That's a really good writeup on the LC series, Scott, thanks for that. In Australia at least though, the LC475/575/630 were sold directly to consumers.

How to test the power supply: 1. Turn on the Mac IIfx. 2. Set your volt meter to 20V range DC 3. Touch the black probe to a pin of the power supply connector that is connecte…

All models with "LC" in their name were popular in schools. In fact, the LC line became education-only after some time. I believe the original LCIII (not LCIII+) was the last LC so…

2. I also tried to boot from the hard drive the was in my SE (it had System 6.0. 8) , also a no go. I didn't even hear it spin. Click to expand... AHA! Your +12V is bad! We no…

Ok got some testing done, not good news. 1. AfterMAc's drive is good (tested on my SE), but the IIfx just gives me a disk with an X when I plug it in and try to boot from a disk (…

The 68060 didn't scale well, either. The fastest versions lack the MMU, FPU, or both. Too many transistors for a wafer that size back then. The fastest 060's required separate chip…

Ooo... just sent an email. I work in Ann Arbor.

For anyone interested here's a link to a Lemswap post for a free 128K Mac, upgraded to a 512K. NOT my sale. http://groups.google.com/group/lemswap/browse_thread/thread/4e81c78c9e…

Actually I swapped the chips out of a dead Superdrive unit so it should function as a 1.44MB drive. Tempest Click to expand... Even better!

Actually I swapped the chips out of a dead Superdrive unit so it should function as a 1.44MB drive. Tempest

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I think it would be more interesting to convert it to USB (same thing, just new chip which can be found pretty much everywhere) course I think old keyboards on new systems are jus…

I'll crack open my spare SE tonight. Not only does it have two floppy bays (which means I won't have to take the other one out), it also has a good working HD installed. I can kil…

Notes towards that approach can be found here and here

I'll crack open my spare SE tonight. Not only does it have two floppy bays (which means I won't have to take the other one out), it also has a good working HD installed. I can ki…

My guess at this point would be a lack of power to the drive. You should be able to hear it do *something*. Click to expand... The drive must be receiving +5V because of the X …

Sorry for the lag, I was away from my workstations this weekend. The second image you posted, Tron, works fine. Here are the numbers: CINEBENCH 2003 v1 **************************…

Right, the Blueberry is finished, with 10.4.11 on a 10gb hard drive and the USB wifi dongle. Taking apart and upgrading etc took far less time than before, just a couple of hours..…

You sometimes find those oddball clones on the European ebay sites, because most of them were sold there. I have yet to find a Maxxboxx for sale,though, and I want one.

If System 7 had been on the market for 2 years by the time the LCIII was released, then it's not surprising that you can't run System 6 on it. You can't downgrade a system to a ver…

The 68060 didn't scale well, either. The fastest versions lack the MMU, FPU, or both. Too many transistors for a wafer that size back then. The fastest 060's required separate chip…

Dennis, to answer a couple of your questions, yes the drive is auto-inject, but it's not necessarily known working. It was working when it was pulled quite a while ago, but I did n…

If AfterMac's spare drive hooked up I now get a disk with a red X through it. Click to expand... I assume the X appears red because of your unusual monitor setup. In actuality…

If AfterMac's spare drive hooked up I now get a disk with a red X through it. The drive never actually tries to read the disk though (no noise) and I know the disk is good anyway.…

Why does it have two batteries? Click to expand... http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/images/macIIfxsch.GIF Each battery is 3.6V. I'm not exactly sure from just glancing why t…