Compgeke
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Decided to hit up the flea market today and I suppose it paid off. Managed to pick up a Mac IIsi for $20 and a Mac II with a IIfx upgrade board for $40.
I'll start with the IIfx since it's the more interesting of the machine. This machine started life back in 1988 as a plain Macintosh II.
Around 1993 or so it was upgraded though, this time to a Macintosh IIfx.
None of the expansions are particularly exciting. Toby video card, Asante 10 Mb ethernet.
Got a whole 16 megs ram. Nothing insane, but better than 4 MB or so you'd get stock.
I never realized a IIfx ROM SIMM was an off the shelf thing, funky.
Got me a 250 meg Quantum hard drive. Not original drive for sure, but hey, it's still working. I give it a week.
And finally, it works! Full 40 MHz 68040 and 68882.
Next let's move onto the IIsi...
This one's not as fun. It's just a plain Mac IIsi. It's in reasonably good nick though, a little yellowed but no scratches\gouges\cracks in the case.
You may notice that network card. Asante Maccon 30ie. This is one that should work in an SE/30 no problem. More than worth the $20 I paid for the machine.
16 megs ram. Not bad. Has the GALs for...oh man, I forget which Mac needed the ram with the GALs to use 4 meg sticks.
170 meg hard drive. Not original for sure, but still working. Sounds...like a Quantum, I give it about 4 days less life than the IIfx's drive.
Believe it or not, it works! The thing really really badly needs a recap. I shut it off after a couple minutes, started to smell those caps.
Overall, not upset for $60. The network card alone in the IIsi is worth that. Throw in these with the $40 Nikon 50 f/1.8G and, $10 Manfrotto 3221 and a $5 Apple 60W USB C brick and I came out pretty good today.
I'll start with the IIfx since it's the more interesting of the machine. This machine started life back in 1988 as a plain Macintosh II.
Around 1993 or so it was upgraded though, this time to a Macintosh IIfx.
None of the expansions are particularly exciting. Toby video card, Asante 10 Mb ethernet.
Got a whole 16 megs ram. Nothing insane, but better than 4 MB or so you'd get stock.
I never realized a IIfx ROM SIMM was an off the shelf thing, funky.
Got me a 250 meg Quantum hard drive. Not original drive for sure, but hey, it's still working. I give it a week.
And finally, it works! Full 40 MHz 68040 and 68882.
Next let's move onto the IIsi...
This one's not as fun. It's just a plain Mac IIsi. It's in reasonably good nick though, a little yellowed but no scratches\gouges\cracks in the case.
You may notice that network card. Asante Maccon 30ie. This is one that should work in an SE/30 no problem. More than worth the $20 I paid for the machine.
16 megs ram. Not bad. Has the GALs for...oh man, I forget which Mac needed the ram with the GALs to use 4 meg sticks.
170 meg hard drive. Not original for sure, but still working. Sounds...like a Quantum, I give it about 4 days less life than the IIfx's drive.
Believe it or not, it works! The thing really really badly needs a recap. I shut it off after a couple minutes, started to smell those caps.
Overall, not upset for $60. The network card alone in the IIsi is worth that. Throw in these with the $40 Nikon 50 f/1.8G and, $10 Manfrotto 3221 and a $5 Apple 60W USB C brick and I came out pretty good today.
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