MindWalker
Well-known member
Hi,
I bought pile of Mac IIfx parts (from a machine sadly already trashed due to a heavy battery-bomb) from a local auction.
The main piece of the auction for me was an Asante MacCon+ IIe Nubus Ethernet card (with an external twisted pair MAU). I just put this into my IIcx and it works great! I was especially happy to get this, as I had just been looking for one more Nubus ethernet card and there was very little stock on eBay and I've very rarely seen these come up locally.
There was also a beautiful set of MC68030RC40B and XC68882RC40A. My IIcx has a socketed CPU, but I presume the jump from 16 Mhz to 40 Mhz would be too much (and the 68882 is soldered on anyway) so I am not expecting to be able to use these in the IIcx. (I am sure I'll have other uses for these in the future!)
Among the parts was a IIfx ROM stick (Samsung KMM532128RP-01). Would this be of any use in my IIcx? Like give it 32-bit addressing without MODE32? After a quick google I figured it should be Ok to try, and I put it in. With the IIfx ROM I get a happy mac and 'Welcome to Macintosh' but followed by an error of '"The 'System' file on this startup disk may be damaged. The Installer can be used to repair this disk". The current install on the disk has MODE32, which I expected to be the issue here, but neither booting with shift down (to disable extensions) nor booting with esc pressed (which should disable MODE32 for the current session) helped the issue. It's getting late so I didn't test booting from 7.1 install disk or anything, but I am wondering if I could use this ROM stick here.
Then there was also a pile of 4MB SIMMs (4x 70ns and 4x 80ns), which should be handy elsewhere. The latter sticks have minor corrosion damage but it didn't look too bad and I expect them to clean up with some effort.
I bought pile of Mac IIfx parts (from a machine sadly already trashed due to a heavy battery-bomb) from a local auction.
The main piece of the auction for me was an Asante MacCon+ IIe Nubus Ethernet card (with an external twisted pair MAU). I just put this into my IIcx and it works great! I was especially happy to get this, as I had just been looking for one more Nubus ethernet card and there was very little stock on eBay and I've very rarely seen these come up locally.
There was also a beautiful set of MC68030RC40B and XC68882RC40A. My IIcx has a socketed CPU, but I presume the jump from 16 Mhz to 40 Mhz would be too much (and the 68882 is soldered on anyway) so I am not expecting to be able to use these in the IIcx. (I am sure I'll have other uses for these in the future!)
Among the parts was a IIfx ROM stick (Samsung KMM532128RP-01). Would this be of any use in my IIcx? Like give it 32-bit addressing without MODE32? After a quick google I figured it should be Ok to try, and I put it in. With the IIfx ROM I get a happy mac and 'Welcome to Macintosh' but followed by an error of '"The 'System' file on this startup disk may be damaged. The Installer can be used to repair this disk". The current install on the disk has MODE32, which I expected to be the issue here, but neither booting with shift down (to disable extensions) nor booting with esc pressed (which should disable MODE32 for the current session) helped the issue. It's getting late so I didn't test booting from 7.1 install disk or anything, but I am wondering if I could use this ROM stick here.
Then there was also a pile of 4MB SIMMs (4x 70ns and 4x 80ns), which should be handy elsewhere. The latter sticks have minor corrosion damage but it didn't look too bad and I expect them to clean up with some effort.
