I guess maybe you didn't follow the Web links.
These guys have upgraded the Color Classic to Power
Mac G3 CPUs and lots of bells and whistles.
If you have access to the New York Times, see the
Thursday, August 24, 2000 national edition page D8
for an article entitled: "A Long-Discontinued
Macintosh Still Thrills Collectors to the Core."
Not quite classic by this mailing list standards,
but, as I said, truly CLASSIC.
Dave
P.S. You probably want to volunteer to "retire" those
Color Classics from work into your collection.
Larry Anderson wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:01:37 -0700
> > From: "David C. Jenner" <djenner_at_halcyon.com>
> > Subject: Re: old MAC's
> >
> > Some of these aren't truly "classic" yet (<10 years),
> > but it's looking like the Color Classic is really a
> > CLASSIC. If you want to really get carried away with
> > older Macs, see about the Color Classic at
> > http://home.hkstar.com/~patrickn/colorclassic/
> >
> > Dave
>
> We have a couple Color Classics at work a max of 10 megs RAM and 16mghz
> speed makes it mighty slow (even with the MicroMac Accelerators)...
>
> If you are looking for something "compact" and to "play" with the Macs I
> would look out for:
>
> SE SuperDrive (able to use the HD disks, also can support dual drives
> and hard drive)
> SE/30 (first 68030 compact mac, some people consider thse good to have
> around for net stuff.)
> Classic II (more limited than the SE-30 but faster than other compact macs)
> IIci (the cx and si are slower, also note the IIci is the last Mac
> capable of running System 6)
> IIfx (big, fast, but uses weird RAMs)
> LC-III
> Quadra 605/LC475 (no MMU but 25mghz speed, good kids internet box)
> 631-CD (last of the 68040s, but a good one - my first Mac - at home)
> Macs in the 1000s are PowerMacs. Note some caveats on those:
> * 61xx (uses a non-standard video connector!)
> * 7100 (uses a non-standard video connector & NEEDS a standard video
> card doe to electronic design)
>
> Heck just check out http://www.lowendmac.com/ Low end Mac is a great
> site for tips and tidbits on the older macs. Though some of their "Road
> Apples" are computers I like.
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