Mac IIsi vs. IIci

From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Sun Feb 3 11:08:49 2002

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Mike wrote:

> On Sunday 03 February 2002 00:28, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> 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
Received on Sun Feb 03 2002 - 11:08:49 GMT