15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
1:24 a.m.
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.
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