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A sad IIsi sits in original box!

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brad_k New Member Canada 63 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 12:07:25 I found something very disturbing at work today, and its got me feeling quite militant right now. Sitting in a small, windowless 10x10 room sits a practically unused IIsi in its original box (pristine condition) where it has apparently sat, untouched for several years. What a waste! What's more, I'm told they can't let it go as it formally doesn't even belong to the company. It was a loaner from Apple which they never bothered to collect! I'd go visit it, but the room is locked and my passkey doesn't have access. :-( -Brad ______________________________________ www.32bitwonder.org ...because it's possible
wisof Junior Member USA 257 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 12:32:47 I know just how you feel, check out this thread where I discuss my finds: topic.asp.TOPIC_ID=5435.html I have a problem with vintage electronics. . .I am working on it.
brad_k New Member Canada 63 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 12:39:46 Yes, I just finished reading your post. I can definitely relate! ______________________________________ www.32bitwonder.org ...because it's possible
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 12:50:49 I recently picked up a IIsi. Not a bad little box. It's Road Apple designation on LEM is not justified, IMO. Maybe you can write Apple about their uncollected computer and convince Apple/your boss that it is OK to be liberated. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 25 Jul 2003 : 17:57:11 Don't you hate it when you see something really cool, and you almost get it, but can't have it? "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
brad_k New Member Canada 63 Posts	Posted - 26 Jul 2003 : 12:42:10 I plan on doing just that. There's no reason why it should be hold up in that room any longer. Mind you, I really can't complain. I've scored both a SE/30 and a 8100/110 (G3) in less than a week. Still, it riles me that the IIsi sits unappreciated like that. Anyone here from Winnipeg CANADA? We should stage a raid! :-) -Brad ______________________________________ www.32bitwonder.org ...because it's possible
redrouteone Junior Member USA 226 Posts	Posted - 26 Jul 2003 : 13:28:56 See if you can find some reason that you need it do your work. Then it can have a new home on your desk. --Eric ___________________________ Have you seen my mojo?
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 26 Jul 2003 : 16:37:10 Great idea, redrouteone! "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 27 Jul 2003 : 13:37:30 I'm sory... (read: NEW IN FSDKING BOX!!!!) that is AMAZING!!!! If I were you, I'd check for any special apple things like a NuBus card that wasn't ever released, or special software or something... Also, I'd try to keep it in as good as condition as possible... I'm sure that even now, it's worth A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY!!! you don't NEED to tell apple or your company that not only is the iisi a great performing little machine, but that it's "NIB" status is highly saught after good luck with getting it! Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life" I have alot of posts... if you don't like it than I don't know what to say.
kokav Starting Member USA 1 Posts	Posted - 12 Aug 2003 : 19:23:58 Yes, IIsi's are great. I grabbed one from a sleepy computer store in my town for $10. I was in middle school at the time, fighting a massive guerilla campaign against steadily increasing Dell boxen. My primary weapons there were LC IIs, but we came by III's, IIsis, and even a few PowerMac 5200s now and then. I took the IIsi to the science prep room at school that we were operating from and it sat on a counter next to our stack of pizza box Macs keeping inventory with Excel 3. Before I took it home at the end of the year, I was lucky enough to come across a dead IIsi in a cabinet full of unused Mac parts and swapped in an 80MB drive for the original 40, and 17 MB of RAM for the original 5. It also got a NuBus adapter, which was filled by an original Mac II video card and then an Ethernet card. Now a friend is borrowing it and running it with an awesome dual monitor setup (the II video card is back in). Truly an excellent box. The RAM Muncher INIT is a must, and if you get the time, overclock it to 25 MHz, as all of the parts are rated to perform at that speed. I spent a year on the public school front in the war against Microsoft.
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 12 Aug 2003 : 21:25:25 wow... you had teachers that would let you operate something like that out of a science prep room? My school in WA had science prep rooms... but our school was brand new just the other year... so we began with ONLY dells... except my science teacher's TiBook... had I still gone to school there today, I might even have brought my own TiBook.... dunno though Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"

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