Some pics of the machine for you guys.
Here she is the day I brought her home. I got her for $22 including the StyleWriter II.
The day after I brought her home, she refused to boot. I'm not sure why she worked perfectly the day I brought her home and then refused to start the next day but hey, what do you expect from a 23-year-old machine? I washed the motherboard with Simple Green and rinsed with distilled water:
I haven't had any boot failures since, and now the motherboard is minty fresh. I plan to replace those capacitors soon.
One of my favorite things about this machine is the caddy-load CD drive. My first computer was a Performa 6116CD when I was a kid, so I missed the era of caddy-loading drives by several years. The drive is currently working great, but I peeked inside the slot with a flashlight and saw a lot of surface-mount capacitors. Those will need to be replaced ASAP before they leak and ruin the drive. Here, I am loading a classic 90s album into my 90s computer:
And here she is, just chillin'. When I was a kid, I remember seeing a few LC5xx machines in the back of the computer lab at school. I thought they looked very cool, especially the QuickTime sticker under the CD drive. There was something very striking about the design of these to me even as a kid. I think these machines are a thing of beauty - I love the 90s curves and that vertically-flat Trinitron.
Here she is the day I brought her home. I got her for $22 including the StyleWriter II.
The day after I brought her home, she refused to boot. I'm not sure why she worked perfectly the day I brought her home and then refused to start the next day but hey, what do you expect from a 23-year-old machine? I washed the motherboard with Simple Green and rinsed with distilled water:
I haven't had any boot failures since, and now the motherboard is minty fresh. I plan to replace those capacitors soon.
One of my favorite things about this machine is the caddy-load CD drive. My first computer was a Performa 6116CD when I was a kid, so I missed the era of caddy-loading drives by several years. The drive is currently working great, but I peeked inside the slot with a flashlight and saw a lot of surface-mount capacitors. Those will need to be replaced ASAP before they leak and ruin the drive. Here, I am loading a classic 90s album into my 90s computer:
And here she is, just chillin'. When I was a kid, I remember seeing a few LC5xx machines in the back of the computer lab at school. I thought they looked very cool, especially the QuickTime sticker under the CD drive. There was something very striking about the design of these to me even as a kid. I think these machines are a thing of beauty - I love the 90s curves and that vertically-flat Trinitron.