I have 2 LC3's One is the stock unit with FPU and ethernet, the other has a 68040 motherboard in it from a newer model because the old MB died because of bad caps. I recently got a supermac spigot LC and I am deciding which machine to stick it in (hate giving up ethernet). Sooner or later I will fix the dead MB.
The only reason I don't have a LC 1 or 2 is because I have not run into one locally yet, and do not plan on spending money to buy one on ebay. If anything a dual superdrive LC1 would be of some small interest, but anything pre LC3 is kind of crippled.
While quite a few people here used these old Macs when you were young (and have some sentimental attachment), I used nothing but PCs during the 90's and collect XT/286/386/486 because I wanted to relive those days with the hardware I could not afford at the time. For me the old macs are new since I never owned one or used on (other then a pizza box I had to get some excel files off of at work once before it got mothballed in the sales department). Mostly I like upgrading machines, if you havn't figured out yet I am a Nubus fanatic, house is full of cards and all my machines have their slots full.
If I had more space and a bunch more money I would collect the early compact 68020/030 CPU upgrade boards. So many different varieties were made and most are lost to the ages never to be seen again. I prefer keeping the stock motherboards in systems (unless its broken) and using machine specific upgrades then to hack up or swap motherboards. The only hack I have done was to unsolder the video plug on a IIci motherboard and stick it into a IIcx case since I didn't need built in video anyway and the case was handy.
The only reason I don't have a LC 1 or 2 is because I have not run into one locally yet, and do not plan on spending money to buy one on ebay. If anything a dual superdrive LC1 would be of some small interest, but anything pre LC3 is kind of crippled.
While quite a few people here used these old Macs when you were young (and have some sentimental attachment), I used nothing but PCs during the 90's and collect XT/286/386/486 because I wanted to relive those days with the hardware I could not afford at the time. For me the old macs are new since I never owned one or used on (other then a pizza box I had to get some excel files off of at work once before it got mothballed in the sales department). Mostly I like upgrading machines, if you havn't figured out yet I am a Nubus fanatic, house is full of cards and all my machines have their slots full.
If I had more space and a bunch more money I would collect the early compact 68020/030 CPU upgrade boards. So many different varieties were made and most are lost to the ages never to be seen again. I prefer keeping the stock motherboards in systems (unless its broken) and using machine specific upgrades then to hack up or swap motherboards. The only hack I have done was to unsolder the video plug on a IIci motherboard and stick it into a IIcx case since I didn't need built in video anyway and the case was handy.