Centris 650 and Multiple Sync 15"

[kerobaros]

Picked the aforementioned up today from a guy in Bloomington, IL. I have several Power Macs, and a few compacts, but other than a flaky/crumbling 660av, this is my only full-fat 040 in the house. I love my Mystic CC, but I don't feel like doing the 640x480 upgrade, so now I have a good 68k machine to play Civ and SimCity 2000 on again, and at that sweet sweet 832x624 at 75hz. Buttery smooth.

Some questions for you all:

Storage: The hard drive is dead, so I'm booting it off a Zip disk with 7.5.5 right now. So slow. I ordered a scsi2sd 5.1 already. Any suggestions on a mounting solution for the internal bracket? 

CD: I need to find a CD caddy. Anyone have an extra?

RAM: any reason I shouldn't max it out? Any certain kind of SIMM I need to look for? The googles tell me I need four 32MB 72pin SIMMs at 80ns or faster.

NuBus cards: none. I have onboard Ethernet, and I can't think of any cards I /need/, so I guess tell me what toys I should look for?

 

[cheesestraws]

Any suggestions on a mounting solution for the internal bracket?  

I tend to use self-adhesive nylon PCB pillars / standoffs (assuming you mean to mount the scsi2sd).  Cheap, easy and totally reversible.  I've also found them useful for all kinds of other things, so I just keep a big pot of them now

 

[kerobaros]

I tend to use self-adhesive nylon PCB pillars / standoffs (assuming you mean to mount the scsi2sd).  Cheap, easy and totally reversible.  I've also found them useful for all kinds of other things, so I just keep a big pot of them now

Like these? Good idea! I could probably find them cheaper elsewhere, though.

 

[cheesestraws]

Like these? Good idea! I could probably find them cheaper elsewhere, though.

Yes, precisely!  You just need to make sure that the clip on the top is the same size as the hole in the PCB.  I think the ones I use are ~3.8mm, but it's a bit tricky to check right at the moment.

(I have an entire re-cased LC II where everything is mounted with those)