First post, by Sphere478
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- l33t++
This is going to be a very fun build for me, as this was my first computer.
For years this computer sat around our house growing up and later ended up in the attic, circa 2010 my parents asked if I wanted it and I regretfully said no and it was either thrown out or ended up in a garage sale.
Now over ten years later I am getting a second chance at one, unfortunately not the original.
If you bought one of these at a garage sale near cave creek arizona around that time, hit me up.
So the other day I won an auction for 1200$ for one of these systems, it comes with 32mb simm add in which back in the day I had myself added.
Also comes with a 500mb hard drive, the one I had was a 160mb which I remember the clicks fondly.
And finally It has a apple IIe card, something I am curious to play with.
This one I am pretty sure has a tray cd drive, mine had a cassette cd tray. And I kinda would like to convert it back to that
The unit will not have a math processor, of which my old one did not have one either, i have however ordered one for it. A 40mhz part which I assume will run at 33mhz
The processor I believe is soldered to the board, I would be very curious to somehow upgrade it to power pc, I remember trying to run many pieces of software back in the day which claimed to need that. This is where I get a little fuzzy on direction and would like some advice.
My ultimate lc-5xx build I think would be a 5500 board in a lc-580 case with a 550 crt right? But what can I do to speed this one up without cutting or moving away from scsi?
