Let's Ruin a Macintosh Color Classic

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  @ActionRetro · 4 years ago · pinned

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• SO

  @SolraBizna · 4 years ago

  Fun fact: If AppleTalk is enabled, and there are no other AppleTalk devices connected, your Mac may delay startup by up to 60 seconds waiting for a response that will never come. Always turn AppleTalk off unless you&apos;re using it.

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• BR

  @BrodieChree · 4 years ago

  The MacBook Air 11&quot; of classic AIO Macs

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• PR

  @prispalos · 4 years ago (edited)

  The best worst Macintosh ever made, covered by the best Macintosh YouTube channel ever made

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• TH

  @TheInternetLord · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIjwLxExSWs&amp;t=847">14:07</a> As a Gen Z, I would like to respectfully correct you as it is mostly referred to as a &quot;Big Oof&quot;.

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• MO

  @monkeyman767 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIjwLxExSWs&amp;t=1285">21:25</a> &quot;it&apos;s not the worst....oh no, it&apos;s the worst&quot; got a good laugh out of me

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• AL

  @alerey4363 · 4 years ago

  That external apple scsi cd-rom drive was one of the few reliable things apple made back in that day; it will boot almost any mac model from the 80s and 90s provided you had the right cd version, albeit slowly, but sure it can revive any classic macos vintage computer

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• NO

  @NoobixCube · 4 years ago

  &quot;Borderline unplayable&quot; is, as I heard it at the time, the experience of the Wolfenstein Mac port. I wouldn&apos;t blame the Color Classic for that.

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• GE

  @geekwithsocialskills · 4 years ago

  Welcome to the Color Classic Mystic club! I did the Mystic upgrade on my Color Classic during MARCHintosh 2021. You&apos;ll love this machine for sure!

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• FS

  @fsfs555 · 4 years ago

  The CC was basically an LC II in a pretty, compact AIO box, so it had the same 16MHz &apos;030 stuck with a 16-bit bus and 10MB RAM ceiling (which were what really hobbled these things). The CC II (and LC 550) was an LC III+ in a compact AIO box and it was actually pretty good: 33MHz, 72-pin SIMMs for 32+MB of RAM, with a full 32-bit bus. I&apos;ve actually done all of the various CC mods over the years and the Mystic is arguably the best as far as performance improvement vs. ease of installation. The PowerCC with the Alchemy and Gazelle-based boards are fast, for sure, but it&apos;s a ton of work with a hacksaw/rotary tool and rewiring of the harness (including installation of a 3.3v regulator in most cases), and if you want to use a PCI card you&apos;ll have to rig something up to physically support it. And for a G3 upgrade you&apos;ll have to hack up the case even further, cutting out part of the chassis below the floppy drive. Unlike the Mystic, these also require the HiRes upgrade; they don&apos;t support the native 512x384 resolution.<br>Also that Seagate hard drive is really good, assuming it&apos;s still properly functional. It&apos;s way better than the OE drive and way faster than a stock CC deserves (and probably shouldn&apos;t have been used because of increased power draw and heat production).

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  @dennisud · 4 years ago

  That resolution limitation as well as the slow specs made this updgrade a must! Plus I had an LC-550 that had a Video-TV card in it. It&apos;s bigger BUT It sure gave the same vibes as this little ditty!

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• BI

  @bingusthatsnotsquiddo · 4 years ago

  color modern; make it with a POWERPC chip and give to Sean

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