A guy claims to be selling a "dual processor" IIfx

[bmacsys]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250203927921&_trksid=p2761.l1259

He swears its true. Never heard of one myself and I have even owned about 15 IIfx's over the years. I wonder if he has a Stage II Radius Rocket and classifies it as a dual processor machine.

 

[equill]

That is an explanation, which the presence of, say, a DayStar PowerCache card would not be, but the description is inadequate to reveal the explanation. The seller should be asked to state explicitly what constitutes the 'dual' processor capability.

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[bigD]

My guess is that he has a Rocket.

Or as equill mentioned, he's trying to pass a processor upgrade in the PDS slot off as a second processor.

Or hell, maybe he's referring to the 6502s. Of course then it'd be a three processor machine.

 

[Unknown_K]

I bet he sees the CPU and FPU and thinks there are 2 processors.

A PDS processor slot for a IIfx is so rare its not funny, could be a rocket but that would look like a normal card to most people anyway.

 

[mac2geezer]

I scratched my head over that ad when I saw it also. Notice that there's no mention of Ram or HD size or what flavor video card, if any, all of which would make a big difference for appropriate bidding.

 

[gobabushka]

i just asked him, we'll see what he says.

 

[Unknown_K]

A simple internal shot of the motherboard would explain quite a bit. I expect he has a generic system, from the picture he showed I am not even sure if it is a IIfx or an upgraded II/IIx.

 

[bmacsys]

He told me I was wrong when I told him it wasn't a dual processor machine. Said he was an Apple rep and sold them.

 

[coius]

He told me I was wrong when I told him it wasn't a dual processor machine. Said he was an Apple rep and sold them.

That's BS. Apple's 68k machines were not dual CPU Capable. At least, not the early 680x0 machines. I have never seen a blatent lie like that. That guy will be discovered and kicked off eBay if he keeps doing that.

 

[Quadraman]

Boycott the liars auctions!!

 

[paws]

The only SMP 68k I've ever heard of is a Cray that wouldn't fit in any room in this house...

 

[coius]

is there a way to bring it to ebay's attention so that they can prevent a scam? I am sure ebay just doesn't want a hindsight of 20/20 in their auctions. If you can present a clear case, they will shut down the auction because of false information (just like they do when someone claims a cheap replica as a real thing, and it's proven wrong by someone with credentials they WILL shut it down and ban the user)

Anyways, you might see if you can present it to ebay. If this thing goes for a lot, this could be a really huge scam, and this could mean that if this is on purpose, he may be doing more of these.

 

[gobabushka]

i just messagged him and told him tht before he gets a barage of letters from mad mac collectors like people from the MLA, that he might want to check evverymac and LEM, cause he told me tht it was the dual processor model in the Mac II family

 

[trag]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250203927921&_trksid=p2761.l1259
He swears its true. Never heard of one myself and I have even owned about 15 IIfx's over the years. I wonder if he has a Stage II Radius Rocket and classifies it as a dual processor machine.

Okay, here's my guess. The seller doesn't have a clue. He looked under the hood and saw the 68030 and the 68552 (? FPU) chips which look similar if slightly different in size. Then assumed that the presence of two such prominent chips meant that it has two processors.

That's my totally foundationless guess.

 

[equill]

Not-at-all foundationless. That was suggested above by UnknownK, and it is an appealing hypothesis. After all, the bloke has not had the simple nous to describe the machine's configuration, and even that the machine is a stock Macintosh II and therefore a possible upgrade is difficult to read from the pic., with or without the aid of command-option-8. But there is certainly a 68881 in a Mac II.

He hadn't posted an answer to gobabushka's query as of an hour-or-so ago. And yer gotta love the garbled snippet about the terminator.

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[bmacsys]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250203927921&_trksid=p2761.l1259
He swears its true. Never heard of one myself and I have even owned about 15 IIfx's over the years. I wonder if he has a Stage II Radius Rocket and classifies it as a dual processor machine.

Okay, here's my guess. The seller doesn't have a clue. He looked under the hood and saw the 68030 and the 68552 (? FPU) chips which look similar if slightly different in size. Then assumed that the presence of two such prominent chips meant that it has two processors.

That's my totally foundationless guess.

He claimed to be an Apple sales rep. Guess he doesn't know his product very well! [] ]'>

 

[bigD]

Well, he very well could be an Apple sales rep. I doubt there are many still at Apple that know the computers from the 'old days'. Especially since Jobs seems hell bent on pretending that Apple didn't exist prior to his (re)arrival.

Still, he certainly knows nothing about the IIfx, and his claim that being a sales rep for Apple somehow makes him a credible source of IIfx information just makes him look like an ass.

 

[Unknown_K]

$127.50 not too shabby considering it is just a shitty picture of the front of a II/IIx/IIfx box. Seller MUST be an Apple sales rep judging by the selling price and what was shown.

 

[Quadraman]

The problem is he billed it as a dual processor. The winning bidder may have bid high thinking there was a radius rocket or something in there. If they bid thinking there was some sort of upgrade in there and get a plain vanilla IIfx, they are not going to be happy.