The Macintosh Color Classic was introduced in 1993. It was the first compact mac to have a color CRT built-in. It also included a single LC PDS expansion slot.
The Color Classic has seen many in-depth mods done to it to improve performance, including the "Mystic" mod, which involves a screen resolution upgrade and a new logic board from an LC 575.
A few months later, the Color Classic II was introuduced with the same logic board as the Mac LC 550. This model was only sold in mainly Japan and Canada, making it reasonable rare nowadays.
You can put up to 10MB of RAM in a Mac Color Classic (Up to 36MB in a CCII), installed in 2 30-pin SIMM slots. (1 72-pin SIMM slot for the CCII)
See our page on SCSI Solid State Devices for more info.
Color Classic users in the 1990s discovered that the logic board for the much faster, 68040-equipped, Mac LC 575 was pin-compatible with the color classic. This, along with a display mod that allowed a full 640x480 resolution to be displayed on the internal CRT created the "Mystic" mod, named after the cancelled Color Classic III. This remains a common upgrade today, as many people love the CC's form factor, but dislike its slow performance.
Similar to the Mystic mod, the Takky mod pushes the CC even further with a PowerPC logic board upgrade. (More research needed--Unfinished).
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