April 3, 1995: Apple introduces the Macintosh LC 580, an affordable computer offering good multimedia capabilities on a budget. It quickly proves popular in the educational market. If you used a Mac ...

June 28, 1993: Apple ships the Macintosh LC 520, an “all-in-one” Mac targeted primarily at the education market. The first Macintosh ever shipped with a non-optional 2x CD-ROM drive, it is designed to ...

One of the notable side-effects of the very inexorability of technology’s progress is that while in the abstract we know that computers used to be more primitive in the past, it’s only when you ...

It might just be a case mod, but we love [Eduard]’s take on a modern Macintosh LC (translation). The donor motherboard came from a disused home server, and the LC came from [Eduard]’s childhood ...

There can be few among those of us who produce printed circuit boards, who have not at some point placed a component the wrong way round, or with the wrong footprint. Usually this can be rectified ...

Software developer Doug Brown took the computer apart and discovered that Apple had installed the capacitors in the wrong direction in its 'pizza box' Macintosh LC III computer. Downtown Doug Brown » ...

Forty years. In the world of technology, where many devices seem to evaporate after only a matter of months, lasting for a decade is an accomplishment—but four of them? It’s nearly unheard of. And yet ...

“Am I the first person to discover this?” is a tricky question when it comes to classic Macs, some of the most pored-over devices on the planet. But there’s a lot to suggest that user paul.gaastra, on ...

Multi-platform solutions are increasingly necessary in this modern era of multi-vendor networks and client/server computing. For many users, their "dream machine" would combine a DOS/Windows PC and a ...

I use an old LC III that I found at a garage sale, which I upraded to a 2gb Quantum Fireball hard drive from the original 80mb Apple. I partitioned it with Lido 7 (rather than the hacked Disk Utility ...