Hello everyone,
I am new here, and since there is no introduction forum, I will start off with a short paragraph about myself. I have been collecting old computers for about 5 years. The massive collection of Macs and PC's overwhelms me at times, but it is my main hobby. I have become rather skilled at fixing things, and know my way around vintage Macs and PCs well excluding the really unusual or tricky problems. My other hobby is film photography, using a FED rangefinder and a small collection of Zenit SLR cameras.
Anyways, on to the IIfx. It was a huge pain to get it from a seemingly bipolar local ebay selling corporation. But, after a 1 month wait, I got the Mac that I have been searching for as long as I can remember. It was sold "As-Is" but something told me that it would just be the batteries. I was right for the most part. |)
It has 16mb of RAM consuming 4 of the 8 slots, and no special nubus cards. Just the kit video card and a rather boring looking generic network card. The original Superdrive seems to be dead, so I replaced it with one pulled from my parts storage. (Its my last one actually)
What pains me about it is how the huge 40mb SCSI hard disk is dead but alive. It spins and makes no odd sound, but it does not like to have files copied to it or to be formatted by apples utilities.
I will post photos of it when I get the chance. (And no, those will not be taken with a film camera
)
I am new here, and since there is no introduction forum, I will start off with a short paragraph about myself. I have been collecting old computers for about 5 years. The massive collection of Macs and PC's overwhelms me at times, but it is my main hobby. I have become rather skilled at fixing things, and know my way around vintage Macs and PCs well excluding the really unusual or tricky problems. My other hobby is film photography, using a FED rangefinder and a small collection of Zenit SLR cameras.
Anyways, on to the IIfx. It was a huge pain to get it from a seemingly bipolar local ebay selling corporation. But, after a 1 month wait, I got the Mac that I have been searching for as long as I can remember. It was sold "As-Is" but something told me that it would just be the batteries. I was right for the most part. |)
It has 16mb of RAM consuming 4 of the 8 slots, and no special nubus cards. Just the kit video card and a rather boring looking generic network card. The original Superdrive seems to be dead, so I replaced it with one pulled from my parts storage. (Its my last one actually)
What pains me about it is how the huge 40mb SCSI hard disk is dead but alive. It spins and makes no odd sound, but it does not like to have files copied to it or to be formatted by apples utilities.
I will post photos of it when I get the chance. (And no, those will not be taken with a film camera
)
) 
