II SI?

[Christopher]

Hey guys, is it worth grabbing a free Macintosh II SI? It has a 12" apple RGB monitor to go with it and little to no yellowing. Not sure of specs since I did not have ADB KB/M with me to try it.

 

[redrouteone]

Hell yeah.

The IIsi is my favorite of the Mac II line, I really like the styling of it.

 

[Christopher]

Now to figure how to get both things home a bicycle.....

 

[Scott Baret]

It's worth it for the 12" monitor alone. Best Apple monitor for the 68Ks, especially the IIsi and LCs.

 

[Christopher]

I got a apple display cable to VGA so I could use it with my G4.

 

[Unknown_K]

I have a IIsi and I like it, but you can tell Apple crippled it because of little expansion choices.

 

[macintoshme]

I loved mine, I got 8 working on it... didn't run too fast, but it was cool

 

[Christopher]

I have a IIsi and I like it, but you can tell Apple crippled it because of little expansion choices.

isn't like one nubus or something?

 

[JRL]

There is a Nubus expander card which gives the IIsi two Nubus slots.

 

[bigD]

I like my IIsi - loved the styling and it can run System 6!

 

[Dan 7.1]

There is a Nubus expander card which gives the IIsi two Nubus slots.

two? i doubt it. my IIsi has a riser card with an FPU and a single nubus slot, and iirc the back of the machine only has one slot anyways.

 

[JRL]

IIRC, it plugs into the single Nubus slot and is basically a Nubus card with two Nubus slots.

 

[MacMan]

Definitely worth grabbing that IIsi! Any old Mac like that should be saved in my opinion.

Now to figure how to get both things home a bicycle.....

That's nothing, I know a guy who managed to transport a Superbrain home on his bicycle. Just take plenty of bungees and make sure the base unit and monitor are well fastened to the luggage rack / panniers.

 

[Quadraman]

The IIsi has ZERO Nubus slots built in. all it has is an 030 PDS like the SE/30. The adapter card converts the PDS to ONE Nubus slot, not two. How do you think you're going to mount two Nubus cards in a IIsi case?

 

[Bolle]

the two nubus slot adapter sounds suspect to me

of what use would be a nubus card where you cant access teh back panel...

the adapters with two slots are either dual PDS adapters so you can plug in two PDS cards (one accelerator and a nic for example) or they are nubus+pds adapters.

 

[Quadraman]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-820-0305-01-Mac-IIsi-NuBus-Adapter-Card_W0QQitemZ170200781142

here is the PDS to Nubus adapter for the IIsi

 

[JRL]

I mistook the PDS slot as a Nubus slot...

 

[LCGuy]

I'd grab it.

As for NuBus slots, even if you could somehow get 2 NuBus cards into a IIsi, I still wouldn't - even when the IIsi was new, it had a reputation for having a, well, under-endowed power supply.

 

[Christopher]

Well, I can get over there on tuesday, and I will have a friend and a "general lee" also known as Honda Civic.