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It's a 512K Mac with Kay Koba's Fat Mac Switcher and also his ROM-inator I. The short summaries of those 2 videos are: 1. Fat Mac Switcher: Allows selection of 512K or 128K RAM (while Mac is OFF). 2. ROM-inator I: Allows you to flash the stock 128K ROMs, 64K ROMs, or customized ROMs. I...

Wait... You were in bed preparing for slumber when you suddenly remembered your password was Golden Slumbers? :-) That's pretty amazing. But it also shows you put priority on a good nights' sleep. And with all that programming prowess you have, David, I can see why a solid 8-hours is...

Yes, I have the ROM-inator (128K ROMs) in my Fat Mac Switcher equipped Mac512, but how is EasyShare used?

Wonderful! Extracted from tape backup no less! Thank you for your preservation efforts, David!

@dougg3 , @Fizzbinn , and you other LC550 owners... Sorry for the trouble, but could you please post your LC550 board benchmarks in the following apps? Norton System Info 3.5.3 Norton System Info 3.2.1 Speedometer 4.0 Speedometer 3.0.6 MacBench 3.0 (all tests) It could be that no single one...

@Scorpio_ny Both look fantastic. Well done!

@Kai Robinson If I buy the LCD kit for my Color Classic, will you watch it in its entirety? :geek: Regardless, I am strangely compelled to open my low-on-cash wallet for this kit, even though I know I will likely get hate from the purists who demand CRT tubes in every vintage machine out there...

I don't know if I have "OCD" but I do get "hot and bothered" (he he) by specs of dust behind glass, and I experienced that a lot when doing my iMac graphics card bake videos.

You mentioned System 6 being associated with speed, which it absolutely is, but the 512K machines are made to use even older versions of System Software. System 3.2 & Finder 5.1 work rather well for the period-correct application software you would likely use on such machines. They are also...

that’s basically what a stock Color Classic is. And that’s why it’s so painfully slow.

Thanks for adding the photo. So it seems the LCD offers a bit more brightness than the CRT set to its upper brightness level. That’s good to hear.

Yes, I’ve been pondering that lower weight benefit quite a lot actually. It worries me to pick it up only by the top handle, so I’m always very careful to put my left hand under the machine when moving it around. On top of that, the LCD makes the pixels perfect — not a 640x480 “native...

Very interesting! That article says he heated a 6mm thick acrylic sheet with a hot air gun and then laid it over the glass CRT (apparently to reshape the sheet into the form factor of the CRT) and later he trimmed off the excess.

Well, that's one way to "get color" inside a Mac Plus or Mac SE case! :-) I do think your use of the CRT glass is novel. You put a bad CRT to good use, which otherwise would have just be disposed of! But you probably needed something other than a Dremel to cleanly cut the glass like that...

In that case, none of those temperatures are "hot." If you have an oscilloscope, it would be good to see what is going on with the output voltages. I know what your multi-meter says, but seeing the waveforms might prove interesting. Even so, you may not have a scope, and that is fine too...

I tried that, but it has zero effect. When you run your fingers over the screen, it feels like an oil painting. The surface is permanently deformed. It's strange because while in storage, nothing physically touched the display at all. It was packed inside the original Apple Box, with...

@jeffburg Is there no hope for vinegar syndrome displays? If not, do they serve any good use, such as for "donor parts"?

Thank you very much for the added info, @daanvdl . So in regards to my question No. 4, which I revisited in my previous post too, it would seem that displaying 800x600 with a compatible 68K motherboard is not possible, as per the fact you offer 12-inch mode or 13-inch mode exclusively. As...

Yes.

I have two of the 17" and one of the 22" — all used with my two G4 Cubes in the past. Sadly, I left the 23" inside its original box for too long in a room that wasn't climate-controlled and it developed vinegar syndrome. I noticed that for the first time this year, in fact. So terribly...