Macintosh LC II (OUT)

Performa

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As part of our October 2021 haul, any members registered before the initial posting are welcome to this item on a first-come, first-serve basis. All items located in Stevens Point. Post below to grab it!

This is a project machine, or more likely for parts. The victim of a burst battery, it was spared the worst of it as the previous owner had stored it upside down. That said, the road ahead of it to functionality is likely a difficult one. This unit is being offered as-is, or as parts. The hard drive, floppy drive, cables, ROM SIMM, power supply, speaker, fan, and many chips are unaffected or minimally affected by the corrosion. While the RF shielding has taken a beating, the plastics are still in excellent cosmetic shape as well. Reach out here if interested in either the unit as a whole, or if you'd like parts pulled out of it for you with the corroded bits recycled.

If there is no interest in this unit by November 1st, 2021, it will be broken down and recycled. Rest assured the WCC will pull any parts I feel can be salvaged out of it, including the plastic shell. Insert obligatory "curses to the battery manufacturers" statement here.











 
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MattPilz

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I have three Classic Macs (or similar), two PowerMacs and one Packard Bell that suffered the exact same fate before I got a hold of them to get the batteries out. I have concern over one IIGS that I am currently unable to get to in a box that I don't think ever had the battery removed either. It seems not many engineers of the 80s and early-90s anticipated the devastation batteries could have long-term.
 

Performa

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I have three Classic Macs (or similar), two PowerMacs and one Packard Bell that suffered the exact same fate before I got a hold of them to get the batteries out. I have concern over one IIGS that I am currently unable to get to in a box that I don't think ever had the battery removed either. It seems not many engineers of the 80s and early-90s anticipated the devastation batteries could have long-term.
I suppose most of them never thought the things they were designing would still be in any sort of use in the 2020's. Still, I'm stunned that Apple stuck with the lithium batteries as long as they did after PC switched over to coin cell batteries. They were still using these as late as the G4 series, which is just crazy to me.
 
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