Color Classic back from the dead!

Just found my Color Classic out in the garage under a bunch of shelving doing nothing. My plan is to bring this old beast back inside and get it running with some old software and post my progress!


NOTE: Image here is for illustration as my color classic looks nowhere near this good - it is yellowed and faded from age. Hopefully one of my steps will reverse this for the old beast!



Quick rundown of its current state;

• Upgraded with an LC-575 motherboard (much quicker!)
• 30mb RAM
• 500meg hard drive (spacious - considering the age etc.!)
• 640x480 upgrade (slice and dice the analog board - looking into improving this soon)

Goals:

1. Use the system for email.
2. Write blog posts from it.
3. Play old games from time to time.
4. Use Retr0brite on it to return it to it's original (non-yellow) color!
5. Control my linux server from an ssh connection using MacSSH.

Hopefully I'll have lots of screenshots and useful posts that others can use to set something like this up for themselves. I also plan to link to sites where I get most of the software, howto's etc.