Unless I amass a significant quantity of loose 575 motherboards, I will not sell them for Mystic upgrades. I will keep them as spares in case another 575 is broken. As it stands right now I have not had to part out any 575s. I have one loose board I got in a trade for some other stuff. My friend says the LC 575 with the bad screen may be irreparable in which case, it will be stripped for ALL usable parts and the only thing thrown away is the broken parts and the chassis metal. That's how I stripped down a 5400 with a broken tube which had apparently been dropped.

Anyone who would cannibalize a 575 just to upgrade the Color Classic is just foolish. I think that's what some of these other groups around here are doing, the other ones who buy up the old Macs at the auctions. They take out those motherboard and totally waste the rest of the Mac. That is a massive waste of resources. People buying the loose 575 boards contribute to that waste.

The Color Classic, while I'm sure is nice, is not worth destroying an entire other Mac just so it can have a 68040.