IIci acquisition

[offensive_jerk]

Just joined here after acquiring my IIci.

My second mac, after a core duo macbook.

Kinda fun to play around with.

 

[JRL]

Congrats! IIci's are one of the best classic Macs ever IMO.

Your IIci seems to be an ex-internal Apple computer, which is even more cool. :O

 

[offensive_jerk]

Congrats! IIci's are one of the best classic Macs ever IMO.
Your IIci seems to be an ex-internal Apple computer, which is even more cool. :O

That's what I thought...

Too bad no cache card.

It appears to have had a CD at some point and a laser writer. They must be lost in history.

The person did work at Apple, he left his resume on the computer.... :O

 

[Byrd]

I don't know why you blocked out the Word 5.1 serial number - I reckon we probably all use the same copy by now

JB

 

[offensive_jerk]

I don't know why you blocked out the Word 5.1 serial number - I reckon we probably all use the same copy by now
JB

I didn't, that's how it shows up on the screen.....

 

[Mars478]

I don't know why you blocked out the Word 5.1 serial number - I reckon we probably all use the same copy by now
JB

I didn't, that's how it shows up on the screen.....

lolwut?

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

The IIci is a great little machine. I set mine up with the Apple Portrait Display on top, like I saw a MiniII setup in a movie, and listed her on my network as "WordWright." Definitely NOT MS Word, I used ClarisWorks on her, but it was a wonderful little word processing setup. The only problem was that it put the APD just a little too high for comfort and I transferred it to the top of a MicroQuadraFeetsMac™ (AKA Q605) as soon as I nabbed one. That put it at just the right height to sit next to my 20" Radius PrecisionView. The IIci remained hooked up via KVM, but I never used it much thereafter.



It went away with a lot of other goodies about four years ago. :-/

Luckily my Quadra 700s were in my apartment at the time! I was collecting 700s (and hacking them, of course [] ]'> ) as CinderBlocks for a TechnoGeek takeoff on the classic DIY Bookshelf. [)] ]'>

 

[Dog Cow]

Just joined here after acquiring my IIci.

Because before, you wouldn't have been allowed. ;D

 

[Osgeld]

Just joined here after acquiring my IIci.

Because before, you wouldn't have been allowed. ;D

In all fairness its been about 10 years since I owned a 68k mac :O

back when, I came to a computer salvage dealer who had a skid of IIci's and IIcx's ... in my total ignorance on the subject I got the IIcx (sigh) but it was a ok machine and after years of ownership I sold it to a mac head collecting 68k's so all is well

 

[beachycove]

You need to turn on 32-bit addressing in the Memory Control Panel of that IIci in order to take advantage of your 20MB of RAM.

Back in days of yore, of course, that was a LOT of RAM.

 

[offensive_jerk]

You need to turn on 32-bit addressing in the Memory Control Panel of that IIci in order to take advantage of your 20MB of RAM.
Back in days of yore, of course, that was a LOT of RAM.

Thanks for the tip, but the battery is depleted, so the setting changes back if I power down.

 

[Mike Richardson]

You need to turn on 32-bit addressing in the Memory Control Panel of that IIci in order to take advantage of your 20MB of RAM.
Back in days of yore, of course, that was a LOT of RAM.

Thanks for the tip, but the battery is depleted, so the setting changes back if I power down.

I sell new batteries. $6 each shipped to USA, $7 each shipped abroad. Send me a PM if you're interested.

 

[Temetka]

This is such a killer setup. Very nicely done IMO. I could totally use that setup on a day to day basis with no problems.

 

[JPauli]

This was my first computer ever. I LOVE them. It was still my primary computer up until December 1999, when I bought an iMac.

 

[ianj]

I like IIcis so much that when I had the chance a couple years ago, I grabbed four of them. They had all been clustered together as some sort of server; I forget the specifics, but I pulled the original hard disks instead of wiping them, so I might revisit that later.

Trash80toHP_Mini: That's my kind of setup. I'm still kicking myself because I had a Macintosh Portrait Display a long time ago, but my mom convinced me to give it to Goodwill because I didn't have the right cables to run it. Of course, years down the road, I ended up using a Quadra as a writing machine, and sorely miss that display. For the record, after that Portrait Display, I was so horrified at what I had been talked into that I haven't gotten rid of anything since.

 

[netfreak]

You need to turn on 32-bit addressing in the Memory Control Panel of that IIci in order to take advantage of your 20MB of RAM.
Back in days of yore, of course, that was a LOT of RAM.

Ahh, I guess that's why the system software eats up more than it should be? A 7.1 install taking 14 megs...

 

[LCGuy]

Unless you've got a lot of extensions and control panels installed, I'd say your problem is that you have 32 bit addressing turned off. With 32 bit addressing turned off, the system cannot access any more than the first 8MB of RAM. The remaining memory simply gets reported as being used by the system software. Turn on 32 bit addressing and restart, and you should be able to use a lot more RAM.