBay lot along with a less-exciting-to-me LC III (already have one); the seller accepted a good offer and the machines fortunately survived the trip from Canada to the U.S. The case is intact, though not the cleanest... ...but, hooray, the inside is beautiful! The Asante NIC is a nice plus, too. Will need a recap as they all do - high time for me to learn this - but no super obvious leakage and it turns on nicely with a chime and video. Came with original (unexploded) battery installed and no HDD - nothing else stripped. Here's hoping at least one of those VRAM chips is a 512K, but not holding my breath. 🙂 The sticker label is interesting. Certainly looks official and Apple Garamond and all but not quite applied straight 🙂. Can't help but wonder if there's anything silkscreened underneath it and how it came to be. Once the floppy drive is cleaned out and re-lubed, this may become my primary floppy-making and archiving station. (Currently using an SE FDHD with a zip drive for this, which doesn't do too badly!) Excited to get 7.1+enabler on it and experience that '040 speed - the fastest 68K macs I've owned have been 33MHz '030s. Though I certainly lusted after my neighbors' 575 back in the day 😀
Posted by: Crutch on 2020-04-23 19:09:40 The LC 475 never came in that snow white box. That’s an LC III someone stuck a Q605 mobo into and added a sticker, I’m pretty sure?
Posted by: dzog on 2020-04-23 19:51:49 The LC 475 never came in that snow white box. That’s an LC III someone stuck a Q605 mobo into and added a sticker, I’m pretty sure? Could be! I'm interested in trying to find out. Here's the sticker on the bottom: And here's the serial: The M1476 matches LC 475/Quadra 605. The serial number seems bunk trying to run it through the decoders I'm finding - anyone have an insight? The power supply is different than the TDK ones in my LCIIIs. It interestingly has less rating on the 5v (3.25A vs 3.75A) and 12v (0.75A vs 0.78A) vs the LCIII's and a different model/part number (699-0153 vs 614-0003). Not sure if that's normal for a 475 or not. The floppy is the fairly standard-seeming MP-F75W-11G. Here's the full bottom case:
Posted by: maceffects on 2020-04-23 21:52:24 Occasionally these come up, I don’t recall the story but I’ve seen several with this sticker applied. No idea the story though. Perhaps Apple offered an upgrade program or used remaining cases in new production(Apple wouldn’t do that now).
Posted by: JRL on 2020-04-24 01:51:42 Nice score! Very partial to the 475. From my understanding this is an official upgrade, years ago I saw an image of a Performa 405 with the exact same LC 475 sticker (not applied over the original model name)
Posted by: Crutch on 2020-04-24 03:56:34 It would be fun to know what’s under that case front sticker 🙂
Posted by: Scott Baret on 2020-04-24 04:06:05 I believe this is an LC II originally based on the serial. All internals of the II, III, and 475 are swappable.
Posted by: slomacuser on 2020-04-24 05:34:00 There were silkscreened 475 lcs in old style case too
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2020-04-24 08:50:58 It would be fun to know what’s under that case front sticker 🙂 Yeah. I wonder if the sticker was part of the Apple upgrade kit? Definitely a find if so, dzog. If I haven't done so already, this is my welcome aboard greet.
Posted by: Crutch on 2020-04-24 19:28:49 There were silkscreened 475 lcs in old style case tooView attachment 33068 Wow thanks. I had no idea! I stand corrected.
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