I advise anyone with a nice mint CC to upgrade it to an LC575 motherboard by doing the resistor soldering on the back of the LC575 board. Keep the stock CC board in the closet.
That makes it much (!) more useful, while still maintaining 100% of whatever historical/collector value it may have ever had.
If you've got a real junker, then by all means, go crazy and mod it.
I've got an awesome Takky with two PCI slots, IR sensor, ZIP drive, and other goodies, and I regret building it instead of a mystic. My only consolations are that it's really awful nasty yellow, and I didn't trash the analogue board: I sold it to another CC collector in need.
That makes it much (!) more useful, while still maintaining 100% of whatever historical/collector value it may have ever had.
If you've got a real junker, then by all means, go crazy and mod it.
I've got an awesome Takky with two PCI slots, IR sensor, ZIP drive, and other goodies, and I regret building it instead of a mystic. My only consolations are that it's really awful nasty yellow, and I didn't trash the analogue board: I sold it to another CC collector in need.