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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