Even the transplant of the LC-575 mainboard into the CC
offers quite a big speed boost since it has a 68040 running at 33mhz
and a true 32bit data path, vice the CC's normal 16bit data path. It
doesn't require any modification to use the 575 board either, as it's
a direct swap and just slides in. The only problem is that the
connectors no longer line up with the cutouts on the bolt-on rear
panel and that you have to modify the analog board or the CPU board
to run System 7.5 and above. It'll run 7.1 as-is just fine. The G3
mods use a later mainboard that requires all kinds of case mods,
including PSU mods. All in all, a pretty cool little system, and a
gorgeous screen. My favorite of my compact Macs.
Jeff
>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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Received on Tue Oct 24 2000 - 23:21:36 BST