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Classic with a surprise inside
Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2016-11-07 06:22:55
During another episode of boredom-busting induced eBay browsing I happened upon an inexpensive but very well used Classic.  It looks like at some point it had one of those paper holders attached to the left side and even the seller stated it likely needed a cap job but I figured I'd toss in a bid and see what happens.  Surprisingly enough I won it and a few days later the machine showed up and my gamble had paid off because this little guy was inside:

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The machine had a MicroMac Performer upgrade with FPU so after moving this rather annoying guy over to my Classic

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I now have a Classic with a 16MHz 68030 and FPU.  It doesn't feel night and day faster than the stock Classic but I figure that's more down to the bus limits than anything else.  Probably the coolest thing is the icon it has on startup, which I'll have to take a video of because describing what it does just doesn't cut it.
Posted by: bibilit on 2016-11-07 06:49:28
Great expecting pictures.
Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2016-11-08 04:53:03
Video of the extension on startup (never mind the extension, VLC will play it)

http://www.filedropper.com/20161108053944001j

Or if you can't pull a 14MB file, I made a GIF as well.  Lesser quality but you still get the picture.

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I should have benchmarked the machine before installing the accelerator, but oh well.

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Posted by: MJ313 on 2016-11-08 05:12:40
That extension loading is awesome. hah!
Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2016-11-08 05:38:28
Congrats! That's a nifty little accelerator your got there!

I know you can create startup screens, but I don't know if you can animate those. That'd be cool!
Posted by: Scott Squires on 2016-11-08 09:54:36
Nice find, EvilCapitalist!
Posted by: CharlieFrown on 2016-11-08 12:22:06
excellent find! 
Posted by: joethezombie on 2016-11-08 13:03:42
That's super neat! And the extension is quite unique. I'll bet it gives that machine quite the physique. probably really takes off on its feet.
Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2016-11-08 13:32:20
The machine definitely feels faster with things in the Finder like pulling down menus, redrawing screens, and browsing folders.  I haven't loaded much yet on the Classic as far as applications go so I can't say how much faster those are but it feels only slightly slower than my SE/30.
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