[Tech_and_Music]

Macintosh Color Classic from Japan. Imported it because Buyee had a special free shipping offer, and it ended up being much cheaper than getting it in Europe (this cost me €98 in total, the ones in Europe tend to start at €250). Fixed a missing power switch as the previous owner probably broke it, and just replaced it with two wires with spade connectors to connect the IEC plug and analog board together. As the machine has soft power on, there isn't really a problem with hot wiring it, other than it always sipping standby power. I also removed a Maxell PRAM battery that was just about to leak, and after a little tinkering around, all is well.

It's fairly slow though (a lot of bloat on this Mac OS install), and it won't always succesfully boot from the HDD, so that's probably going bad. Nothing a SCSI2SD can't fix, but I still need to buy a bunch of those for many of my Macs and for any future SGIs. It will need a recap for both the logic board and analog board, which I will do soon, when the weather cools down a bit again.

I will likely also do a 640x480 mod, as the 512x384 resolution will stop a lot of software from working due to the former resolution often being a minimum requirement. There's a few ways of doing it, but I'd like to go with the method that will work with both the original logic board, as well as a "Mystic" board (a board out of an LC5xx series machine, most of which are less crippled '030, or even '040 machines).