Apple LC550

From: Brian Roth <broth_at_heathers.stdio.com>
Date: Sun Mar 11 08:02:06 2001

After further inspection in the pile I found a couple of LC575's, some
Centris box's, and a couple of power PC's 6100/60. Looks like the 575's
have ethernet as well. How well do these machines run NetBSD?

Brian.




Jeff Hellige wrote:

> >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?
>
> It's an all-in-one Mac with a single LC-PDS slot. The monitor is a
> 14" I believe. If a LC-PDS graphics card were used, he'd have to
> give up the ethernet. To speed it up, it should be possible to put a
> LC-575 mainboard with a 33mhz 68040 into it though. If I remember
> correctly the whole LC-500 series uses the same mainboard style,
> which is the same as the Color Classic and Color Classic II. All in
> all, I'd say it's a nice little system for a beginner or just light
> use. I've tried Netscape on my stock Color Classic and it worked,
> but it wasn't very fast. I'm in the middle of putting a LC-575
> mainboard into it.
>
> Jeff
>
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Received on Sun Mar 11 2001 - 08:02:06 GMT

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