At 02:34 PM 6/23/98 PDT, you wrote:
>A Mac II is a 68020 or higher machine, the descendant of regular macs.
>Video was on an expansion card. 5 NuBus slots, I think. Room for two
>hard drives and two floppy drives (If you could ship me the ROM and RAM
Actually, room for 2 floppies and 1 hard drive, either 3.5" or 5.25"
half-height. (I suppose, if you were really creative, you could mount a
3.5" hd where the second floppy went, but you might have power problems.)
Drives were mounted on a metal platform above the HD. Had 8 30-pin SIMM
slots; not sure what (if any) the max RAM was. Standard was probably 4Meg.
>Other models in this series were:
Mac IIx - 68030?
Mac IIfx
Mac IIvx (iirc)
All shared the larger, almost pc-like box. Pop-off top to the case, making
it easy to get inside, but you needed a special bracket to mount the hard
drive on (which then was mounted to the platform.)
>Mac IIci - Narrower case with one space for HDD, one for FDD, three
>slots, video on the board
Probably my favorite Mac case. Similar but different. About 2/3 the width
of the II. Drives are now stacked, with the Hard Drive simply snapping
into the case (once you put it in its custom carrier.) Memory is easy to
get at, still had 3 expansion slots. 68030 at 33mhz, on-board video.
IIcx used the same case (same, but no video, maybe slower CPU?)
>Mac IIsi - Same, but a more modern case
Slimmer case, slightly slower than the IIci (20mhz?). Similar to the LC
models. One non-nubus slot; adapters were available.
>>place today that said "Macintosh II", big long box... about 2.5 feet
If anyone's interested, I'll be bringing some mac II cases (with M/B & P/S,
but won't boot (prolly dead battery)) to VCF 2.0 to sell or trade. They're
machines that I got for Rachel's classroom, that I scrounged for parts.
She's getting tired of having a stack of mac's in her basement all the
time. (And if I get rid of those, plus some huge monitors she can't use,
she can store the computers from school at her place over the summer
instead of at my place.)
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Received on Thu Jun 25 1998 - 00:35:42 BST