Mac IIci questions

2002-11-01 Thread Shannon
I've been reasonably successful getting a "new" Mac IIci together. I got a Mac IIci, 128MB of RAM, a Daystar accelerator, and a Radis Thunder GT graphics card. The machine is still awfully slow running iCab. Otherwise, the accelerator had a huge impact on speed. I also noticed some anomalies

Re: Mac IIci Questions

2002-07-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
> I have some more questions about my Mac IIci. > > First off, I am thinking of adding a Daystar 030 Direct Slot 50 Mhz > accelerator, but this would require the removal of my Apple Mac IIci cache > card. Question: Would this increase or decrease performance? Increase, and quite some. For me

Re: Mac IIci Questions

2002-07-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- DeVaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone -- me again! > > I have some more questions about my Mac IIci. > > First off, I am thinking of adding a Daystar 030 > Direct Slot 50 Mhz > accelerator, but this would require the removal of > my Apple Mac IIci cache > card. Question: Would t

Re: Mac IIci Questions

2002-07-12 Thread Steven
> I know there are limitations on the power supply of a Mac IIsi, but are > there any on the Mac IIci? > What are the limitations for the IIsi?? My friend has one. She has the Daystar 50mhz, maxed out the Ram, 500mb internal, 500mb external, and a external CD-ROM. Don't remember how much RAM, b

Re: Mac IIci Questions

2002-07-12 Thread the pickle
At 20:37 -0400 on 12/07/02, DeVaul wrote: >First off, I am thinking of adding a Daystar 030 Direct Slot 50 Mhz >accelerator, but this would require the removal of my Apple Mac IIci cache >card. Question: Would this increase or decrease performance? The Increase, by about a factor of two. The

Re: Mac IIci Questions

2002-07-12 Thread William Ahearn
--- DeVaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone -- me again! > > I have some more questions about my Mac IIci. > > First off, I am thinking of adding a Daystar 030 > Direct Slot 50 Mhz > accelerator, but this would require the removal of > my Apple Mac IIci cache > card. Question: Would t

Mac IIci Questions

2002-07-12 Thread DeVaul
Hi Everyone -- me again! I have some more questions about my Mac IIci. First off, I am thinking of adding a Daystar 030 Direct Slot 50 Mhz accelerator, but this would require the removal of my Apple Mac IIci cache card. Question: Would this increase or decrease performance? The accelerator ca

Re: Mac IIci questions

2002-07-07 Thread the pickle
Apologies for the 24-hour delay but a certain rogue listnanny (not one for this list) has decided he has a personal vendetta against me. Dan has been notified. At 19:09 -0400 on 06/07/02, Jason Trunzo wrote: >By the '040 card do you mean Sonnet's 040 Presto card? If so, that >substantially inc

Re: Mac IIci questions

2002-07-07 Thread the pickle
Apologies for the 24-hour delay but a certain rogue listnanny (not one for this list) has decided he has a personal vendetta against me. Dan has been notified. At 19:12 -0700 on 06/07/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: >It's an 040, best it will do is 8.1. If it's the >DayStar Turbo 040 it's even better

Re: Mac IIci questions

2002-07-06 Thread Scott Holder
At 07:09 PM 7/6/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Howdee! >By the '040 card do you mean Sonnet's 040 Presto card? If so, that >substantially increases your processing speed (to 55 or 60mhz I >think) and allows you to run up to OS 8.6 on your IIci. 8.6 requires a PPC to run. An 040 will only run up to 8.1

Re: Mac IIci questions

2002-07-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jason Trunzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdee! > By the '040 card do you mean Sonnet's 040 Presto > card? If so, that > substantially increases your processing speed (to 55 > or 60mhz I > think) and allows you to run up to OS 8.6 on your > IIci. It's an 040, best it will do is 8.1. I

Re: Mac IIci questions

2002-07-06 Thread Jason Trunzo
> I have a ci with 8 megs ram that seems to have a >troubled floppy drive. I'd like to swap in a floppy >drive pulled from a LC II, and I removed the Hard >Drive which sits upon this plastic partition. The >floppy drive seems entombed beneath this plastic >partition, and I'm wondering what's the

Re: Mac IIci questions

2002-07-05 Thread Mark Koan
I have a ci with 8 megs ram that seems to have a troubled floppy drive. I'd like to swap in a floppy drive pulled from a LC II, and I removed the Hard Drive which sits upon this plastic partition. The floppy drive seems entombed beneath this plastic partition, and I'm wondering what's the best wa