You can't use an LC580 board on an LC520 without performing some major major surgery - the LC520 (and LC550/575, and Colour Classic/Colour Classic II) use a different motherboard e…

Are you saying that i can install the LC580 board into my LC520 ?

If you find an LC 580, you can also watch TV on it.

yea thats a goldmine, too bad I am so far away

Woah.

Remember my post about 22 G3 iMacs? Turns out the seller has some older machines too. Besides the ones I've spoken for, they have: 3× 12" RGB monitor 1× LC Ⅲ 13× LC 580 3× 54…

Many thanks for your guidance and helpful instructions.

If you get an LC575 board, make sure you also get the back panel off an LC575, as the LC575 board has the Communications Slot, which the LC520 and 550 lack. While it should be poss…

Thanks for the clarification. Now, i guess, is the problem to find a working LC575 board . Perhaps someone in 68kMLA may have one .

Yes, it's a straight swap - double your speed in a matter of seconds. JB

Are you saying remove the LC520 board and just slide in the LC575 board ?

Upgrade to LC575 board with?

Upgrade LC520 accelerator with ?

Hi ! I found a Novy Systems accelerator to use in a Mac SE and It seems to work, however, to populate the ram slots on it, you have to move jumpers around and there are no indicat…

It is. And fellow 68kmla soldiers broke my hopes of easy language switching on Newtons a few weeks ago... :-/ By the way, judging by your use of an acute accent on your pseudo,…

There might. But AFAIK that's the way.

oh okay thats easy . I thought there was a difference in serial number or something. Thank you!

Well, you tell by whichever language it's using. English= USA and German=German

Hello all, Tomorrow I receive my first Newton, a MessagePad 2000, but how do I know whether I have a German or US version of it? Thanks in advance

Welcome aboard! I'm sure you will find these forums useful for anything and everything pertaining to 68K Macs. There is a reason your LCIII runs at 33MHz. There was a later revisio…

I just assumed they did - as I said, when I was on dialup, the 68kMLA loaded faster than most other sites, and I assumed it was because it was cached better than most other sites, …

Depending on how often you visit the forums, its likely cached a lot more than Google is. Click to expand... phpBB pages don't cache.

Right now, for me, using Safari 4 in OS X... http://www.google.com loads six files. One is a 9.6 KB main HTML, then there are the 8.4 KB and 5.3 KB images, and finally a 51.9 KB …

It takes 2 seconds to load the reply page. (Actually 1.986)

Depending on how often you visit the forums, its likely cached a lot more than Google is. I noticed the exact same thing myself when I was on dialup, the 68kMLA loaded faster than …