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Post #19 by LCGuy
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateFri, 24 Oct 2008 - 08:12
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/push-an-lc-to-the-max.15318/
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I think I found an LC 475 that will fulfill the need to mod out the pizza box form factor style machine. While swapping the motherboard out into the LC case would work it really becomes a totally different machine. I plan to keep the LC stock with memory maxed out and ethernet, no proc upgrade card. I want to preserve as much as possible the experience of using this computer as I did originally....and yes that includes the slowness and apps it could run. Hopefully it will stay running for years to come and can show others family etc the same machine that got it all started for me.
Technically this was not my first machine though, I had a Commodore 64 but at that time I was even younger and just knew how to start games....LOAD ,8,1 or something, wow I still remember. But I just don't have a passion for that or to write basic and play back from cassette tape.
Good on you...my first Mac was an LCIII, anyway, a few years ago I got the itch to upgrade the Hell out of it. However, I quickly got bored with it and put it completely back to stock - even going as far to remove the 16MB 72 pin SIMM that Dad paid $120 to have installed in 1996. Now its "not too stock, not too maxed out" with 20MB of RAM and a 250MB HDD, and runs System 7.1, and I wouldn't have it any other way. If it was the machine that got you into computers, and you've had it since new, IMHO, you want to preserve it and keep it as original as you can...but thats just me, and I'm a purist. ;)

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