supernova777 said:

this would be why i would consider getting a 68k cpu board to swap in.. then i would have a cheap + easier to find version of a color classic that runs with an IDE hard drive! (modern 80gb sata drive with IDE converter board) .. albeit unable to run system 6.. but probably can run system 7.1

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A 68K board swap would never work on the 5200. The 5200 is PowerPC, used (I believe) an IDE hard drive and not a SCSI hard drive and the edge combs do not match between the PowerPC and the 68K. When I was teaching/teching at schools in NYC, I would recycle a dead machine's parts, and in the case of the LC 500 series, I took working logic boards from units with monitor issues and get a working machine from the parts. The same with the LC/Perform 5000 series in swapping out boards. But in the few attempts I tried, the 500 board would not fit in a 5000 case and the 5000 board would not work in the 500 case. Things do not line up or fit internally.