Restoring and Upgrading a Mac from 1993!

my Quadra 605 has a 64mb ran ram simm and a scsitosd adapter

My middle school had both the Macintosh Quadra and LC models, they even got external CD and Zip drives in the lab. Played lot of games like Dr Quandary, Carmen Sandiego, Mavis Beacon on those Macs!

Good work on the upgrades (minus the brittle plastic, of course) 😕. Seems like more people are done trying to be period correct especially with hard drives.

-veryNiceVIDEO. There were at the time some processor upgrades for this machine. Isnt it? PPC or a better 68k. That old mac days.

Outstanding and amazing brother I really enjoy watching your videos and that Apple 🍎 a real classic keep doing more videos.

I did the 33MHz mod on mine - definitely worth doing for the 10 to 15 minutes it takes. Also - the PPC Upgrade for these is killer - they run at double the bus speed, so if you increase the bus, you increase the PPC card speed as well - all the CPU's i've encountered on those are 75MHz versions, so you could even do a bus mod for 37.5MHz with the spicy o'clock to get it to run at that speed, whilst still keeping the serial ports working properly.

In 1993 i was in 3rd grade and i remember using that computer in class. 😆

Love this!

Love your channel! Best of luck!

Hi There my name is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris, how have you been Keeping up to Lately, I was wondering if you need to do the other way round Lyrics in you’re own word Lyrics but sing it differently in the original Extended background Versions of those Particular song’s By Andrew Gold and The Korgis, Never Let her Slip Away and Everybody got to learn Sometime, why don’t they just Replace the Synthesizer String Sound to a Two Musette Accordion’s sounds and make this Musette sounds for the Two Accordion’s 4 to 7 and a half times more Deeper then the Original Synthesizer String Sound that they have this Particular song called Everybody’s got to Learn sometime and also Replace the Xylophone Sound to a 21 Times More Deeper Chime Bell or Even a 26 Times More Deeper Still Drum Sound, Because it is Still one of my Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Favorite Song’s Ever Since I was about 10 Years of Age Thank You and I Like 👍 you’re Remixing and make you’re singing 5 and a half times more Deeper XX

I don’t understand why you maxed out the internals but downgraded the OS.

We had LCIIs in my elementary school computer lab. They were pretty neat.

I had this computer !

This ain't retro. I had the very first first 512 K models in 1984. This is new compared to the original Macs.

605's will actually accept 128mb RAM modules. I fed my old one an old server 128mb 36bit ECC SIMM with the 4 bit parity bits out of an old PPro and it just ignored it and saw 128mb + 4mb RAM.

why don't you retrobright it :'((((

I have a Mac Quadra 605. Cute little machine I kept for myself.

Does anyone else think old Mac desktops look better than any recent offering? This slim line model could easily fit the latest chipsets and motherboards with room to spare.

I believe this was one of the machines I was scouting out in 1994. I was about to graduate as a graphic designer and needed a suitable Mac that I could afford. I had settled on a Centris 610 only to have it be discontinued. Moved on to thinking a Quadra 605 would be in my future, but nope: The PowerMacs were being introduced and I got me a bare bone PowerMac 6100 with 8MB of RAM, 160MB HD, no CD-ROM or L2 cache, that 14" Apple monitor shown in this video, as well as an Apple Personal LaserWriter 320.

Hello, i have a Performa 475, i have repaired the power supply, but when i turn on, the "Chime" sounds distorted, some buzz. I have recap the solid capacitors from motherboard but the problem persists. Know you the problem? Thanks.

Wow, magic of ancestors..

Some years ago, I worked in education and I upgraded the LC475 as much as I could to fulfil my duties as an IT technician.

Sadly, I fell ill and was off work for almost a year. During that time, the small horde of classic Macs I had accumulated were dispatched to the recyclers, at the instruction of a disgruntled head of faculty with an axe to grind.

A few years ago, I picked up another LC475 and I have also tried to upgrade it to enjoy many of the programs I used back in the 90’s.

When they were clearing out all of the old Mac hardware and software that remained, I got first dibs on many original installation disks. There are hundreds of them, still boxed.

I hope to return to the LC475 and do a proper job to retrobrite it. I’ve already replaced the logic board caps and the PSU caps and added a SCSI2SD unit to it. I’m thinking I could make a bracket for a full SD card like yours. I managed to source filament that closely matches the platinum Mac colour, from Germany.

i have a fully working 250 MB SCSI hard disk from Quantum (1993)

My first computer :) I bought it at CompUSA...

Restoring and upgrading vintage computers like the Mac from 1993 is a fascinating way to learn about the evolution of technology. It's impressive to see how skilled enthusiasts can breathe new life into old machines and preserve their historical significance. This video is a great example of the passion and expertise that goes into this process.

Do you like yellow computers?

I remember the LC’s in computer lab in elementary school

My first Macintosh was a second hand Performa 460 in 1996 that I was able to get to 20MB of RAM and maxed out VRAM, I think it had the 80MB drive in it. That computer was a workhorse for me until 2000 when I updated it with a beige box G3. Since then I have always had a Mac as an available computer.

SUNY Potsdam! I’ve been there 😂🤘

I have an LC475 with the memory upgraded to 20MB, 1GB HD, a network expansion card with BNC connectors, the external CD drive, the monitor, the keyboard, the mouse and a stylewriter II printer. I just checked, and although the battery was in place, there are no sign of leakage. I wonder if it still boots up? 😅

How does virtual memory work with a modern flash-based drive?

I think it's crazy how just 2 years after this was released, the lowest end mac used a 66mhz power pc chip that's nearly 3x the clock speed, and able to do several times the work per clock. The rate of technological advancement has slown down so much since then, no more do we see 5x improvements in 2 years, which is both a good and bad thing, it means you can keep a pc longer, but it also means power users have to wait longer for faster chips.

It is always a fun time whenever a Mac finds its way into my fleet of computers. Of all the non-windows devices I have encountered, it is by far the most common, the other two being a single Alpha workstation and a wireless router with OpenWRT preinstalled(and yes I do consider OpenWRT to be a "computer", albeit a somewhat limited one, because I have used one to run a web/file server).

Which software do you keep on your BlueSCSI standard support disk image?

This was my first Mac… I bought it at Sam ash in nyc when it came out… I even updated it to 16 bit color😂😂😂😂

This was the first color mac my family got new. It was the first computer I had that I burned a CD on (took 20mins), and also got on the internet (with a 9600 baud modem). I also remember getting a new hard drive, and I thought at the time “I’ll never fill this up” -it was 1GB. Ha. Soon, I discovered Napster, and I quickly realized 1GB isn’t that big. Overall, the 605 was good initially, but it aged quickly with its small RAM upgrade options. I remember it crashed…a TON, and was slow due to virtual memory. Thanks for the nostalgia!

ohhh, memories come back, the LCIII was the first Macintosh computer in our company. Later Power PCs. My LCIII with 21" monitor was in use from 1994 to the 2000s because we used LabView to control our systems. It was a nice computer for its time and I liked it better than the Intels under Windows.

soldering resistors is easy to undo as well... just solder htem back on...

Where can I buy these extensions?

My first Mac :)

You should do the clock boost to 33 MHz by moving the 2 SMT resistors. It’s not difficult and results in a good performance boost. Mine was very stable.

That Firstech photo was a throwback for me. I can’t tell you the tens of thousands of dollars I’ve spent at that store for work years ago.

The 605 is a great Marathon multiplayer gaming rig. just add the 10Mbs ethernet card

escape velocity!

I also got a Quadra 605 from a family friend

Hello, I have been trying to restore a Mac LC and ran across two parts computers. The motherboards are both intake, but I feel need recapping. However, there is a different between the two boards. One has what I would say is a red reset button, the other does not. Is one better than the other?

I wanted one of those só much when it was released, but neve got one

改造ができるのがうらやましいです
私もQuadra605が大好きですよ
昨日FDDが壊れて、外す時に爪が割れて泣きました