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IIci with a Radius bonus!
Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2018-09-05 18:30:44 Hey Ya'll. I've been busy doing stuff for a while. Anyway, in the course of my recent travels I picked up this IIci and it came with a surprise... A 33 Mhz Radius Rocket card! A card that I put in it 20+ years ago and completely forgot about. So the story on this IIci is it belonged to a buddy of mine in Tacoma, WA who was using it in the late 90's. During that time I had access to a lot of "old" Mac hardware and apparently I upgraded his IIci with this card back then. (I remember installing the cache card and a bunch of ram but forgot the rest.) While I was in Tacoma last week I was visiting my buddy and asked him about that old IIci he had. He still had it in his closet, since ~2000, when he got an iMac. So he let me have it and I brought it home and just opened it tonight to check for an exploded Maxell bomb. And what the heck? A Radius Rocket! And an intact battery!! Wheee! And a cache card and some ethernet card. Unfortunately the on/off reset switch is missing, broken long ago no doubt. Maybe tomorrow I'll try to fire it up! 🙂
Posted by: CC_333 on 2018-09-05 22:50:41 If you haven't already, PLEASE get that battery out ASAP! Anyway, nice find (re-find?) c
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-09-06 07:51:17 Very nice! Better find than even the Rocket is that SCSI 2 PDS daughtercard on it. Add a killer VidCard does block transfer with the Rocket and it's a killer system. What did your friend do, software development with compiling done on the Rocket under RocketShare while coding on the IIci?
Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2018-09-06 09:51:15 Very nice! Better find than even the Rocket is that SCSI 2 PDS daughtercard on it. Add a killer VidCard does block transfer with the Rocket and it's a killer system. What did your friend do, software development with compiling done on the Rocket under RocketShare while coding on the IIci? Ha ha ha, no. He played games. I doubtless picked up that card, like so much other stuff, when I was volunteering at Goodwill back then. I was just interested in upgrading his system on the cheap since he couldn't afford a new one. And yes, the Maxcell battery has been removed and safely disposed of by the bomb squad. 😀
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-09-06 11:14:05 LOL! That's about the most simple explanation for using a IIci without a good video card. Coding/compiling is the only reason I can think of offhand for having a Rocket setup under RocketShare without one by then. Haphazard, availability driven upgrade path explains it all. I'm surprised the Rocket didn't mess with sound for gaming?
Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2018-09-06 14:35:53 LOL! That's about the most simple explanation for using a IIci without a good video card. Coding/compiling is the only reason I can think of offhand for having a Rocket setup under RocketShare without one by then. Haphazard, availability driven upgrade path explains it all. I'm surprised the Rocket didn't mess with sound for gaming? It may have, I don't remember I doubt he does either. It was 20 years ago. Yeah, pity I didn't pick up any Nubus video cards back then. I'm kind of curious about just what's still on the HD, as far as Radius software. Honestly, once I verify functionality it will probably all go on the block. I have no real interest in a suped-up IIci. (Please no one PM me about it, I'll post it in the Trading Post area when I'm ready.)
Posted by: Von on 2018-09-06 17:04:21 Very nice. A IIci is next on my list. I have one of those Daystar 601 accelerators and my chances are better at getting a nice IIci then the unobtanium IIsi daughter card to run it in my IIsi.
Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2018-09-07 10:19:38 Well it look like this IIci is dead. I installed a new battery and it does nothing when I try to power it up. (Without any cards installed.) Not really surprised. Probably because of the several leaky caps at the back of the board... I'll mess with it a bit more later but I suspect this system is just parts now, I don't think I want to spend the time recapping it. It does have 32mb of ram I can scavenge for my other systems.
Posted by: IIfx on 2018-09-07 10:43:52 IIci is a rather popular machine so it may be worth recapping if the system is complete. It's not a hard board to recap.
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2018-09-07 14:07:27 The only mac that can take a Daystar without an adapter, so yes it is popular.
Posted by: trag on 2018-09-07 14:23:13 Don't the IIvi and IIvx also take Daystars without adapters? Not that anyone really wants a IIvi or IIvx... I might like a IIvx with a IIci motherboard in it.
Posted by: joethezombie on 2018-09-07 15:25:41 I don't think so, at least the photos on this page indicates a special adapter is needed for the vx.
Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2018-09-07 16:01:55 Hmm, it might be that power switch on the back is broken... Hmm... Need to break out the multimeter. More later if something develops...
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