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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Building a Hot Rod IIci- Any Recommendations | Posted by: CompactMacLover on 2011-03-31 21:18:46
Well ive really fallen for my little IIci, Its small, and works perfect
Has 64MB Of Ram installed, 400MB Hard drive, so im wondering what I can do to use this thing to its full potential other then play games on it, Ive got an external Apple CD 300 for it. An Asante Ethernet Card. Right now it Boots to System 7.1 and screams. Ive thought of installing A/UX, but I have a quadra 950 sitting here for that that has 128MB of ram in it.
Ive also got a IIx and a II that I can hot rod up a bit, Although, I love running the II with System 6.0.4, its fast with 8MB of RAM, plays all the old system 6 games and is an all around neat machine
The IIx is running System 6.0.8 and has 8MB of ram installed as well.
What do you guys use your II series macs for??
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2011-04-01 01:13:25
One of my IIci (actually a IIcx with a IIci motherboard,onboard video plug removed) has a Supermac Digital Film setup including a 68040/33 Daystar card.
My other units run OS 7.1 with different Nubus cards for whatever projects I am using. Over the years I have collected all kinds of IIci CPU cards so those machines are all 68040 currently with 32MB of RAM.
Most of my machines are setup for something specific like video editing.
| Posted by: CompactMacLover on 2011-04-01 21:39:05
Well that was fun, My IIci blew its power supply, no burned smell no nothing, just up and poofed. Thankfully I had another one around to pop into it. I had been running the 13 inch Display off the Pass thru. Must've popped a fuse in the Power Supply. I was halfway done with installing a fresh System 7.5 to it when it happened.
| Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2011-04-02 13:30:49
I have two IIcis in active use.
The first one is my NetBSD DNS server, and also does limited powerfail and AppleTalk services. It has 128MB of RAM and has uptime measured in years. It only goes down when it chews up another cache card, which occurs about every 24 to 36 months.
The second one is my 68K playbox. It has a DayStar 50MHz '030 with FPU, and "triple boots" 7.1, A/UX 3.1 and MacMINT. It also has 72MB of RAM, an 8*24*GC for speedy graphics (acceleration enabled), a Video Spigot capture board, a Farallon dual-port Ethernet card and a side-car CD-ROM. It plays various games and runs old apps.
| Posted by: CompactMacLover on 2011-04-02 14:52:46
Nice, My IIci is going to be my 68k playbox as well I got ssw 7.5 on it, which is stable, but not as fast as id like, I may downgrade to 7.1 and add a couple extensions that duplicate the functionality of 7.5, mainly the opening folders in the apple menu. What is a sidecar CD-ROM?? Im looking for an external CD 150,300 or 600 for mine. 64 Megs is plenty enough. I love how it takes forever at boot for the thing to kick on with that much ram in it 😛 . One feature ive always loved was the Launcher, I was exposed to that on System 7.1P on a Performa 400. As soon as I get a CD-ROM, can we say Star Wars Rebel Assault. I play it on my beige G3, but its buggy in OS 9 and on the G3 processor. Runs alot better on the real 68k
| Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2011-04-02 17:05:08
The RAM test is a lot faster with the DayStar. By sidecar I just mean an external CD-ROM, yes.
| Posted by: CompactMacLover on 2011-04-02 20:35:59
Mine is all up and running
Heres the specs
System 7.1
64MB Of Ram
400MB Hard drive
Asante MacCon 3NB Ethernet Card
Only issue is AppleShare crashes when connecting to the Beige G3 due to the hard drive being 40GB, any workarounds for this one. What i have been doing is using a zip cartridge as a volume share over appleshare works good to get files to it
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-04-05 11:39:09
On the G3 you could try sharing a single Folder instead of the HDD. You could also set up an FTP server on the G3.
| Posted by: Aoresteen on 2011-07-03 09:13:57
I'd bump the RAM to 128MB and get the cache card if you don't have one.
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