IIci nice surprise

[dan75th]

I bought a IIci in unknown condition on eBay a while back, and I just recently pulled it out and decided to take a look at it. It doesn’t power on, which I’m guessing is a PSU issue, but everything looks to be in really nice condition inside, aside from the board needing to be recapped.
I was pleasantly surprised to find a Daystar Turbo 040 installed as well. My question is, what’s the ballpark market for the Daystar card these days, and is it better to just keep it in the IIci or try to sell it to fund other projects?

 

[olePigeon]

Hard to say the price. Seem to go for between $500 to $700, but there are a LOT of fake auctions right now that are multiple bots selling the exact same item from Japan for a stupidly inflated price that might affect the sale price.

They're fantastic accelerators, especially for a IIci. Your IIci is going to need a lot of work. Motherboard will need new capacitors. Power Supply might be OK, but you could also just replace it with a newer power supply with a IIci adapter.

 

[dan75th]

Hard to say the price. Seem to go for between $500 to $700, but there are a LOT of fake auctions right now that are multiple bots selling the exact same item from Japan for a stupidly inflated price that might affect the sale price.

They're fantastic accelerators, especially for a IIci. Your IIci is going to need a lot of work. Motherboard will need new capacitors. Power Supply might be OK, but you could also just replace it with a newer power supply with a IIci adapter.

I ordered a new pico power supply that drops into the original case, since it looks like a nightmare to recap the original one. Recapping the logic board is no big deal for me. I’m just glad the Maxell bomb didn’t leak. The board itself is in surprisingly good shape, including the traces that I can see so far.

 

[Byrd]

Nice fine I'd keep the accelerator you'll never get it again cheap. With this in the Iici it also makes quite a formidable Mac OS 6/7/8 machine.