Happy #MARCHintosh anyways! :D

Works as a great entry!

Heck yeah, happy #MARCHintosh2022 to all! Great Color Classic you got there, I'm excited to clean it up and see it running for years to come.

is that a Quick Time Sticker on the front of that mac?

#MARCHintosh2022 if you don't want to look at time stamps of a #MARCHintosh post :)

That it is! Looking forward to seeing more of the one you've been working on

Hello Action! :)

What video game consoles dose lgr have? any games with them

I'm suscribes to both LGR and Action Retro, this vid appeared on my feed and I thought it was the part 2 for the Mac Frankenstein lol

I got myself a Mystic because of ActionRetro’s build. I mean to be fair I collect retro gear that I upgrade and mod to the very top possible spec that it’s compatible with (stuff like classic iMac g3’s running the Summer 2001 700mhz CPU, max’d ram and SSD, etc… in this Apple context and wayyy more), but Action Retro’s videos made me finally pull the trigger on these insanely expensive rigs

As a Canadian, this brings back so many memories as well. My school growing up pretty much only had these, and I spent many years tinkering on them.

Brasileiro ou português? Reading this made me fuzzy inside

@@joshuaduplaa9033 Both of my parents immigrated from the Açores.

thats awesome

Right on man

sponging on the walls, carpeted floors, external modem, bbs list printed out on the wall, AOL floppies reformatted.

renovating an entire room ain't cheap, the price of the computer will be a minor factor

Go all Frasurbane on the home office look

@@mgjk and decorations with extra squiggly lines

It's funny because the one they still use on modern macos sounds like a 64kbps sound file ripped straight out of 1993.

he wont do that

@@everythingpony It's not that he won't, but he could.

wow this is cool

How much she get for it?

@UCOGvM_OYBgR96lMuAop05Pg No clue. She sold it back in ‘97 so probably not much at all.

Could be worse, my parents sold all their Apple stock a couple years before the iPod was released 🤦

I think its time you call up your mother and tell her you forgiver her for selling the Mac. Its been many years. Thats a long time to hold a grudge over selling an old Mac computer. Its not worth the grudge.

How I feel about my Apple IIgs and all its software and books.

Sounds like a good candidate for a RaspberryPi case... The biggest problem being how to interface to the display.

I have an lc575 in the basement, I better check the board to make sure battery hasn’t destroyed it!

Watxh his video about the warehouse in Texas. How far are you willing to go…..

@@scurvy3113 I've been to Computer Reset four times. Nothing like this has been there for a long time at this point.

Same. I went to a small K through 8 school. We had these ones, later on I think some Mac Performas from like 95 or so and then I think my last year they got some brand new iMacs, those neon ones. The older grades would get the better computers and they would essentially hand down the older ones to the younger classes.

Wow, I’ve been trying to figure out what that alternative desktop from my memories was called…At Ease. Thank you!!

I remember discovering that a file dialog in one of the Microsoft Office applications had a way to delete a file from the filesystem and you could use it to browse to the folder where the At Ease binary was and delete it which disabled At Ease (at least my memory says it worked for the exact combination of hardware, OS, At Ease version, MS Office version etc that the lab in question had at that time)

Yes! when randomly clicking on stuff could get you into unauthorized stuff!!!🥰 Good times.

I was the technology specialist at a private school in 1992, and we used At Ease mostly successfully. One tech-savvy student got around At Ease a few weeks after we opened the lab with the new computers. We caught him and he was very apologetic. He was in fact a very good student and did not have ill intent other than to "see how to do it".

It would feel like that…this crippled budget entry level Mac - even when new - was sporting a 16mhz 68030 cpu + with the OS updated to 7.5…..more like a 386 running win 95…..s l o w

if you have a video card driving a second monitor at 640x480 or higher, its possible to start the game, resize it, and play it at 512x. I play it in that way on my SE/30 that way!

I had no problem playing Lunatic Fringe module/game using the keyboard or even the Gravis game pad on the LC II.

Yes, I -wasted- spent many hours playing Lunatic Fringe ...

Yeah, I had a Quadra 650, quite a bit beyond this Mac, but I remember having no problems switching After Dark to some sort of game mode. I was also in my mid-20s at the time, so I would do things like read the directions... lol 😁 I'm pretty sure that was just you not knowing what you were doing, not a problem with the games.

Oregon trail time!

Nice! First computer I ever used was an Apple IIe at school

@@LGRBlerbs I can just see a young Clint slowly typing farts into his apple II with a wide maniacal smile growing on his face

@@LGRBlerbs Nice! They were my second computer. My family had a Commodore 64 at home. I should pull that beast out of storage haha.

It was for an 68881 FPU. Some Macs, like the LC and LCII, did not have a socket for a FPU, you had to use the PDS slot. Since there was only one PDS slot, this allowed you to have both the FPU and Ethernet at once.

@@straightpipediesel Wow. Thanks! 😀

@@CybershamanX geeze, I guess I'm old because I remember just about every board having a socket. Hardly any Mac owner actually got an FPU, it was stupid expensive. IBM PS/2s tried various proprietary sockets for chips and even RAM, and Compaq and other clones experimented as well. Very many of them stayed empty, sometimes the intended board never went into production. Manufacturers were still wondering if people would stubbornly hang onto the same computers for 20 years. Windows 3.1 and '95 showed people were willing to buy an entirely new PC, taking advantage of Moore's Law. I had the fascination, too, but it often turned to frustration, and now, still, vendors on ebay are charging extortionate prices for vintage upgrades.

Yep, the square socket accommodated a co-pro (IIRC though certain Macs needed a ROM upgrade, one reason why ROMs had a dedicated slot instead of discrete chips). Also the rectangular chip in a socket is the net boot (NetBIOS) chip - which allowed the Mac to operate like a dumb terminal and boot up over the network

why is he not understanding that this i not the classic you need.

I was wondering, I think 12/31/1969 was the usual "time zero" for Macs. This had to do with "Unix Time (or Epoch)". Before writing a proper calendar program, B&K just made a second timer count from the beginning of the year (this was around mid-March of 1970, on a PDP-7, I think) At this moment it's Unix Epoch 1647460917. Many Apple programmers used Unix, that was the inspiration for A/UX, which was whittled down to Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, which was about $400 in the mid-90s. A lot of history in that glitch!!

No, the Mac time zero used to be 1st January 1904.

He's definitely mentioned it before. I seem to recall it was Winston Hills but I"m sure it's not because that's in Australia and Clint is in North Carolina.

You can replace the 68LC040 with a full-blown 68040 chip, but be careful to get a real one. There are a lot of 68LC040 chips relabeled as 68040s.

LC stood for Low Cost. There were buggy versions typically found in 68LC040-based Apple Macintosh computers. "Chips with mask set 2E23G (as used in the LC 475) have been confirmed to be faulty." from Wikipedia

@@vwestlife Macs typically had buggy revisions of the 68LC040. That's the motivation for re-labelling them, they aren't just lower-teir; They have a fault relating to pending writes being lost when the F-line exception is triggered. Also the microcode can't be updated, the only solution is to get an authentic 68040

from an Average Joe, no less! 😄

Yeah, the primary issue was that the IIGS, as brilliant of a piece of computer engineering as it was (due in no small part to Steve Wozniak Himself), was a rival of Steve Jobs' darling project -- the Macintosh, which itself was a nerfed version of Job's earlier "Lisa" system. Despite the fact that the IIGS's combination of newer, advanced hardware plus near-perfect backwards compatibility w/ older Apple ][ / Apple IIe software & peripherals made it a potential bridge to longtime Apple users who were willing to upgrade their systems as long as they didn't have to abandon their entire existing software library & throw out their investment in Apple ][ hardware accessories, Jobs was hellbent on launching his own in-company project to promote what he considered The Ideal Computer System ...which apparently had no native support for color video output nor an easy path for DIY hardware upgrades (in its original incarnation, the Macintosh required both a security-screw driver + a specialized tool to crack open the system case -- all just to open up the damn thing). Compared to the entire Apple ][ line which (except the //c which was designed to be highly compact) featured multiple hardware expansion board slots & easy access to the internals, the Macintosh was a huge step backwards.

@@zenkim6709 I was just thinking that someone should reintroduce Apple to screws. A Mac enthusiast at work was saying that replacing the failed hard drive in his iMac will involve prising through glue.