Apple LC550

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Sat Mar 10 19:54:19 2001

> > Thanks for the quick reply. I do not have a system CD so that is out.
> >Although I have NO experience with Apples, my daughter has fallen in love
> >with this guy. I would like to get it back to a stock config with Netscape
> >so she can do her web thing. I woukd really like to put it on my UNIX
> >network behind my firewall. Is TCP/IP and ethernet a tall order for one
> >of these?
>
> It's a 33mhz 68030 so it is possible to use it for Netscape
> and such but she'll have to be patient with it. If you can find one,
> Earthlink had a CD with everything you need for an older Mac. You
> could just pick and choose the various items off of it. If you can't
> find it, let me know. My suggestion would be to use an older version
> of Netscape and something like Eudora Light 3.1 vice the current
> version. Both are a bit smaller and better geared towards the early
> system. Other suggestions would be to make sure it has a LC-PDS
> ethernet card, maxed RAM (36MB) and possibly even maxed VRAM (768k).
> There's only a single VRAM expansion SIMM socket, so it will be easy
> to see if it's maxed out. That'll give you 640 x 480 at 16bit.
>

Ouch, might as well pick up a Mac II Ci, and put a good video card
in it. Does that model take the same expansion cards as a II Ci?
Can you add a video card?

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Sat Mar 10 2001 - 19:54:19 GMT