2 Feb
2002
2 Feb
'02
5:46 p.m.
Let the Holy Wars commence!
Seriously, I have a chance to trade some PC stuff for either a IIsi or
a IIci. Both are barebones - no harddrives, adapters or RAM. Looking
at LowEndMac and Apple support, I'm leaning toward the IIci, but I
thought for once I'd take advice *before* the aquisition. It'll
probably run either A/UX or Linux/m68k.
My main concern is RAM. They'll both take <100ns 30-pin non-parity,
right? Any other gotchas? Yes, I have a Nubus video card.
Doc
2 Feb
2 Feb
6:28 p.m.
Seriously, I have a chance to trade some PC stuff
for either a IIsi or
a IIci. Both are barebones - no harddrives, adapters or RAM. Looking
at LowEndMac and Apple support, I'm leaning toward the IIci, but I
thought for once I'd take advice *before* the aquisition. It'll
probably run either A/UX or Linux/m68k.
My main concern is RAM. They'll both take <100ns 30-pin non-parity,
right? Any other gotchas? Yes, I have a Nubus video card.
Take the IIci. Three NuBus slots, one PDS, up to 128MB RAM, on-board FPU.
The IIsi is a cute little machine, but the IIci is much more practical. If
you're just being offered a choice between a bare IIci and bare IIsi, take
the IIci.
That said, I enjoy IIsis and they are nice and small units. The first Mac
I actually owned was a IIsi. However, I have two IIcis -- one will run A/UX
soon, and the other runs NetBSD/mac68k and powers the apartment network.
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6:40 p.m.
My main
concern is RAM. They'll both take <100ns 30-pin non-parity,
right? Any other gotchas? Yes, I have a Nubus video card.
Take the IIci. 
3 Feb
3 Feb
5:24 a.m.
On Sunday 03 February 2002 00:28, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I have 2 CI's siting on the shelf with an SI labelled as spare parts. I
wasn't aware that the CI would run A/UX or BSD.
With 32 Meg how well do these run?
Does the CI equire any upgrades?
Seriously, I
have a chance to trade some PC stuff for either a IIsi
or a IIci. Both are barebones - no harddrives, adapters or RAM.
Looking at LowEndMac and Apple support, I'm leaning toward the IIci,
but I thought for once I'd take advice *before* the aquisition.
It'll probably run either A/UX or Linux/m68k.
My main concern is RAM. They'll both take <100ns 30-pin
non-parity, right? Any other gotchas? Yes, I have a Nubus video
card.
That said, I enjoy IIsis and they are nice and small units. The first
Mac I actually owned was a IIsi. However, I have two IIcis -- one will
run A/UX soon, and the other runs NetBSD/mac68k and powers the
apartment network. 
6:08 a.m.
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Mike wrote:
On Sunday 03 February 2002 00:28, Cameron Kaiser
wrote:
I have 2 CI's siting on the shelf with an SI labelled as spare parts. I
wasn't aware that the CI would run A/UX or BSD.
With 32 Meg how well do these run?
Does the CI equire any upgrades?
I've got my Mac IIsi running Debian 2.2 (?) on only 6M of RAM... I haven't
tried to run X or anything, but (framebuffer) text-mode works just fine,
and I can access the network just fine with it.
-- Pat
Seriously, I have a chance to trade some PC stuff for either a IIsi
or a IIci. Both are barebones - no harddrives, adapters or RAM.
Looking at LowEndMac and Apple support, I'm leaning toward the IIci,
but I thought for once I'd take advice *before* the aquisition.
It'll probably run either A/UX or Linux/m68k.
My main concern is RAM. They'll both take <100ns 30-pin
non-parity, right? Any other gotchas? Yes, I have a Nubus video
card.
That said, I enjoy IIsis and they are nice and small units. The first
Mac I actually owned was a IIsi. However, I have two IIcis -- one will
run A/UX soon, and the other runs NetBSD/mac68k and powers the
apartment network. 
3:11 p.m.
I've got my Mac IIsi running Debian 2.2 (?) on
only 6M of RAM... I haven't
tried to run X or anything, but (framebuffer) text-mode works just fine,
and I can access the network just fine with it.
-- Pat
Wish I could do something like that with the IIfx with 32mb of memory...
but the IIfx is too wierd for support in Linux or *BSD.
Perhaps I'll reload A/UX.
Bill
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8:51 a.m.
That said, I
enjoy IIsis and they are nice and small units. The first
Mac I actually owned was a IIsi. However, I have two IIcis -- one will
run A/UX soon, and the other runs NetBSD/mac68k and powers the
apartment network.
I have 2 CI's siting on the shelf with an SI labelled as spare parts. I
wasn't aware that the CI would run A/UX or BSD.
With 32 Meg how well do these run?
Does the CI equire any upgrades? 
2 Feb
2 Feb
7:18 p.m.
IIci. Much more versitle than the IIsi. (I own both. Find a Diimo 50mhz
card for the ci and you'll really have a hotrod.) The IIsi is a "Low End
Mac".
Jim
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