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| Posted by: IIfx on 2011-01-13 14:36:42 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 😛 ) | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-01-13 18:06:06 Oooo, nice score. I always have my eyes out for a IIfx. The mother of all IIfxes slipped by me on Craigslist, so I've been watching like a hawk ever since. 😛 | |
| Posted by: MrMacintosh on 2011-01-13 18:07:25 Welcome! 😀 My IIfx came with a monster 5.25" drive that wasn't hooked up. I connected it to the internal SCSI and power cables, turned on the machine, and it blew an inductor on the logic board. no more internal drive for my IIfx. A word of warning merely; not to meant to scare you 😱) I did get the huge drive up and running, for a period of time, using a program called SilverLining (LaCie, maybe?) :?: and Mt. Everything. However, after sitting for a year or so, the drive physically works fine, but refuses to be read or formatted with anything other than those programs. Welcome aboard again, and let me know if you need a copy of those SCSI utilities via PM. Kyle- | |
Posted by: IIfx on 2011-01-13 19:29:22I did get the huge drive up and running, for a period of time, using a program called SilverLining (LaCie, maybe?) :?: and Mt. Everything. However, after sitting for a year or so, the drive physically works fine, but refuses to be read or formatted with anything other than those programs.I did use SilverLining actually. And System 7 on installation threw disk errors at me. On restart, the Mac bombed. | |
| Posted by: Strimkind on 2011-01-13 19:44:06 Now i am glad that I did not get one of the big drives in my IIfx. At some point in its life it had a marker with NO HARD DRIVE written on the top. I guess the original died because when I got it it had a standard Apple Quantum 230MB drive inside. Probably a lot nicer than the original. BTW congrats on the nice conquest! | |
| Posted by: IIfx on 2011-01-16 11:05:24 As promised, here is a picture of it.  Blurry, I know. I had set focus to manual a while back and forgot to change it to auto. | |
| Posted by: 4seasonphoto on 2011-01-16 13:32:50 Wow, an autofocus Zenit, whoda thunk? | |
Posted by: IIfx on 2011-01-16 19:14:35Wow, an autofocus Zenit, whoda thunk?LOL no, that was my Leica D-LUX 3. The only soviet camera with autofocus was the Elikon Avtofocus, which was a simple point and shoot. Now, I have it on good authority from the folks in Krasnogorsk that they are working on a DSLR Zenit :O | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2011-01-17 04:31:41 IIfx, welcome to the 68kMLA. I like your 'nic and your find! As a new recruit you probably haven't seen it yet, but from the sound of it, I'll bet you'd get a big kick out of the Analog Photography/Gear/Collections thread! | |
| Posted by: Theretrogamingroom on 2011-01-17 06:12:11 Sega Genesis! | |
Posted by: IIfx on 2011-01-17 08:11:09Sega Genesis!Yep, I used it to test the AV card. Honestly, the IIfx is just a little too slow for it, only pulling 0.7mb/s in recording to HD, while my Quadra 800 can do 2mb/s The genesis is my worst one actually, with samsung video encoder. Its a VA1. I have a VA3 Genesis with Sega CD and 32x attached, I love that thing but I did not want to drag a huge pile of gaming hardware to test the VideoVision 😛 | |
| Posted by: Theretrogamingroom on 2011-01-17 09:16:10 Me to! I have a Sega CD model 2 and 32x hooked up to one of mine. Now I want to play some games (Such as Silpheed, Sonic CD and Knuckles Chaotix). | |
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