The color classic is one of my top favorite Apple designs ever. Something about it just looks so sleek and classic. It’s like they took the Macintosh design and perfected it.
I find myself wondering, if you're just replacing the entire motherboard, does it even count as the same machine anymore? It's a bit of a "ship of theseus" problem I think.
My understanding of the video was the love of the computer's form factor, not necessarily it's power/specifications. I mean if they loved the computer as is, why change anything?
I went to a catholic school for the first bit of my education. The principal was obsessed with Macs. We had an entire lab full of 5300’s that I did all the networking on long after I graduated. Most importantly, the principal had a Mac + for years but one day, it was replaced with a color classic. She used that thing for years and years. Around 2005, she retired and she has it in her living room for show to this day.
I love the modding/hacking seen for the Colour Classic, it's awesome that people would go so far to keep their beloved machines but the words "Ship of Theseus" kind of ring in my ears… :/
@@DrDavesDiversions one could argue it’s a bad argument. The Amiga crowd has literally continued to advance the entire platform after its official demise, everything from hardware, including the CPU, to the OS, and new accessories. That’s a hard act to follow, and it certainly isn’t one the Macintosh Color Classic is up for.
@@bujin5455 If you look at the Mac timeline and soooo many products, it's hard to compare ongoing popularity of models to the Amiga line. I mean this is ridiculous ('80's/'90s especially). Matt over at retrobits channel yesterday posted a video calling this timeline era a "haystack." :) I agree. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Macintosh_models
You are so lucky! I can’t get over the fact that some people find awesome computers in the side of the road. Around me, the only thing I find are old CRTs. Over and over
I thought the same. Only last year a board was released for upgrading a lowly Amiga 500 from a 68000 at 7 MHz to a 68040 at up to 120 MHz - implemented in FPGA (Motorola only made them run as high as 40 MHz back in the day). Are there any upgrades available for M68K Macs?
PPC upgrades exist for the A1200, A3K, and A4K in the form of the PowerUP accelerator board line. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerUP_(accelerator)#Blizzard_PPC
Great video as always! Love this video's bump in production quality. Please consider talking about the PC-8800/9800 series, (interesting influence on gaming) or the iMac G3 (we had these all over in elementary school lol, pretty sure my school still has a few in storage...)
I find it interesting that classic Macs had their screen resolution limited to the size of the monitor, and instead of changing the pixel resolution, one had to buy a bigger Apple monitor, so instead of smaller pixels, the user got bigger screen estate.
This video was fantastic! Computer history is fascinating to me. Just recently acquired a Powermac G4 and have been tinkering with it a bit. I'd love to find an older Classic Mac someday too.
What kind of a computer is that on the table at 5:36? That laptop with the integrated pen to the right of the screen and a directional pad to the left? I love its design!
The apple color mac maybe not the most powerfull 16bit machine but come on, it was atleast way more powerfull then game consoles from that era, also if you just replace the 10MB ram with 30KB or ram as well as overclocking to cpu to it's max speed, that should be fine. Also if even most games couldn't run on it because of the 512x480 res being too low, well then consider this, most 16bit games on game consoles were only 256x240 pixels and even that was acceptible.
My school had dozens of these which ended up eventually getting dumped and replaced with boring Windows 95 PCs. I managed to save one (which I still have) but have always wished I’d recovered more.
Apple launches... Color Classic with 10MB memory max, AFTER the SE/30 which included a processor direct slot, and up to 128MB ram with some software tweaks. You can even upgrade the SE/30 untill it is even faster than a IIfx...
What about Commodore Amiga computers? They died in 1994 and there are still several hardware and software developers in 2021... new OS, Accelerators, etc.
While I am personally a windows user and don't care much for Apple and their products nowadays, I still find their older Macintosh computers really fascinating and love learning about them
I was always a fan of the performa 550, it was an awesome machine, the newer ones didn’t excite me nor does the newer versions of windows. The last system I liked was NT 5.0 server in the early to mid 2000’s
You missed out discussing the All in One, i had that mac and it pretty much blew the compact mac's out of the water, that being said some could say that it was not compact, also the bondi mac was still a compact mac.
They should make a thinline Machintosh Classic today just for the heck of it. Just functioning as a desktop tablet being handy for notes, plans and miscellaneous. I'm not an Apple guy, but I'd buy that as long as it wasn't severely overpriced. Irony is most Apple products are, sadly. 5:36 Also dang, that's a cool setup.
Always loved the idea of having these AIOs Apple produced back then. Sure it's total garbage if those things brake at some point but its compact and useful enough to most users. My favorite will remain the G3 iMac though.
I always wanted a Color Classic 1 or 2, but they are so expensive plus having to replace capacitors and extra stuff. I'm happy with my two Mac SE's. lol
Seeing this makes me miss the 'Monitor Mac' (identical to the Mac at 5:01 in the video) LC Power Mac my mom had back when I was a teenager. She was a teacher so could purchase LC Power Macs since those models were limited to the education market. It had a PCI slot and she got a PC Compatibility card for it, which was a Pentium 90 with 32MB RAM which ran pretty much independently of the computer and Windows 95 off a separate partition of the hard drive, but used everything else of the computer. It wasn't bad, though it wasn't great either. It was a Jack of All Trades, and pretty much ran second string to our normal PC at home, by my Mom was able to use it for school work, and I was able to use it for Myst before it became available for PC (muahaha). After she moved to a G3 with no compatibility card, it lived in my bedroom for a while....wish I still had it....
I had a modified CC - had a 275mhz PPC processor in it - I did all of the work. It was amazing but it was still barely adequate to even access the internet in our modern age (2001-2002). I threw it out in a padded in case in a dumpster in 2011 - big mistake given how much they are worth now, even hacked as much as mine was :(
Wow, I didn't know most of this stuff! Great little machine, if you ask me. Last Mac I had before, years later, I ended up on a free piece-meal 386 with a bare slackware barely fitted in and running remote X windows to a K6 II 350MHz over 50 yards of 10BaseT ethernet :-D
Hi. Thanks. This brings back great memories of my LC 575 and Color Classic (US):-) and the memories opening those two for those mods (and having fun exchanging LC 575's board, my first Mac into the CC just for fun) and painstakingly soldering that Takky mod (and attempting that Macquarium) I wished I'd kept the CC, it's still the cutest computer every made along with a white PC Engine:-). CC's even cuter than the first iMac. That was a great chapter of my life with Macs. I hope Apple remakes the Color Classic without changing much the look and feel change (else it'll destroy that cutest computer every made by far) like what Nintendo did with NES and Famicom (which I have now). Same look and feel but with cool tech underneath even with a 10 inch OLED screen:-) and powerful enough for modern gaming which will be fast coz' of the resolution. I wonder what resolution using Retina tech with it's high PPI would be just right (native resolution) a few inches from its screen that's still comfortable to read? Any calculations say if they use an LG or Samsung with retina or higher PPI? I think like the NES or Famicom Mini, that CC revival would still sell very well, especially in Japan:-) God bless. Proverbs 31
I have two of these machines, purchased at a time when I thought I might make the jump from Amiga to Apple. I found that this, and the G3 Power Mac were so inferior to the Amiga, that they languished in the corner of my basement. I did not realize that they have value, so now, I am going to sell them, and the LC III, and just keep the upgraded 7600 Power Mac and my Powerbook to play with. I have to admit, that with owning the last of the Mac line, that I do like owning a little bit of Apple history. I was getting a limo ride to the Toronto airport one day back when the Mac had been announced, and the limo driver told us as part of the usual conversation, that he was a software developer, and had just received a pre production Mac, and couldn't wait to get home to start working with it. It is amazing how quickly things evolved in those years. Bob
I truly miss my cute Color Classic. I truly regret selling it. I tried those mods including rewiring. The transplant of the LC575 board was the easiest but it looks bad when viewed at the back.
Wow, my school had a lot of these units back in the late 90s, I honestly think they were just binned when the school was rebuilt and new IT systems (iMac) were installed. Wish I had asked for one to keep but they were so common and I didn’t give it a second thought.
I am I wrong in seeing the Color Classic II as more of nice case with built in screen? I feel like if you swap the motherboard you are just installing are just swapping the computer and keeping the peripherals.
It would be cool if apple still made a macintosh classic/compact mac with a similar silhouette to the original. (It would obviously be thinner though.)
Australia had so many of these as all the unsold ones were dumped here and the education market lapped them up. Many schools still used them up to 2000! At least the apple talk networks and the machines were super easy to work on and fix.
Great video! The intro of the video got me thinking, was Apple ever a big player in the Japanese microcomputer market? I thought foreign companies had effectively been pushed out of the Japanese market after the short period where Commodore dominated the market with the VIC-1001.
The iMac (and other all-in one models that came before it) isn't really considered a "compact Mac." Generally, machines that fit that term have smaller 9" or 10" displays. Wikipedia has the definitive list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Macintosh
Well, we will have to agree to disagree. And as one of my professor's likes to remind me on a regular basis, Wikipedia is not a valid source. (Sorry couldn't help it, as a grad student I hear this non-stop.)
However this could be an issue only if you can really find a paper that could tell you what is a "compact mac". Otherwise, you are dealing with non-acdemic problems, Wikipeidia is generally good enough.
Hi. By the way you forgot Applefritter.com which is a site of old Apple mods, including some CC mods I believe (I think it was an LCD mod). God bless. Proverbs 31
Hi. It's nice Stuart's site is up still and so is Applefritter. I hope they revive the Strongest Color Classic site. I wonder what Stuart and the two japanese (Takky) are doing today and what they're up to? Their Color Classic are probably running SSDs now and may have modded OLED LCDs by now which they should share procedures for again if that's the case, lol. The good memories using his wire diagrams to solder; memories importing a PowerPC board to transplant to an LC 575 coz' it has the same design as the CC but I think I may have needed to adjust a potentiometer to compensate for the larger LC 575 screen- I wished that worked coz' it was tough importing the PowerPC board (had to ask my cousin to get it). Also the CC was too cute to gut, lol. It's my favorite computer design, still the cutest. I wished I still had them, especially the CC as a display. Those are tedious to disassemble (and dangerous) like the CRT iMac. Thank God for LCD and hopefully 2017 will have OLED iMacs with touchscreen and pen for painting - like Surface Studio which should have been the 2016 iMac . Btw, any idea how to detect which SMD capacitor or resistor or component is malfunctioning on a Late 2009 iMac's GPU. I accidentally shorted it out (I had to buy the sort of new, though the tech is 1 year old and still being sold premium Late 2015 5k iMac for work coz' of an accident) when I was repairing the Late 2009's Wifi and laziness do have its consequences- with the 27" LCD and cable still attached, the LCD fell and everything that's connected got ripped off (LCD's scratches, and 7mm crack). This iMac still starts and has the start up sound but the GPU is not ok. I could probably fix the ripped off cables (or have them fixed) coz' the contacts are still ok, thankfully. If I put the GPU back in, it's just black but there's the start up sound, the fans are ok. I wonder if it's the GPU or the logicboard? The ground happened at the LCD connector (accidentally with a piece of metal). I do feel of course it was a blessing in disguise to buy a new one already (coz' that was a 6 year old very used iMac- had two GPU repairs by me already- just that flip chip issue heat it up fix) It'd be nice to revive the Late 2009 iMac so I can use it as 2nd monitor where some tabs and menus will be there (it'll be too slow if say you had a pro 3D app and you placed all the panels and windows on one monitor and the 3D app you're working on is fullscreen at 5120 x 2880, maybe this is ok with 2D apps like video editing- hopefully that external GPU for Macs will be here soon and hopefully it Crossfire's with the built-in iMac GPU) as well as use the 2nd monitor for site browsing and videos in fullscreen (though I have an old beaten Windows XP laptop for that coz' it's best if you have a dedicated mouse on the play/pause button, you don't lose the app focus when switching between your pro app and the browser). They are always on computers (no hibernate just sleep which is the best, occasional restart though). Thanks again. Have a great day. God bless. Proverbs 31
Actually, I covered the Neo Geo Pocket Color about six months ago: ruclips.net/video/sBNS6o7W2gM/видео.html This style of video takes quite a while to put together, but I already have some ideas for future episodes.
The actual research portion was easy -- I already knew all of it. Finding historical photos/video/Web sites was a bit more tricky, and I'm very thankful to those who let me use their work.
What an absolutely gorgeous piece of industrial design. I miss this look so much.
The color classic is one of my top favorite Apple designs ever. Something about it just looks so sleek and classic. It’s like they took the Macintosh design and perfected it.
I find myself wondering, if you're just replacing the entire motherboard, does it even count as the same machine anymore? It's a bit of a "ship of theseus" problem I think.
I came to the comments to say the same thing. I assume the big functional differences would be the monitor and power supply.
Daniel G ha! I just said much the same only to scroll down and see this. :D
My understanding of the video was the love of the computer's form factor, not necessarily it's power/specifications. I mean if they loved the computer as is, why change anything?
Summer Laverdure practically, the really major mods came as the hardware became to old for practical, every day use. :)
It really can't be just form factor though. iMac G3 was small, why was it never modded with the same passion?
Fantastic, interesting episode.
what do you mean?
I went to a catholic school for the first bit of my education. The principal was obsessed with Macs. We had an entire lab full of 5300’s that I did all the networking on long after I graduated. Most importantly, the principal had a Mac + for years but one day, it was replaced with a color classic. She used that thing for years and years. Around 2005, she retired and she has it in her living room for show to this day.
I love the modding/hacking seen for the Colour Classic, it's awesome that people would go so far to keep their beloved machines but the words "Ship of Theseus" kind of ring in my ears… :/
Cody Hurst I totally agree but there's no escaping forced obsolescence.
Cody Hurst Awesome. :)
6:56 I don't know, the Amigas just won't die.
Colin hedges his bet with "One could argue." :)
Proof in point, I just put up a video with my 68040 Amiga being the fastest Mac Plus ever (?).
@@DrDavesDiversions one could argue it’s a bad argument. The Amiga crowd has literally continued to advance the entire platform after its official demise, everything from hardware, including the CPU, to the OS, and new accessories. That’s a hard act to follow, and it certainly isn’t one the Macintosh Color Classic is up for.
@@bujin5455 Good point... arguably. ;)
@@bujin5455 If you look at the Mac timeline and soooo many products, it's hard to compare ongoing popularity of models to the Amiga line. I mean this is ridiculous ('80's/'90s especially). Matt over at retrobits channel yesterday posted a video calling this timeline era a "haystack." :)
I agree.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Macintosh_models
I found one of these on the side of the road ironically next to a lc 575.
how is that ironic
You are so lucky! I can’t get over the fact that some people find awesome computers in the side of the road. Around me, the only thing I find are old CRTs. Over and over
@@poble The lc 575 logic board is used to do a "mystic" upgrade for the color classic
@@cadenyang3058 yeah, but that’s not irony. that’s a coincidence
No other computer enjoys life after death... what about Amiga?
I thought the same. Only last year a board was released for upgrading a lowly Amiga 500 from a 68000 at 7 MHz to a 68040 at up to 120 MHz - implemented in FPGA (Motorola only made them run as high as 40 MHz back in the day).
Are there any upgrades available for M68K Macs?
Theres also Vampire II HW Accelerator for Amiga 600
My Amiga is still working and is much loved and used, it's far from dead :)
He did say “fascinating” ... nobody has tried modding the Amiga to the same extent, simply because the software would no longer work.
PPC upgrades exist for the A1200, A3K, and A4K in the form of the PowerUP accelerator board line. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerUP_(accelerator)#Blizzard_PPC
great video. do you watch the 8 bit guy? his channel is really cool.
I watch 8-Bit guy. I suspect many do.
So do i
I just want to say your channel is Life. You're amazing!
This computer was featured in the movie, Perfect Blue.
What’s that movie about?
I have a Color Classic, bought it used in 92. Also have a Bondi Blue iMac.
It's the dancing computer from the Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue. :D
Interesting topic, I've never knew Macintosh Color Classic was a hard core upgrade geeks machine in the late 90s. Thanks for the video!
Try to do that now with an Apply pc and see how you fare. It is their way only or the highway with Apple now.
Great video as always! Love this video's bump in production quality.
Please consider talking about the PC-8800/9800 series, (interesting influence on gaming) or the iMac G3 (we had these all over in elementary school lol, pretty sure my school still has a few in storage...)
I find it interesting that classic Macs had their screen resolution limited to the size of the monitor, and instead of changing the pixel resolution, one had to buy a bigger Apple monitor, so instead of smaller pixels, the user got bigger screen estate.
This video was fantastic! Computer history is fascinating to me. Just recently acquired a Powermac G4 and have been tinkering with it a bit. I'd love to find an older Classic Mac someday too.
What kind of a computer is that on the table at 5:36? That laptop with the integrated pen to the right of the screen and a directional pad to the left? I love its design!
The apple color mac maybe not the most powerfull 16bit machine but come on, it was atleast way more powerfull then game consoles from that era, also if you just replace the 10MB ram with 30KB or ram as well as overclocking to cpu to it's max speed, that should be fine.
Also if even most games couldn't run on it because of the 512x480 res being too low, well then consider this, most 16bit games on game consoles were only 256x240 pixels and even that was acceptible.
My school had dozens of these which ended up eventually getting dumped and replaced with boring Windows 95 PCs. I managed to save one (which I still have) but have always wished I’d recovered more.
Does it hold a trinitron tube ?
これこれ！
取引先の先生にそそのかされてPowerMac6100を買ってから沼にハマった。
G3→G4→G5で破産しました(T_T)
懲りずに先週12世代でメインマシン組んだけどｗｗｗ
Apple launches... Color Classic with 10MB memory max, AFTER the SE/30 which included a processor direct slot, and up to 128MB ram with some software tweaks. You can even upgrade the SE/30 untill it is even faster than a IIfx...
It looks like a little Star Wars droid. I used to see these running in my middle school library. Always I wanted one.
What about Commodore Amiga computers? They died in 1994 and there are still several hardware and software developers in 2021... new OS, Accelerators, etc.
That is a nice looking computer. Love that all-in-one style.
While I am personally a windows user and don't care much for Apple and their products nowadays, I still find their older Macintosh computers really fascinating and love learning about them
I was always a fan of the performa 550, it was an awesome machine, the newer ones didn’t excite me nor does the newer versions of windows. The last system I liked was NT 5.0 server in the early to mid 2000’s
just slap a mini-ITX board into it, with a Ryzen, and install any OS that suits it. THERE UPGRAYDED AGAIN!
I had one. It was the ugliest Mac of all. Just my humble opinion.
A slide out motherboard thats fucking awesome .... and now we have a glued peace of shit where even RAM is soldered on it. Shame on you Apple.
512x384 ... higher than my Nintendo 3ds... WTF
The PowerMac G4 cube enjoyed a life after death, with processor upgrades, etc...
The 68040 running at 33MHz was a hell of a lot faster than the 030 or 020 that came in the original. The ‘90s was a good time for Macs. Fun to use.
You missed out discussing the All in One, i had that mac and it pretty much blew the compact mac's out of the water, that being said some could say that it was not compact, also the bondi mac was still a compact mac.
Just found your channel! Great video. Subscribed!
Thank you, and welcome aboard!
Couldn't you just seat a 10 inch LCD and shove a Macbook Air in there?
It needs zip disk cd burner wifi ethernet udb compact flash cards ram upgrade cpu upgrade
I remember when they updated it to color, some were claiming it didn't have the "warmth" of the original. Weird people.
Thie is a black /white/colour magic of modding:) woooow:) Thanx
1:52 "Poor performance"... haha, Classic Apple, High price for less!
This Mac seems really interesting makes me think of the molar Mac for some reason
Those mods are like Trigger's broom, it's not really a colour classic anymore apart from the case.
They should make a thinline Machintosh Classic today just for the heck of it. Just functioning as a desktop tablet being handy for notes, plans and miscellaneous. I'm not an Apple guy, but I'd buy that as long as it wasn't severely overpriced. Irony is most Apple products are, sadly.
5:36 Also dang, that's a cool setup.
Always loved the idea of having these AIOs Apple produced back then.
Sure it's total garbage if those things brake at some point but its compact and useful enough to most users.
My favorite will remain the G3 iMac though.
You take a 6tb desktop hard drive and transfer the disks to the hard drive that that came with the macintosh computer
I always wanted a Color Classic 1 or 2, but they are so expensive plus having to replace capacitors and extra stuff. I'm happy with my two Mac SE's. lol
I kinda want one of those modded models even though my calculator probably has more power.
The color classic is a cool machine, but I actually got a LCIII first, and it’s one of my favorite Mac desktops.
One has to wonder if someone modded a Color Classic with the iMac G3's motherboard, and hardware. Something else to think about.
apple is a horrible company, much like google.
Seriously? Stop being mean to Google, Apple doesn't deserve to be directly compared to Google.
At 5:05 mins....What model is that? First time I ever saw that one....I really like it.
if only the kept this innovative thought towards fixing and upgrading
Really want to see one of these as a sleeper build hackintosh
Seeing this makes me miss the 'Monitor Mac' (identical to the Mac at 5:01 in the video) LC Power Mac my mom had back when I was a teenager. She was a teacher so could purchase LC Power Macs since those models were limited to the education market. It had a PCI slot and she got a PC Compatibility card for it, which was a Pentium 90 with 32MB RAM which ran pretty much independently of the computer and Windows 95 off a separate partition of the hard drive, but used everything else of the computer. It wasn't bad, though it wasn't great either. It was a Jack of All Trades, and pretty much ran second string to our normal PC at home, by my Mom was able to use it for school work, and I was able to use it for Myst before it became available for PC (muahaha). After she moved to a G3 with no compatibility card, it lived in my bedroom for a while....wish I still had it....
I had a quick look at one of these at the Computer Shopper Show when they were new. That's the only one I've ever seen since. I have an LC III though.
What's the hole above the screen? If this was a more modern system I'd guess a camera, but this seems far too early for that. A mic?
Yep, that's the microphone.
I had a modified CC - had a 275mhz PPC processor in it - I did all of the work. It was amazing but it was still barely adequate to even access the internet in our modern age (2001-2002). I threw it out in a padded in case in a dumpster in 2011 - big mistake given how much they are worth now, even hacked as much as mine was :(
Anybody sticking raspberry PI's in them now? It could make a cool retro video game console.
It's a super simple main board, I'm surprised no one has done a FPGA version with more speed and tons of ram
Wow, I didn't know most of this stuff! Great little machine, if you ask me. Last Mac I had before, years later, I ended up on a free piece-meal 386 with a bare slackware barely fitted in and running remote X windows to a K6 II 350MHz over 50 yards of 10BaseT ethernet :-D
Hi. Thanks. This brings back great memories of my LC 575 and Color Classic (US):-) and the memories opening those two for those mods (and having fun exchanging LC 575's board, my first Mac into the CC just for fun) and painstakingly soldering that Takky mod (and attempting that Macquarium) I wished I'd kept the CC, it's still the cutest computer every made along with a white PC Engine:-). CC's even cuter than the first iMac. That was a great chapter of my life with Macs.
I hope Apple remakes the Color Classic without changing much the look and feel change (else it'll destroy that cutest computer every made by far) like what Nintendo did with NES and Famicom (which I have now). Same look and feel but with cool tech underneath even with a 10 inch OLED screen:-) and powerful enough for modern gaming which will be fast coz' of the resolution. I wonder what resolution using Retina tech with it's high PPI would be just right (native resolution) a few inches from its screen that's still comfortable to read? Any calculations say if they use an LG or Samsung with retina or higher PPI?
I think like the NES or Famicom Mini, that CC revival would still sell very well, especially in Japan:-)
God bless. Proverbs 31
I have two of these machines, purchased at a time when I thought I might make the jump from Amiga to Apple. I found that this, and the G3 Power Mac were so inferior to the Amiga, that they languished in the corner of my basement. I did not realize that they have value, so now, I am going to sell them, and the LC III, and just keep the upgraded 7600 Power Mac and my Powerbook to play with. I have to admit, that with owning the last of the Mac line, that I do like owning a little bit of Apple history.
I was getting a limo ride to the Toronto airport one day back when the Mac had been announced, and the limo driver told us as part of the usual conversation, that he was a software developer, and had just received a pre production Mac, and couldn't wait to get home to start working with it.
It is amazing how quickly things evolved in those years.
Bob
I truly miss my cute Color Classic. I truly regret selling it.
I tried those mods including rewiring. The transplant of the LC575 board was the easiest but it looks bad when viewed at the back.
Wow, my school had a lot of these units back in the late 90s, I honestly think they were just binned when the school was rebuilt and new IT systems (iMac) were installed. Wish I had asked for one to keep but they were so common and I didn’t give it a second thought.
I am I wrong in seeing the Color Classic II as more of nice case with built in screen? I feel like if you swap the motherboard you are just installing are just swapping the computer and keeping the peripherals.
If you loved that sliding motherboard you'd love the NeXTcube!
?Has anybody succeeded in installing an ssd on the cc
It would be cool if apple still made a macintosh classic/compact mac with a similar silhouette to the original. (It would obviously be thinner though.)
Next to the power button there is a fuse did you check that?
Australia had so many of these as all the unsold ones were dumped here and the education market lapped them up. Many schools still used them up to 2000! At least the apple talk networks and the machines were super easy to work on and fix.
Great video! The intro of the video got me thinking, was Apple ever a big player in the Japanese microcomputer market? I thought foreign companies had effectively been pushed out of the Japanese market after the short period where Commodore dominated the market with the VIC-1001.
Wow. Old school tweaking was a lot more difficult than it is these days.
this was my very first computer, i started it up for the last time in 2004. Now it's all yellow and won't start up
Mine used to scare me cause I swear at night it would turn itself on all by itself after I went to bed
2:53 - This was not the last compact Mac Apple would ever make. Have we forgotten about the original iMac which was a compact mac?
The iMac (and other all-in one models that came before it) isn't really considered a "compact Mac." Generally, machines that fit that term have smaller 9" or 10" displays. Wikipedia has the definitive list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Macintosh
Well, we will have to agree to disagree. And as one of my professor's likes to remind me on a regular basis, Wikipedia is not a valid source. (Sorry couldn't help it, as a grad student I hear this non-stop.)
However this could be an issue only if you can really find a paper that could tell you what is a "compact mac". Otherwise, you are dealing with non-acdemic problems, Wikipeidia is generally good enough.
Boleo I always used Wikipedia in school just to use their sources to help me find more "academic" sources.
I wouldn't consider a G3 iMac a compact Mac, though it's definitely closer to one than today's iMacs are to it.
Can this computer play old games like Dungeon of Doom which ran on the old Mac Plus?
Jeff if this video is indicative to your work on RUclips consider me subbed! Excellent job. Looking forward to more great stuff.
i found out which model it was.......I'm going to get one....
I wonder if any sun workstations are around , to refurb?
just wondering if A/UX runs on one of these, an answer would be helpful.
Hi. By the way you forgot Applefritter.com which is a site of old Apple mods, including some CC mods I believe (I think it was an LCD mod). God bless. Proverbs 31
Applefritter is currently hosting Stuart Bell's original Power Colo(u)r Classic site, what's where I got the screenshots ;-)
Hi. It's nice Stuart's site is up still and so is Applefritter. I hope they revive the Strongest Color Classic site. I wonder what Stuart and the two japanese (Takky) are doing today and what they're up to? Their Color Classic are probably running SSDs now and may have modded OLED LCDs by now which they should share procedures for again if that's the case, lol.
The good memories using his wire diagrams to solder; memories importing a PowerPC board to transplant to an LC 575 coz' it has the same design as the CC but I think I may have needed to adjust a potentiometer to compensate for the larger LC 575 screen- I wished that worked coz' it was tough importing the PowerPC board (had to ask my cousin to get it). Also the CC was too cute to gut, lol. It's my favorite computer design, still the cutest. I wished I still had them, especially the CC as a display. Those are tedious to disassemble (and dangerous) like the CRT iMac. Thank God for LCD and hopefully 2017 will have OLED iMacs with touchscreen and pen for painting - like Surface Studio which should have been the 2016 iMac .
Btw, any idea how to detect which SMD capacitor or resistor or component is malfunctioning on a Late 2009 iMac's GPU. I accidentally shorted it out (I had to buy the sort of new, though the tech is 1 year old and still being sold premium Late 2015 5k iMac for work coz' of an accident) when I was repairing the Late 2009's Wifi and laziness do have its consequences- with the 27" LCD and cable still attached, the LCD fell and everything that's connected got ripped off (LCD's scratches, and 7mm crack). This iMac still starts and has the start up sound but the GPU is not ok. I could probably fix the ripped off cables (or have them fixed) coz' the contacts are still ok, thankfully. If I put the GPU back in, it's just black but there's the start up sound, the fans are ok. I wonder if it's the GPU or the logicboard? The ground happened at the LCD connector (accidentally with a piece of metal). I do feel of course it was a blessing in disguise to buy a new one already (coz' that was a 6 year old very used iMac- had two GPU repairs by me already- just that flip chip issue heat it up fix)
It'd be nice to revive the Late 2009 iMac so I can use it as 2nd monitor where some tabs and menus will be there (it'll be too slow if say you had a pro 3D app and you placed all the panels and windows on one monitor and the 3D app you're working on is fullscreen at 5120 x 2880, maybe this is ok with 2D apps like video editing- hopefully that external GPU for Macs will be here soon and hopefully it Crossfire's with the built-in iMac GPU) as well as use the 2nd monitor for site browsing and videos in fullscreen (though I have an old beaten Windows XP laptop for that coz' it's best if you have a dedicated mouse on the play/pause button, you don't lose the app focus when switching between your pro app and the browser). They are always on computers (no hibernate just sleep which is the best, occasional restart though).
Thanks again. Have a great day. God bless. Proverbs 31
The mac color classic and LCIIIs were such sexy little machines....
I purchased a Color Classic II at a shop in Akihabara shortly after release. It was a great little machine.
This is a beautiful computer and a true cutie.
This was the first computer I had as a kid. We've sure come a long way
Fascination stuff would love to see more Macs like this if its happened.
macintosh color classic... sold only in white color
Thought the performa was a better machine
I owned one.. thank you for reviewing it
Damn, almost makes the several hundred dollar price tag worth it
I've always wanted a color classic since they came out. I had no idea people modified them. thanks for the video!
Japan carried early to mid 90s Apple
So what you're telling me is that they turn their Macs into PC's
Wasn’t the original iMac a compact Mac?
I saw “looks like a baby dinosaur” 🦖
This video was pretty documentary type! You should make one about the wonderswan or some other obscure console.
Actually, I covered the Neo Geo Pocket Color about six months ago: ruclips.net/video/sBNS6o7W2gM/видео.html
This style of video takes quite a while to put together, but I already have some ideas for future episodes.
Awesome machines, very hard to find though.
wow a mac u an upgrade those were the days
I have one of these but the hard drive died.
Wow, how long did it take you to research all of this information?
The actual research portion was easy -- I already knew all of it. Finding historical photos/video/Web sites was a bit more tricky, and I'm very thankful to those who let me use their work.
That's awesome!