Yesterday for $5 I found a mac LCII at thrift store and I snatched it up. The outside case is so old and yellow it looks like someone had it sitting outside since 1994... Anyway, I got it because I fully intended to strip it for parts. Super drive floppies are a PITA, and it had a small 80mb scsi hard drive. the nice thing about this particular hard drive is its power requirements. If the sticker can be believed, it only wants 200mA from each the 5v and 12v lines. Which is excelent, because I want to mod a hard drive INSIDE a mac plus. It had 2x 4mb simms that were salvaged and put into a SB 3600 sound card and the coolest part is, it had an Ethernet card! YAY! The LCIII I have needs one of these! The power supply would be a nice backup as well.
So, question #1; the network card from the LCII fits into my LCIII, but will it work?
question 2: Do i leave the co-processor in the motherboard, or do I put it in the slot on the network card? (I'm not joking, I remember something about this, but I'm not sure)
While poking around in these machines I realized something. The processor in the LCIII is marked the same as the LCII. This isnt right! they were supposed to be a different! I know the 3's were supposed to run at 25mhz and some at 33! But the processors are both the same between the LCII and LCIII! Here are some pictures; The LCII is on the LEFT and the III on the right.
Did my father get swindled back in 1994 or do they really overclock the processors for the 3's?
So, question #1; the network card from the LCII fits into my LCIII, but will it work?
question 2: Do i leave the co-processor in the motherboard, or do I put it in the slot on the network card? (I'm not joking, I remember something about this, but I'm not sure)
While poking around in these machines I realized something. The processor in the LCIII is marked the same as the LCII. This isnt right! they were supposed to be a different! I know the 3's were supposed to run at 25mhz and some at 33! But the processors are both the same between the LCII and LCIII! Here are some pictures; The LCII is on the LEFT and the III on the right.
Did my father get swindled back in 1994 or do they really overclock the processors for the 3's?