Mac II question - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Oct 2000


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     My plan now
is to
beef up the IIci with the accelerator, more memory, a video
card and I'll have a neat, small 68K-based Mac II to play with.
I will be limiting the mac side of my collection to a Classic II,
an SE/30, the accelerated IIci and an 8100.  
 Does the accelerator solve the memory addressing problems in the IIc 
 series? These models have 2MB of RAM built-on , plus two 30-pin sockets 
 which will take 4MB SIMMS. Problem is, even with two 4MB SIMMS installed, 
 the machine will only recognize a total of 10MB of RAM, not the 12MB that 
 is physically present. 
According to AppleSpec '98, those specs belong to the Mac LC II, not
the IIc series (which is the IIcx and IIci). The IIcx and IIci have
no on-board RAM, but have eight 30-pin sockets that can take the
machines up to 128MB (but on the IIcx you need extra software to 
use anything larger than 32MB).

regards,
-dq