Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Take your painfully slow Macintosh Color Classic (CC) to an all new level of performance! In this 2nd CC video, I gut a Mac LC575 to make a cute little CC up to 5 times faster.

🙏 SPECIAL THANKS to Kay Koba in Tokyo who offers me so much free and very useful advice! Check out his fabulous vintage Mac goodies for sale in the following forum thread, including the ROM-inator, BlueSCSI, Spicy O'Clock overclocker, floppy drive gears and more:
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/keros-mac-mods-store-descriptions.192
• Kay's Blog is here: bit.ly/4kI6GjN

🔎 INDEX
0:00 — Intro
0:47 — LC575 Back Panel, MB Removal
4:18 — LC575 Motherboard Overview
7:10 — CC Back Panel, MB Swap & Boot
11:37 — MacBench 3
16:05 — Speedometer 4.01
19:30 — Norton System Info 3.5.3
20:36 — Canvas & Photoshop
22:40 — What to do with LC575 body?
26:15 — Closing Words

🛠️ TOOLS TO BUY
• Anti-static pad, Wrist Strap & 3-prong Outlet Grounding Adapter: amzn.to/2SOm1nK
• Torx T15 with LONG neck (to open vintage Macs): amzn.to/3qLyJYb
• Goot brand 6pc CRT Adjustment Tool kit (Amazon Japan): amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B0036RJ5GE
• 6pc CRT Adjustment Tool kit (Amazon USA): amzn.to/3jojfmD
NOTE: I've not used this kit, but it seems like a very similar version, but perhaps a slightly lesser quality, of the Goot kit I bought on Amazon.
• 9pc CRT Adjustment Tool kit (Amazon USA): amzn.to/3vg8ZBB
NOTE: Quality of this kit seems on par with my Goot kit, but comes at a higher price than the 6pc kit.
📷 CAMERA, LENSES & SD CARD USED TO MAKE THIS VIDEO
• Panasonic GH5: amzn.to/3kDDqgE
• Olympus 12-100mm F4: amzn.to/3FgZaqI
• Olympus 40-150mm F2.8: amzn.to/3ozhu7z
• Sony Tough 128GB V60 SD: amzn.to/3oqNr20
💵 Your price on Amazon (US) is the same even if you don't click the Affiliate links above, but if you do click & purchase within 24 hours, Amazon may pay me a small commission.

📚 REFERENCE
• Mystic Hacks/Mods Clarified: bit.ly/3VAm9qK
• Takky father, Takashi Imai, explains Mystic architecture: bit.ly/4ihH8Zd
• Color Classic Service Guide: bit.ly/3j6fCBz
• HDD inside my CC: XP34550S Quantum Atlas II 4.5GB 7200RPM

💾 SOFTWARE
• System Enabler 065 v1.1 to boot from LC575 MB into System 7.1†: bit.ly/41SPb99
• System Enabler 401 to boot CC stock MB into System 7.1†: macintoshgarden.org/apps/apple-system-enablers
• System 7.1: macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-71
• MacBench 3: macintoshgarden.org/apps/macbench-30
• Speedometer 4: macintoshgarden.org/apps/speedometer-402
• Norton Utilities 3.5.3: macintoshgarden.org/apps/norton-utilities-353
• Canvas 3.5: macintoshgarden.org/apps/canvas-354
• Photoshop 4.0: macintoshgarden.org/apps/adobe-photoshop-40
• JPEGview (view Jpg & Tiff files Full Screen): macintoshgarden.org/apps/jpegview

† System enablers not needed for System 7.5.5, but the following ResEdit hack is required when using the LC575 motherboard in the CC if and only if you don't do the 640x480 hardware modification: tinyurl.com/4aprxxzc


🙏 I wish to thank Juan José Vélez, Thomas Larsen and others at the Vintage Apple Macintosh Enthusiasts FaceBook group for kindly allowing me to show their destroyed-during-shipping Macs at 25 min. 19 sec. in this video. Juan and Thomas allowed me to mention their names here in the text description. The short video clip of a delivery man thoughtlessly throwing a boxed Mac onto a porch is also publicly displayed on the original poster's Twitter page too, which is why I included it (it had been shown in public on Twitter outside the FB group as of the time of this writing), but I couldn't get a reply back from the original poster, so I do not display the poster's name or Twitter URL. There's an expectation of privacy in private FB groups, and I've sought to respect that while also crediting those who were happy to have their names displayed here. No infringement or disruption to privacy was intended. Simply put, it's terribly unfortunate how old Macs are treated during shipping, even when they are packed reasonably well.

🙏 SINCERE & HUMBLE THANKS TO THESE AMAZING PAYPAL SUPPORTERS!
• Mauro Acciaccaferri (generous monthly contributor)
• Attila Fehérvári (I hope to review Attila's 68k utility app in a future video!)

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