thanks to @billgoats and @paulrickards this LC 475 is going for its first flight in over 20 years.
i rescued this fella last summer from a retired junior high school teacher who himself rescued it from his former mac lab in the mid 1990s. you can even see the old asset tag for Parkland School Division which I will leave on for historical value :) this was workstation #8 in his class
the LC 475 was the “education market” version of the same model of Performa. it has a speedy 68040 which I’ve never used before
for this year’s marchintosh - the first i’ve participated in! - i will be turning the ol gal into a WAN AppleTalk network router, and FirstClass BBS node :D
@vga256 Crafty cruftiness from the early days. Using the byte to keep a pair of BCD values meant the date could be held in 3 bytes and if the machine was adept with BCD (and the 68K has instructions for such packed BCD) it was pretty quick to manipulate in that form. So it was a multi-dimensioned trade-off. Not the best for anything but about the best considering everything. At the time :)
@vga256 Ooh, neat! :D I miss FirstClass, was thinking about it recently actually. I have a Quadra 605 I should get up and running soon, which I think is the same machine as that one.
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