When mentioning this to the eBayer who sold me the board, he suggested my ADB keyboard or cable might be bad and the Mac wasn’t getting the power up command from the power button on the keyboard itself.
A faint whine from the unit, but no other chime or activity.īummer. I put in the new board, turned on the power switch at the rear of the machine, and… nothing. The designers of the Mac Mini should be forced to learn from these systems. The Color Classic, like the Performa 6400 & PowerMac 6500, has a wonderful slide out logic board design: remove a rear case panel and just pull the whole unit out. As part of the arrangement I sent my old non-working board to the seller for him to repair and resell, so a good deal for us both. After losing a few auctions to last minute eBay “snipers” (I really hate this tactic), I found another board listed with a Submit Offer and arranged to purchase it for a fair price.
Working Color Classics sell for about $300 on eBay, but logic and power supply boards sell for around $100 each. Recently I decided it would be cool to see if I could get things running, but I didn’t want to spend too much money on the task. Still having lots to do with my move I put the Mac on a closet shelf and let it sit for a few more years. The logic board was corroded and missing a few pieces. The unit did not work, it had been sitting for too long in a salty humid environment. I had recently bought a house and she knew I collected old Macs, so she bought the system for me as a housewarming gift. After a four year on-and-off process (mostly off), I finally have a working model in the Vintage Mac Museum, though it took some effort to resurrect.īack in 2008 a friend of mine found a Color Classic sitting unloved in an antique shop down in Florida. Why would anyone want an underpowered machine with such a small screen?įast forward twenty years and this little underpowered Mac has become a pleasant reminder of simpler times past. Putting a color screen into the original compact Mac case always seemed an obvious step, but by the time this model was released in 1993 the Mac II line had been out for several years and Apple was beginning to ship the Quadra/Centris 68040 based systems. The Color Classic is one of those Mac models which I remember appreciating when it was current but didn’t feel it was worth the money.
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