Liberation of a new IIci

[IIsi]

I liberated a IIci this weekend, with 32k cache card and 32 MB ram, 80MB HDD. The machine was almost brand new. It was owned by some rich dude who never used it, it had a few word processing docs on it and that's it. It's been in a box unused since 1993. It came with a set of system 7.5 floppies, which I may install at some point. For now, I tossed a 350MB clone of my IIsi drive in it with OS 7.6.1, and played Marathon on it for a few hours. Delicious. It also came with the original System 7.5 boxes and manuals, and a GeoPort Modem. I should have asked this before in other threads, but when we get something new like this, are we supposed to post pics of it on here?

 

[gobabushka]

u dont have 2...

 

[Bunsen]

There are no rules here apart from the usual ones about playing nice on the forums.

Pictures are entirely optional, but certainly welcome, especially when a score is particularly special, clean, pristine or unusual.

Depends how much you feel like it deserves showing off, really [] ]'>

 

[IIsi]

Actually, to hijack my own thread for a bit, does anyone know whether, on the RBV/MDU based Macs like the IIsi and IIci, if I add a NUBUS video card, can I still use the RBV built in video? Will I have dual monitor support then?

 

[LCGuy]

Yes, and yes.

ANY Mac with a NuBus, PDS, PCI, PCI-X or PCIe expansion slot will allow the use of an extended desktop once you have an extra video card installed.

 

[macgreg]

Nice conquest - the IIci is my favourite Mac.

32MB of RAM makes this a very nice 68K box.

Congrats! [] ]'>

 

[IIsi]

Nice conquest - the IIci is my favourite Mac.32MB of RAM makes this a very nice 68K box.

Congrats! [] ]'>

I like the IIci, it seems to be a faster IIsi! I would like to bring my IIsi up to speed though, with a 25 Mhz cpu clock, and maybe see if I can hack a IIci cache card in there.

 

[MacMan]

I like the IIci, it seems to be a faster IIsi! I would like to bring my IIsi up to speed though, with a 25 Mhz cpu clock, and maybe see if I can hack a IIci cache card in there.

That is exactly what it is. The IIci represented the high end of the market at the time and when the IIsi was introduced later, Apple throttled the processor speed back to 20MHz so that the IIsi didn't eat into the IIci's market base.

The IIci is certainly a decent 68K and is wonderfully easy to get into for installing cards etc.

 

[IIsi]

I like the IIci, it seems to be a faster IIsi! I would like to bring my IIsi up to speed though, with a 25 Mhz cpu clock, and maybe see if I can hack a IIci cache card in there.

That is exactly what it is. The IIci represented the high end of the market at the time and when the IIsi was introduced later, Apple throttled the processor speed back to 20MHz so that the IIsi didn't eat into the IIci's market base.

The IIci is certainly a decent 68K and is wonderfully easy to get into for installing cards etc.

Yeah, actually, with the NuBus adaptor card, a IIsi has all the same parts as a IIci, minus the cache card, and the fact that the SCC/SCSI is on one chip not two. I wonder if the IIsi Rom contains the logic for a cache card. Since the cache controller is attached directly to the 68030 bus thru the PDS and has no ROM, I'm assuming this needs ROM support to see the controller on the bus, and some toolbox routines to make the machine aware it's there, and flush/manage it. I'll do some MacsBug work on the IIci and see if i can find out for sure. I know the IIsi has the _SlotManager additions to read and write data over Nubus, even though it doesn't have a NuBus controller without the adaptor card, so a similar mechanism must be true of the cache controller.