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Macintosh LC 520 (Acquistion # 063)
🕑 Added 2022-05-02 05:27:13 +0000 UTCPurchased from "BOB" in Sarnia for $25 Sept 5, 2005. For whatever reason, this was a model I really wanted to get at the time that the ad happened to pop-up. I contacted BOB and went to pick it up. BOB was underneath his truck working on something when I arrived, with a bunch of his friends standing around the truck. About the point I walked up, BOB cut his hand open. He came up from under the truck bleeding badly, saw me and said, "Go inside, my mom will show you the computer. I got to go to the hospital." I wished him well. The computer was in really nice shape. I told his mom that I didn't need to see it power-on, and that her son is going to the hospital.
- Keyboard II and Mouse II (nice shape)
- Ethernet installed
- 2x CD-ROM, but needs caddy
- 36MB RAM, 160MB HD (max memory)
- System 7.6.1
- Software: Netscape Communicator, The Writing Center, ClarisWorks 4.0, Filemaker Pro 3.0, MacLinkPlus 8.1, SAM (antivirus), Hypercard Player 2.1. Education network apps: EnterNet 300 and First Class Intranet
1. Hardly any yellowing, Keyboard and Mouse look barely used. The LC began to yellow in my basement, however, due to moisture.
2. Floppy drive had weak ejection at first, but improved with use.
3. The picture in Wikipedia for the LC 500 series was terrible, so in May 2006, I took a picture on my deck and replaced it. The author of the Wikipedia entry thanked me for the better picture. Years later, someone blacked-out the reflection of the sky in the CRT, which was fine with me. By this time, the picture had spread all over the internet. In the Quadra 800 video, I made fun of the fact that a company in China had copyrighted it.
4. In 2012 disasembled. Very clean inside. Yellowing between back and bezel was quite different where bezel was more yellowed. Retrobrighted.
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The following week I noticed that BOB was back at it, posting thrift store and roadside finds. And yes, there was no going into BOB's shed. lol
Corbin Johnson
I hope bob was ok. At least he didn’t show you to his shed.
