Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:27:34 +0100 From: Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 07:23 AM, J.S. Garrison wrote:
The LC is always gonna be heeled by it's bad bus and low RAM ceiling. You'd be better off buying an LC475 board for $5 and putting that in, but then I dunno if they fit in the LC case...
They fit just fine. However, the speaker and fan connect differently. On the LC there's some kind of metal tab arrangement that connected the speaker and fan to metal contacts on the motherboard. If you were on usenet in comp.sys.mac.* several years ago you may remember an episode of "my LC's sound stopped working, what should I do?" postings, with the follow ups of "take out your speaker and clean the idiotic little metal contacts that Apple stuck you with."
On the LC475, the fan and speaker have wires with plugs at the end that plug into header pins on the motherboard. I don't know how hard it would be to convert the LC speaker and fan to work with the LC475--perhaps just a matter of removing the metal tabs and soldering on wires with plugs.
As a side note, not long after the LC speaker problems, the next epidemic was folks with LC475s that would not boot up and the answer was to replace the battery. There was even one joker selling "refurbished" LC475 boards for $100 with trade-in. I can't decide whether to admire his entreprenarial spirit or declare him a jerk. I think it did violate the spirit of usenet.
Jeff Walther
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