2X Mac IIcis and A bunch of other stuff.

[Mars478]

Hey guys! A guy on Freecycle is shipping this to me.

-- 2 Mac IIci's -- both have the motherboards, cache card, hard drive, internal 3.5" drive ... but I moved all the RAM, the better cache card, the video card (a Radius something-er-other), and the 10bT network card to one machine with the larger hard drive, so the other is basically a spare-parts repository.

If you end up using the hard drives, kindly erase my old files. I don't have a monitor that works with it, so wasn't able to confirm what's on it...

-- 1 Extended Keyboard II, ADB, with cables & mouse.

-- 1 SCSI CD drive

-- 1 SCSI Bernoulli drive

-- 1 USB Zip drive + USB-ADB converter

-- 1 Calcomp digitizer tablet

-- 1 modem

-- misc cables, power supplies, & SCSI terminator.

-- 3.5" discs with system installers, utilities, etc. (I forget if it's system 6 or 7 installer discs... but i'm sure the system software on the hard drive was the most up-to-date as of whenever I last used it.)

YEAH!!!

 

[LCGuy]

Nice score. Just please, whatever you do, make sure you do end up erasing his old files, without reading them. There's no need to give us vintage Mac enthusiasts a bad name (and make things harder for us by giving people a reason to not give/sell us their machines) by reading donated data.

 

[JRL]

Wow, nice. :O

I'm still struggling to get my Macintosh IIci motherboard working lolz.

 

[Mars478]

Yeah, I REALLY don't want to read his files. I'll probably just wipe the HDs With the installers that came with them.

Also, Whats a Bernoulli Drive?

 

[LCGuy]

It was one of the removable storage systems that were all the rage at the time. Back around 1993 there were two main competitors: SyQuest, with their 44 and 88MB disks and drives, and Iomega, with their Bernoulli drives. From what I've read, Bernoulli drives were the better technology, as they were more reliable and durable, but they were also a lot more expensive.

Just whatever you do...just make sure you get the drivers for the Bernoulli drive and the graphics tablet off the HDD before you format it. Its ok to get software off old hard drives, especially since in this case you'll need it to use some of the peripherals (which may or may not still have the driver disks with them)...just as long as you don't keep any user-created data.

 

[protocol7]

I had to look em up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iomega_Bernoulli_Box

Like an early zip disk pretty much.

 

[Mars478]

I am really excited to use my ADB mouse with my eMac.

Are Bernoulli drives rare? Do you guys want me to put the driver on here for you?

 

[LCGuy]

I'd imagine they are...I know they cost an absolute bomb back in the day, and I haven't seen much discussion about them on here.

 

[protocol7]

I think it would be a good idea to share the driver alright.

I did some digging around and managed to find what I think was the last driver release from Iomega (they've changed their site since and I can't find the driver link).

http://www.freestuffandmoney.com/forsale/drivers.html

It's the fourth line down, use the local copy download link. There's also instructions on getting MacOS to recognise and install the driver. It might be newer than the copy you have.

 

[Mars478]

I will share the driver, and Will document the Bernoulli. What is this Radius card the dude talks about in the IIci with the better cache card and bigger hard drive?

Against the shippers description I DO plan to get them both working. One will go to my country house and the other stay in NYC with me. There will be no glorified parts machine! }

 

[Mars478]

They are set to be delivered today, and they are in transit a few miles away from my town.

Track it with me

http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/processRequest?HTMLVersion=5.0&Requester=NES&AgreeToTermsAndConditions=yes&loc=en_US&tracknum=1ZY73T000390024011

[EDIT] The shipper runs a design firm. Thats why there is all this expensive gear.

 

[LCGuy]

http://www.freestuffandmoney.com/forsale/drivers.html

Off-topic, but am I the only person here who finds it amusing that Gateway made a utility called, of all things, the "Any Key Utility"? :lol:

 

[Mars478]

Wait What? I don't get it. :?:

 

[protocol7]

Off-topic, but am I the only person here who finds it amusing that Gateway made a utility called, of all things, the "Any Key Utility"? :lol:

LOL, good catch!

(hint: think skeleton key for gates)

 

[Mars478]

UPS Says its been delivered, I am not there at the moment and will be heading out for there at 6:00, Updates SOON!!!

So hyped.

 

[Mars478]

OK, got em. Both are pretty beat up but nothing a TLC cant fix. There are these weird Ram things, which hold to SIMMS per card. It reads "SIMM Extender Ver 3, Princeton Manfact."

One of the Hard Drive caddys in one of them is popped up, and the case won't shut. They both power up. Don't have a display connected. One has a SUPER long Radius Color card. It reads : Radius DIR Color GX

The "ADB to USB" is actually Serial to USB... Dont know a use for this. The bernoulli and CD power up perfectly. The CD is by Power User.

The Calcomp tablet has no Pen..

Updates and vid+ pic soon.

 

[protocol7]

Looking forward to those pics!

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

A little historical memoir:

The Bernoulii wasn't really all that rare and was actually a slightly better technology than Syquest's. But by being first out of the gate, Syquest's drives were adopted, nearly exclusively, at the very beginning of the "service bureau" era and the resulting economies of scale allowed Syquest to undercut Iomega's Bernoulli pricing.

The Bernoulli principal is what "gets and keeps airplanes up in the air." In the case of the Iomega Bernoulli drives, it kept the read/write heads from ever touching the surface of the lighter, more flexible media, much like the way "ground effect" sometimes makes it difficult to set a plane down onto the tarmac.

When combined with a smaller 3.5" form factor and the "Optical" indexing from "Floptical" drives: the ZIP drive was born. It was revolutionary in concept and leapfrogged Syquest's more mundane "Winchester" Disk (AKA: run of the mill hard drive platter) in a portable cartridge concept . . .

. . . and thereby blew those monopolizing, arrogant pissants at Syquest right out of the water! :lol:

more than cantankerous old coot mode>

I said memoir, because the ole'noggin isn't fully back on line as yet . . . :I . . . so feel free to contradict me!

jt: the old coot with more experience in the realm of funky peripherals than you can shake a memory stick at! :-x

 

[LCGuy]

The Bernoulii wasn't really all that rare and was actually a slightly better technology than Syquest's.

Yeah - I've got the 2nd edition of Macs for Dummies, where David Pogue discusses the SyQuest vs Bernoulli issue, and he was saying that "you'll hear all the time about SyQuest disks going bad, but you'll never hear of a Bernoulli going bad", but I think he did also point out that because of their expense in comparison to SyQuest drives, they didn't catch on as much.