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LC575 with accessories
The front bezel is interesting, having the Snow White line right across the front following the floppy, more or less like a MacII, IIsi or an LCIII. The LC575, I had thought, was in the Espresso design language.
My LC575 is rather differently styled, like the Color Classic, LC475, Quadra 605, LC630, etc.
The bezel would have made it a good deal more expensive to upgrade to a CD back in the day, wouldn't it? Given the new emphasis on multimedia in the year of manufacture (when having a CD drive was a BIG THING), I would have thought that a CD-less LC575 would just have a plug in the CD hole, and be ready for the upgrade, in the way the CD-less LC630 did. Mind you, I suppose it could have taken two scsi hard drives, and still looked right, and that's something.
My LC575 is rather differently styled, like the Color Classic, LC475, Quadra 605, LC630, etc.
The bezel would have made it a good deal more expensive to upgrade to a CD back in the day, wouldn't it? Given the new emphasis on multimedia in the year of manufacture (when having a CD drive was a BIG THING), I would have thought that a CD-less LC575 would just have a plug in the CD hole, and be ready for the upgrade, in the way the CD-less LC630 did. Mind you, I suppose it could have taken two scsi hard drives, and still looked right, and that's something.
The ones without a CD-ROM seem to be less common. I'd keep it as-is, personally.
Interesting observation about the Snow White line. The CC had this line, but it's not too visible because of the buttons. There is no line on the CD-ROM equipped LC 5xx series, both tray-loaders and caddy-loaders. It's surprising that the computer would have a line like this, since none of the other Apple products from that period did--even the LCIII+ and LC475 were without this line. Perhaps it's to make this entry-level model look less powerful and more like the older LCs and Classics (and even the SE, which had the same lines)?
Interesting observation about the Snow White line. The CC had this line, but it's not too visible because of the buttons. There is no line on the CD-ROM equipped LC 5xx series, both tray-loaders and caddy-loaders. It's surprising that the computer would have a line like this, since none of the other Apple products from that period did--even the LCIII+ and LC475 were without this line. Perhaps it's to make this entry-level model look less powerful and more like the older LCs and Classics (and even the SE, which had the same lines)?
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On reflection, and on being reminded that the Color Classic has the Snow White line and represents early Espresso design language, the fact that an Espresso design should have the line is not so surprising....
Still, a bit of googling turns up at least one image of a CD-less LC550 that does not appear to have the line, though the resolution on that one is not so good as to make me certain of it.
On reflection, and on being reminded that the Color Classic has the Snow White line and represents early Espresso design language, the fact that an Espresso design should have the line is not so surprising....
Still, a bit of googling turns up at least one image of a CD-less LC550 that does not appear to have the line, though the resolution on that one is not so good as to make me certain of it.
There was also a school-exclusive stripped down LC II for a while, which had no hard drive. We had several of these where I went to school, all of which later received an LC III upgrade (and therefore, a hard drive--we used RAMDisk+ to load System 6 into memory and then ran our software from floppy on these LC IIs).
IIRC, those stripped LC2s were primarily sold as "cheap crack" for schools with large Apple II investments, as the ones I encountered were usually fitted with A2 emulation boards and booted up directly into the emulator (presumably on a boot floppy). This saved the cost of a hard disk and they could run their old software.
I imagine most of those stripper LC2s were eventually upgraded to 3s or Q605s at some point.
I imagine most of those stripper LC2s were eventually upgraded to 3s or Q605s at some point.
Come to think of it, the stripped LC IIs at my school all had Apple IIe cards. Ours had the floppies with 6.0.8 and the IIe card software, although we only used that when we used the IIe cards. We usually used the RAMDisk+ equipped floppies for Mac software and ran programs like Number Munchers and Kid Pix from 1.4MB floppies (all the files would fit on one). The floppies had either 6.0.7 or 6.0.8 on them. All of our IIe-card equipped, hard drive-less LC IIs were equipped with Apple 5.25" Drives.