>It is uses a 25mhz Motorola 68030 processor. What would be the
>approximate Intel/PC equivalent? The 386DX-25? The 486DX-25? faster,
>slower, what? I don't have much Mac experience at all. I own a Plus,
>but after cleaning it, I haven't done anything with it but let it sit,
>mainly because of the silly 800K drives.
The 68030 and 68040 were roughly equivelent to 80386 and 80486
(respectively). Clock speed to Clock speed. There didn't start to be
major differences until the PPC chip line. But frankly, that is just
"rough analogy" as what you run will make huge differences in performance.
The only thing that can be tough about the IIci is that is uses 30pin non
parity simms, which are starting to be harder and harder to find
inexpensively. The IIci *might* be able to work with parity simms, not
sure (early macs could NOT, but some of the later ones IIRC could use
parity or non parity)
>It has a Radius video card, but unfortunately, the Radius monitor got
>sold separately. It was a "Pivot" monitor. I pulled the monitor of the
>nonfunctioning IIcx and the ci boots fine, and is running System 7.1.
>How much should I offer?
The IIci has a built in video card as well. You can use a standard Apple
RGB monitor with it, or get an RGB to VGA adaptor (or I can send you the
pinouts for making a good one), and use any VGA or SVGA monitor.
As far as what to offer... as little as you can get away with. The
machine is decent, but at this point, low end PPCs are winding up in
dumpsters. So unless you WANT the IIci compared to you just want A
useable mac... I wouldn't pay much more than about $10.
-chris
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