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My Color Classic

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AppleIIfan

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After years of searching I found a Color Classic, It works perfect. I haven't done much with it but so far its going to have some neat upgrades

Ill be adding an 040 upgrade, AppleDesign Powered Speakers and an External CD-ROM drive, The 040 upgrade will take my PDS Slot so it'll only be connected via LocalTalk. Should be a nice set up.. 040 power in a small quiet package
 
You must live out in the middle of nowhere if you had trouble getting a Color Classic.

In the last two years, I've given away about a dozen including one that was still factory sealed.
 
Druid6900 said:
You must live out in the middle of nowhere if you had trouble getting a Color Classic.

In the last two years, I've given away about a dozen including one that was still factory sealed.
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Lets just say Michigan doesn't have alot of them :p, I live near a major city too
 
Well I got the rest of my goodies for mine today.. My Apple CD600E and AppleDesign Powered Speakers for it. Should be a nice looking set up when its done
 
And heres my CC setup

Specs are as follows
8MB RAM/80MB Hard Drive
Sonnet Presto 040 Upgrade
AppleDesign Powered Speakers II
Apple External CD600E

Can you imagine what this would have cost new




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Nope System 7.1.1 Pro.. OS 8 in 8MB RAM would be painful. OS 8.5 began the transition to PPC Only OS
 
AppleIIfan said:
Nope System 7.1.1 Pro.. OS 8 in 8MB RAM would be painful. OS 8.5 began the transition to PPC Only OS
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Since you plan on filling the PDS slot with CPU upgrade, you could always go with an "Asante EN/SC" SCSI-Ethernet adapter if you wanted Ethernet, unless you plan on upgrading ram and upgrading to OS8, I am pretty sure support for the EN/SC ended with about OS7.5.
 
Yeah, Ive been thinking that.. Might as well complete the set.. I need to give the CC a dip, but Honestly the slight yellow gives it patina. I think ill load it up with a few basic apps.. If it comes to where I need internet connectivity Ill just go ahead and pop the 040 upgrade out and put in the LC ethernet card.
 
You could always go with a Performa 575 motherboard upgrade too, 040 plus PDS and COMM slots both, Mac addicts have used the 575 board in CCs for 040 upgrades for a long time. Some have gone as far as G3's in CCs but that requires LOTS of modifications to the CC, the 575 upgrade is pretty much plug and play.
 
Ah, I plan to leave it pretty much stock.. All my compacts are pretty much stock.. I have spares to dink with and upgrade and such.
 
http://olepigeon.trolans.net/ccb

My upgraded Color Classic. I made a custom rear panel so it'd fit the new motherboard. I also did the hires 640x480 hack. Now my Color Classic has a 33 MHz 68040, COMM slot ethernet card, and 136 MBs of RAM. :)

I just found a 10" color CRT that's capable of 800x600. At some point if I drum up the courage, I may attempt a transplant for a full 800x600 Color Classic.

Yeah, I know, I need to Retr0bright it. I'll get there. I have a bunch of parts I need to clean up.
 
Druid6900 said:
Yeah, I suppose I can see how some people would enjoy ruining a perfectly good working Vintage computer.
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Maybe not original, but the Mystic upgrade is itself still vintage, and not really that much newer than a CC itself, but I do get keeping it original.
 
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