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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-05-31 18:33:10
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.
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Posted by: redrouteone on 2008-05-31 18:34:44
Hell yeah.
The IIsi is my favorite of the Mac II line, I really like the styling of it.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-05-31 18:35:54
Now to figure how to get both things home a bicycle.....
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2008-05-31 19:11:34
It's worth it for the 12" monitor alone. Best Apple monitor for the 68Ks, especially the IIsi and LCs.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-05-31 19:13:05
I got a apple display cable to VGA so I could use it with my G4. 🙂
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2008-05-31 20:03:18
I have a IIsi and I like it, but you can tell Apple crippled it because of little expansion choices.
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Posted by: macintoshme on 2008-05-31 20:07:43
I loved mine, I got 8 working on it... didn't run too fast, but it was cool
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-05-31 21:11:07
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?
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Posted by: JRL on 2008-05-31 21:26:04
There is a Nubus expander card which gives the IIsi two Nubus slots.
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Posted by: bigD on 2008-05-31 21:34:11
I like my IIsi - loved the styling and it can run System 6!
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2008-05-31 22:33:59
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.
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Posted by: JRL on 2008-06-01 06:54:19
IIRC, it plugs into the single Nubus slot and is basically a Nubus card with two Nubus slots.
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Posted by: MacMan on 2008-06-01 09:56:35
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.
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2008-06-01 15:20:46
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?
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Posted by: Bolle on 2008-06-01 15:23:19
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.
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2008-06-01 15:24:30
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-820-0305-01-Mac-IIsi-NuBus-Adapter-Card_W0QQitemZ170200781142
here is the PDS to Nubus adapter for the IIsi
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Posted by: JRL on 2008-06-01 15:29:12
I mistook the PDS slot as a Nubus slot... 😛
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-06-01 16:27:27
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.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-06-01 20:20:32
Well, I can get over there on tuesday, and I will have a friend and a "general lee" also known as Honda Civic.
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