Macintosh IIcx and Core Duo Mac Mini

[Compgeke]

Picked both of these up along with a pair of Altec 887A speakers for $3. The speakers and Mini work but I haven't yet tested the II - it's wet.

First off, the IIcx. I have quite a few pictures of this one as I can open it. It has the stock 80 meg hard drive, I believe 4 megs of ram and a Radius GS/CM video card. I have the Apple Extended Keyboard with Salmon alps as well but I don't have it on hand to take pictures of.

I also picked up the Mac Mini which has been upgraded to two gigs of ram and a 320 gig hard drive - stock was 512 and 60. The previous owners really should've wiped their files as there is a LOT of stuff you wouldn't want shared such as passwords.doc and business documents.

And not mac related but the speakers...on the stove. - Altec speakers and the Onkyo receiver on the stove.

 

[unity]

I like the IIcx. The first "mini" form factor that can be set flat or on its side. Also one of the first that Apple did in house design of. Overall not the most powerful, but still a neat machine. And yours looks in great shape! Overall, great score!

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Is that receiver made of metal? If so, that's likely to be a pretty good one.

 

[Compgeke]

Yup, entire metal casing down to the wood grain which is veneer over sheet metal. Sounds pretty good but has a tendency to randomly blow the right speaker fuse no matter what speaker set or wire you're using. No idea what causes it but it happens occasionally so it's usually stuck in the garage with a single-speaker anyways.

It's one of the last metal faced receivers being made in the early 80s.

 

[switch998]

Yup, entire metal casing down to the wood grain which is veneer over sheet metal. Sounds pretty good but has a tendency to randomly blow the right speaker fuse no matter what speaker set or wire you're using. No idea what causes it but it happens occasionally so it's usually stuck in the garage with a single-speaker anyways.

It's one of the last metal faced receivers being made in the early 80s.

Check the pins on your amplifier STK463 since they're likely shorted, a replacement should be around $5

 

[uniserver]

i like the IIcx!   its very nice looking!

Missing a couple feets...

The SCSI port on there looks a little strange though.

maybe its a pass though or something.

- Looks like you have your self a decent video card too.

- Looks like the mb is ready for a cap job... those pads look a little crusty.

I remember when the Intel Mini's came out.

They were Strong, Leaving the G4 mini's in the dust!

Pretty sure you can throw an upgrade cpu in there too!

 

[Elfen]

Love that IIcx, it was my first Mac. You need to remove the PSU and HD Mounting Plastic to see if your CPU is socketted or not. If it is, you can throw in an accelerator onto the socket.

That Mac Mini is a cool score too. In all - a totally great find!

 

[wilykat]

Love that IIcx, it was my first Mac. You need to remove the PSU and HD Mounting Plastic to see if your CPU is socketted or not. If it is, you can throw in an accelerator onto the socket.

That Mac Mini is a cool score too. In all - a totally great find!

Or an adapter board to use IIci cache card.

 

[Superdos]

i like the IIcx!   its very nice looking!

Missing a couple feets...

The SCSI port on there looks a little strange though.

maybe its a pass though or something.

- Looks like you have your self a decent video card too.

- Looks like the mb is ready for a cap job... those pads look a little crusty.

I remember when the Intel Mini's came out.

They were Strong, Leaving the G4 mini's in the dust!

Pretty sure you can throw an upgrade cpu in there too!

I told him his IIcx needed a cap job as soon as I laid eyes on the above pictures.

but since it was out in the rain, it doesn't look bad from the angles he took pics of it with. I keep saying that he needs to gut it and dishwasher it first before anything... lest it end up like my IIci board. so young and naiive was I to gut a IIci that would have worked, all because I didn't know the caps were leaky. least I got a spare quadra 700 PSU out of it, and some other things...

but now I have that IIvx that will soon need a cap job. for now it works, the question is for how long.

 

[unity]

I hope you dont mean dishwasher the mobo - I never hear good things about that unless its done right. I have a color classic board that clearly met a dishwasher. Its ugly.

 

[Macdrone]

I did the dishwasher deed, just make sure no soap, extra rinse and no rinse aid and no residue left.

 

[SuperToaster]

Yes the plastics on the IIcx look great

 

[Compgeke]

Not IIcx related but I did play with the Mini.

I've got it running with a Core 2 Duo T5600 and after flashing the Mac Mini 2,1 EFI 4 gigs of ram. Next up will be Lion but that has to wait until tomorrow when I can get a 2nd hard drive.

 

[techknight]

Check the pins on your amplifier STK463 since they're likely shorted, a replacement should be around $5

Products with an STK anything are likely shorted! Those Hybrids from Sanyo/Panasonic/Matsushita were some of the worse things ever made. Most of those chips were highly unreliable and destructive to overcurrent. 

Lots of audio amplifiers met an early demise from those ICs, and alot of projection TVs used STKs and they failed too. Anything with an STK in it died. the STKs used in power supply regulators, also failed. 

Garbage....