equill
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A friend's adult sons were recently setting up a joint ménage. For whatever reason, one result was that they had/found three surplus 68K Macs: a Classic, a Colour Classic and an LC III. My friend offered them to me, together with some cables, a StyleWriter II, a couple of M2706 ADB mouses, an A9M0331 (ADB) mouse and an A2M2070 Apple IIe mouse.
I haven't assessed anything for workability but the CC, so far. It was a later (October 1993) production than any of my other three CCs, with no CUDA switch on the logic board, in fine condition (even the dust bunnies were in good shape), but with a dead 80MB Quantum drive. Stock RAM and VRAM, and no FPU or ethernet card. I relieved the LC III of its 250MB drive, which was completely unwiped, and showed that that Mac had, back in the late '90s, belonged to a Year 5 girl in one of Sydney's silvertail areas. Now cleaned (although a little yellowed), it also has its 10MB max. of RAM, another 256kB of VRAM, an Apple 10Base-T LC PDS card, System 7.5 and a little smile of self-satisfaction.
The point of all this intro. is to mention that the acquisition prompted me to go over all my CCs, in the course of which I found an Extreme Systems Impact 68030/32MHz accelerator card that my database tells me that I bought on eBay in early 2004. It wasn't accelerating the Performa 250 into which I had forgotten that I had installed it at all, because the driver wasn't also installed. So I downloaded the driver ExSysLC1.22.sit only to find that none of the UnStuffIts from v2.0, 5.0 or 5.5 will decompress the file. The apps all just disappear into the ether briefly, then return to this planet without doing anything. Does any one of you know of an effective source for the driver, please?
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PS (later): Ditto with Expander 6 and 7, which I tried on the offchance that the driver had been compressed only recently.
I haven't assessed anything for workability but the CC, so far. It was a later (October 1993) production than any of my other three CCs, with no CUDA switch on the logic board, in fine condition (even the dust bunnies were in good shape), but with a dead 80MB Quantum drive. Stock RAM and VRAM, and no FPU or ethernet card. I relieved the LC III of its 250MB drive, which was completely unwiped, and showed that that Mac had, back in the late '90s, belonged to a Year 5 girl in one of Sydney's silvertail areas. Now cleaned (although a little yellowed), it also has its 10MB max. of RAM, another 256kB of VRAM, an Apple 10Base-T LC PDS card, System 7.5 and a little smile of self-satisfaction.
The point of all this intro. is to mention that the acquisition prompted me to go over all my CCs, in the course of which I found an Extreme Systems Impact 68030/32MHz accelerator card that my database tells me that I bought on eBay in early 2004. It wasn't accelerating the Performa 250 into which I had forgotten that I had installed it at all, because the driver wasn't also installed. So I downloaded the driver ExSysLC1.22.sit only to find that none of the UnStuffIts from v2.0, 5.0 or 5.5 will decompress the file. The apps all just disappear into the ether briefly, then return to this planet without doing anything. Does any one of you know of an effective source for the driver, please?
de
PS (later): Ditto with Expander 6 and 7, which I tried on the offchance that the driver had been compressed only recently.
