Re: Welcome to Foster Farms!
=46ound what was apparently an LCIII in a dumpster (sort of) today. I saw the guy throw it in, so I went after it. :P snip In the top left of the board where it normally says Macintosh LCII it says Foster Farms snip What the hell is this thing? -- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex, Did you get any chicken with this? LOL I've been to Foster Farms in Modesto (fast food joint) btw. Much better than KFC. -- Randy OS X - UNIX for the rest of us NetBSD - I got it up and running! -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Welcome to Foster Farms!
=46ound what was apparently an LCIII in a dumpster (sort of) today. I saw the guy throw it in, so I went after it. :P snip In the top left of the board where it normally says Macintosh LCII it says Foster Farms snip What the hell is this thing? -- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex, Did you get any chicken with this? LOL I've been to Foster Farms in Modesto (fast food joint) btw. Much better than KFC. -- Randy OS X - UNIX for the rest of us NetBSD - I got it up and running! -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Welcome to Foster Farms!
Found what was apparently an LCIII in a dumpster (sort of) today. I saw the guy throw it in, so I went after it. :P I opened it up to see what treasures were inside. Turns out it is an LCII with an LCIII lid. It's a very odd LCII though. First of all, it's got an FPU socket where the solder pads normally are. On each of the four ROM chips, there is a sticker that reads: Foster Farms ROM 1.0F2 01/29/92 HH 99C583 Apple Confidential ©Apple 1983-92 In the top left of the board where it normally says Macintosh LCII it says Foster Farms On the bottom of the case where the label should be, there is an orange sticker that says: This device has not been approved by the Federal Communications Commision. [sic] This is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased until the approval of the FCC has been obtained. Also, the fan looks nonstandard, but I could be wrong about that. I haven't tried booting it up yet. It's got an 80MB HD, but no floppy. What the hell is this thing? -- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- * Please note new email address! * -- Visit EnigMac! Updated 07/29/2001 www.freehost.nu/members/enigmac/ -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Welcome to Foster Farms!
At 20:06 -0700 on 10/09/01, Alex Allee wrote: Found what was apparently an LCIII in a dumpster (sort of) today. I saw the guy throw it in, so I went after it. :P I opened it up to see what treasures were inside. Turns out it is an LCII with an LCIII lid. It's a very odd LCII though. First of all, it's got an FPU socket where the solder pads normally are. Apple probably did this to make things easier for testing and then dropped it once they finalised the design. It's easy enough to add one back in later if you have a normal LC II, so it's absolutely trivial to add one in the factory. On each of the four ROM chips, there is a sticker that reads: Foster Farms ROM 1.0F2 01/29/92 Final Release Candidate 2 of the LC II ROMs. HH 99C583 Apple Confidential ©Apple 1983-92 Apple developer prototype. In the top left of the board where it normally says Macintosh LCII it says Foster Farms Probably a code name for the LC II project. On the bottom of the case where the label should be, there is an orange sticker that says: This device has not been approved by the Federal Communications Commision. [sic] This is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased until the approval of the FCC has been obtained. Also typical of a prototype. p _ the pickle The FAQ http://macfaq.binhost.com/ The Archive http://www.jmug.org/software/thepickle/ _ -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Welcome to Foster Farms!
--- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found what was apparently an LCIII in a dumpster (sort of) today. I Clipped stuff about Foster Farms What the hell is this thing? Coolness! Sound like you found a pre-release developer's version LCII which for some reason has had the lid replaced with an LCIII lid. :) = The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the planets? Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ICQ# 16024947 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Welcome to Foster Farms!
Alex Allee wrote: Found what was apparently an LCIII in a dumpster (sort of) today. I saw the guy throw it in, so I went after it. :P I opened it up to see what treasures were inside. Turns out it is an LCII with an LCIII lid. It's a very odd LCII though. First of all, it's got an FPU socket where the solder pads normally are. On each of the four ROM chips, there is a sticker that reads: Foster Farms ROM 1.0F2 01/29/92 HH 99C583 Apple Confidential ©Apple 1983-92 In the top left of the board where it normally says Macintosh LCII it says Foster Farms On the bottom of the case where the label should be, there is an orange sticker that says: This device has not been approved by the Federal Communications Commision. [sic] This is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased until the approval of the FCC has been obtained. Also, the fan looks nonstandard, but I could be wrong about that. I haven't tried booting it up yet. It's got an 80MB HD, but no floppy. What the hell is this thing? It's just a prototype. I have the Beirut Fix 200MP prototype 9500 here as well as the SOMA 604. It's amazing what you can find at a garage sale. -- Kyle H. Hansen Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? --George W. Bush -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Welcome to Foster Farms!
Apple probably did this to make things easier for testing and then dropped it once they finalised the design. It's easy enough to add one back in later if you have a normal LC II, so it's absolutely trivial to add one in the factory. Final Release Candidate 2 of the LC II ROMs. Apple developer prototype. Probably a code name for the LC II project. Yeah, Foster Farms is the LCII codename. Also typical of a prototype. That's what I suspected, but wow, how cool. I'm really on a roll with the rare/odd stuff. (First the AE HD+, now this) What's next, White PowerBook 170? Clear 128k? Ok, probably not. :) BTW, I tried booting it a minute ago. No go. Question mark. Oh well, I'll have to fiddle with it this weekend. Maybe the hard drive's full of top secret Apple stuff. :) I am also struck with how clean the unit is. It is flawless. Not a speck of dust on the whole logic board. Not even any dust caked onto the fan. The only fingerprints that I can find on the aluminum sheeting is under where the floppy drive is supposed to be. (And those are probably mine) -- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- * Please note new email address! * -- Visit EnigMac! Updated 07/29/2001 www.freehost.nu/members/enigmac/ -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Vintage Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.binhost.com/ Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
