You compacters everywhere: Our Joe WF Runnels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> askz:
I have an LC here... and I was wondering... if the system RAM in it and video RAM in it could be used for any compacts... including the classic and classic II? Yup. Lesser Macs are always good sources of scavange parts for our compact Macs. The LC gives up its hard drive as you have already done. And always look for useable software on the drive before you nuke and pave it. The two 30 pin RAM SIMMs will go into other Macs. If but 1 MB SIMMs, they will work in any Mac using 1 MB SIMMs. If 4 MB SIMMs, well then, you have your two SIMMs to max out the RAM in a Classic II or a Color Classic. If they are 8 or 9 chip 4 MB SIMMs, then they will also work in a Plus, SE, or SE/30 though you will want two more as sets of four are best in these Macs. The video or VRAM SIMM is a standard VRAM SIMM that works in a Color Classic and any number of other color Macs. I seem to recall that an LC and the LC II have a single VRAM slot with likely a scarce 512 KB VRAM SIMM rather than the more common but still useful 256KB VRAM SIMM so definitely capture that VRAM SIMM. Other useful little pieces include the battery if it is still good, the battery cage cover, the Type 75 floppy drive of course which will go right into an SE-FDHD or better compact, and the tiny little anchor screws from the SCSI and monitor ports. I find those little anchor screws go missing from Macs often. Also, keep the expansion port cover to replace a missing cover on later pizza box Macs worth keeping. Oh, and should you find an expansion card in the LCs PDS slot, well, you will know what to do with that. I have found ethernet cards, graphics cards, and even a DayStar accelerator card inside of an LC. And that DayStar card even worked with a Color Classic. You might want to keep the cables. But beware; CABLES BREED! A small box of cables can quickly become a frothing mass of cables worse than Kudzu. If you keep cables, weed them regularly. If you have the room, keep the cover. It may be useful to replace a damaged, missing, or ugly cover on another pizza box. Actually, I have one right down at the side of my bench. It makes a quick flat platform to balance on my knees if needed. And an LC motherboard just happens to be the motherboard we pass around to the students in our Mac classes just to see what a so-called motherboard looks like. No way they are going to damage anything useful if they drop that LC 'board. Mac scrap is really Mac treasure. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
