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I have a battery bombed IIvx I snagged to put a Quadra 650 motherboard into. Found the Quadra board at a recycler ages ago and the IIvx was offered for shipping because it was toast (back in 2015). Time flies. I would try to save it since the IIvx isn't exactly that common and that board...

Max is 2MB VRAM, the very high end NUBUS cards were 3-6MB I think. Built in video on a Quadra is plenty fast but color depth gets limited because of VRAM. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/specs/mac_quadra_950.html "The onboard video can support 512x384 at 24-bit and 640x480...

I have a Daystar 68040/40 that was modded by somebody to do over 50Mhz, but it does have a fan on the heatsink.

Nice. It's been a long time since I have had a massive computer haul like in the good old days, just some things here and there.

I could never sell my 950's too cool and too many useful Nubus slots. The front panel is the only bare unpainted plastics on the machine so it will yellow sometimes. Did you get keys with it? 30 pin SIMMs are probably going to be harder to find then the good old days but even with 16 x 1MB...

I used to burn a bunch of CDs when I first got into 68K and early PPC macs, but I prefer original media for installs so I collected quite a few of them.

BASIC testing means remove what isn't needed to boot and use 1 good RAM stick.

Apple had the numbers of sold machines to entice developers plus the software team to help them if needed while Commodore had neither with the Amiga. Let's be honest the top seller was probably the A500 which is nothing more than a game machine (no networking or hard drive nor VGA video). Once...

Generally, I would recommend you wipe the drive and format it when attached to the third party IDE/SATA card instead of just using a drive from another machine. Also 6 PCI slot machines are picky on which set of slots you use for storage (because of the bandwidth used). Back when OSX didn't...

First RAM stick isn't clicked in.

The original Wallstreet also came with the crappy 800x600 DS screen as an option. The major difference is the originals had the 66/83mhz FSB and the later needed PC100 RAM, the second generation was just 66FSB.

Hopefully some of the main chips didn't get destroyed or lose too many legs.

9600 slots seemed pretty deep and tight to me for the thick CPU to sag in any way. I would be looking for weak PRAM batteries, marginal power supplies, or general capacitor issues that come with age. Old computers, Cars, stereo systems etc. all seem to age badly if not fired up every so often.

An SE/30 with ethernet and 32MB of RAM running OS 7.1 is perfection to me. I also like an SE with dual floppies and a skinny SCSI HD on top, especially with a Radius 68020 upgrade. Did he order the greyscale upgrade?

Nobody is making PC66/100/133 anymore so people are fighting over leftovers especially if they want unused. I think DDR3 might still be made in Asia.

PC100 is what the Wallstreets used (66 or 83 FSB depending on the model). When I was actively collecting that era of laptops there were deals for low density Crucial 256MB PC100 CL2 DIMMs 8 small chips per side new (basically old stock being blown out) but that was ages ago. A quick look on...

I benched spinning disks ages ago on Jackhammers and SEIV (I have SEII's and other Nubus SCSI cards as well). There should be results from back then on the forum if you search.

Yea, I was lucky when I found mine. Apple must have sold a million IIfx motherboards as upgrades to Mac II and IIx's. As far as power supplies go, I never really noticed much noise difference but never did a side-by-side comparison. Cooling fans even from the same batch can sound different...

There are probably more Mac II's upgraded to IIfx then stock these days.

It all depends on what you like in vintage gear, I like the old sounds of mechanical drives.