And we have one more clean, perfectly functional Color Classic back in the world again after a solid night's work... This is the same machine that looked like it was pulled from a septic tank just yesterday. 
I ended up putting the better board out of the other machine into this, whilst carrying over the VRAM upgrade SIMM from the old board, meaning 16-bit colour for days. The 160Mb drive I tossed into my SE when the Miniscribe passed away got pulled back out and put into this where System 7.1 and that kind of capacity are a little more useful (as I want to put an Miniscribe or early Prodrive back into the SE anyway for authenticity). I also pulled a PDS ethernet card out of the cupboard and rehomed it inside the CC as well so might be able to get some rudimentary web connectivity just for funzies later down the track.
As it stands I'm having a phenomenally difficult time removing the hard drive from the other CC as every single pair of my longnose pliers has gone walkabouts. :-/ This is actually the reason why I ended up just assembling the filthy one as the first runner of the two... I had already removed the hard drive years ago and I had that hard drive still sitting round sled and all, so I simply swapped the sled onto the good drive and slid it in In any case the one with the faulty degauss is also full of dust... quite likely 18 years worth of it... So I will be giving it a thorough cleanup before I think about powering it on again.
I ended up putting the better board out of the other machine into this, whilst carrying over the VRAM upgrade SIMM from the old board, meaning 16-bit colour for days.
The 160Mb drive I tossed into my SE when the Miniscribe passed away got pulled back out and put into this where System 7.1 and that kind of capacity are a little more useful (as I want to put an Miniscribe or early Prodrive back into the SE anyway for authenticity). I also pulled a PDS ethernet card out of the cupboard and rehomed it inside the CC as well so might be able to get some rudimentary web connectivity just for funzies later down the track. As it stands I'm having a phenomenally difficult time removing the hard drive from the other CC as every single pair of my longnose pliers has gone walkabouts. :-/ This is actually the reason why I ended up just assembling the filthy one as the first runner of the two... I had already removed the hard drive years ago and I had that hard drive still sitting round sled and all, so I simply swapped the sled onto the good drive and slid it in
In any case the one with the faulty degauss is also full of dust... quite likely 18 years worth of it... So I will be giving it a thorough cleanup before I think about powering it on again.