A pair of LC's...... — #7

Post #7 by Mike Richardson

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 - 23:42
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/a-pair-of-lcs.12479/

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Normally I hate when people say what I'm about to say, but...
... isn't it interesting how these 15-year old Macs, which were pretty much bottom-of-the-line even when they were current models, last forever and almost never break? I mean, really, I've had at least 20 LC-series machines come through my house over the years, and aside from a few dead PRAM batteries and one dead hard drive, I've never had a single problem with any of them.

Even old Color Classics and AIO LCs seem to last much longer than, say, iMac G3s.

Thoughts?

M

Going forward from now, capacitor plague will start claiming most of the old LCs. Almost every LC board I see (pizza box or AIO) has at least started to leak capacitor fluid.

I also deal in a lot of iMac G3s. Most common problem seems to be the hard drive. I have one here where some kids literally bored out the two USB ports so now you can't plug in anything USB; the motherboard is basically ruined, unless I can somehow fashion on new USB ports.