15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
4:41 a.m.
On Dec 14, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
If I get it, I'll let you know. It'd be a load off everyone's mind if most
128MB SIMMs work (I haven't actually heard any reports of any not working, but maybe I
haven't been looking hard enough).
Well, it's subjective, I guess. I liked the flat profile better than the slanted one.
I like the simple slot of the older floppy drives a lot better than the manual inject
ones, though. The LC 475 case I have is a manual inject one, though it's so badly
damaged it's almost not worth keeping the top on anyway.
In any case,
it's only $20 with free shipping on Ebay, so it's not a very
expensive experiment.
I'd like to hear how (if?) it works, because more RAM in mine may make it
a good candidate for other tasks. The
LC475/Quadra 605 is probably my favorite machine from the '040 era (the
SE/30 and IIsi vie for my '030 affections). I wish I had one with a Q605
case, because I think it looks a bit nicer; as it is, the fellow who sold me
his 475 very nicely included an ImageWriter II, but didn't bother to pack it
very well.
Eeeek!
I am not as enamoured of the Q605 case, though. My Q605 got an LC III case,
which *almost* fits (the auto-inject floppy doesn't *quite* work because the
LC 3 top case floppy slot doesn't *quite* line up with the Q605 bottom). I am torn on '030s. The Color Classic is cute, but
wimpy (the Mystic update
helped mine tremendously). The IIsi was my first Mac I ever personally owned,
and I have a lot of nostalgia for it, but suffers from a dearth of expansion
options (at best you can cough up a single NuBus slot). So I'd have to say
my favourites are the SE/30, of course, but also the IIci, which is stackable,
expandable and plentiful.
Oh, right. The IIci is my favorite. Forgot about that. That said, doesn't the SE/30
have the same PDS slot as the IIsi? The manual for my SE Ethernet card has instructions
on installing the IIsi + SE/30 card as well.
- Dave