ICONIC WORKHORSE 1990 APPLE MACINTOSH IICI WITH NUBUS RASTEROPS VIDEO CARD

UP FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IS A RARELY SEEN MACINTOSH IICI FROM 1990 PART OF THE ICONIC MAC 2 LINE OF OLD APPLE MAC COMPUTERS. ITS ROBUST, COMPACT AND EASY TO WORK ON. I WORKED ON THIS COMPUTER AT MY FIRST JOB FOR OVER 3 YEARS. THE SERIAL NUMBER FOR THIS COMPUTER IS ER203OES711.
 
IT HAS A 160MB QUANTUM SCSI HARDDRIVE WITH SYSTEM 7.5.3 AND SOME OLD PROGRAMMES LIKE QUARK 3.1, PAGEMAKER 5, FREEHAND 5 INSTALLED. HARDDRIVE WAS TESTED INDEPENDENTLY AND IS IN WORKING CONDITION. IT HAS 32MB OF RAM INSTALLED ALL RAM MODULES APPEAR TO BE WORKING.
 
IT HAS AN NUBUS RASTEROPS VIDEO CARD INSTALLED THAT IS IN WORKING CONDITION. IT ALSO HAS A 10 BASE T NETWORK CARD INSTALLED IN WORKING CONDITION. A CACHE CARD IS ALSO INSTALLED BUT IS FRIED AND NOT IN WORKING CONDITION.
 
IT HAS A FLOPPY DRIVE INSTALLED AND HAS AN EXTERNAL FLOPPY PORT AT THE BACK BUT I COULD NOT TEST BOTH. THE SCSI PORT (FOR EXTERNAL DRIVES), MONITOR PORT AND TWO ADB PORTS 9FOR MOUSE AND KEYBOARD) AT THE BACK ARE IN WORKING CONDITION TESTED BY ME. THE MAC INSELF DID START UP ONCE RECENTLY (PLEASE SEE PHOTOS) BUT WILL NEED A NEW PRAM BATTERY TO FUNCTION AGAIN.
 
I STARTED WORKING ON MY NEW MAC IICX AT THE PRINTERS AND IT WAS THE MAC THAT EVERYONE COVETED. AFTER THE COMPANY FOLDED IN 1995 I WAS GIVEN THIS MAC AS PART OF MY SEVERANCE PACKAGE.
 
THE MACINTOSH IICI (1987-1993):
The Macintosh IICI introduced in 1987 was the sequel to the original Macintosh 128 of 1984. It was well received and became one of the most successfull computer series of all time. The Mac II line featured a easy SNAPON CASE AND 3 NUBUS expansion slots (forerunner of 1990s Apple PCI slots)! IT GAVE YOU THE FREEDOM TO EXPAND AS YOU PLEASE. If need be, one could easily open up the machine to add new drives, memory or expansion cards like network cards or video cards. The Macintosh IIci Macintosh IIci was sold from September 1989 to February 1993.

The Macintosh IIci was the fastest mac at the time and contained a 32 bit Motorola 68030 microprocessor which ran at  whopping 25 MHz (up from the 8MHz from the first Mac 128). It had 8 x 30pin SIMM 1MB OR 4MB Ram slots up to a maximum of 128MB RAM (no on board RAM). It initially had a 1.4MB Floppy super disk drive. It ran on a operating system of System 6.0.4 to OS 7.6.1 (the system that was installed on this computer was OS7.5.3). The IIci originally came with either a 40- or an 80-megabyte hard disk.
 
Apart from the standard Level 1 256 bytes Cache (short term memory) an optional 32 KB Level 2 cache card could be fitted into the Processor Direct Slot. Cache is the temporary memory that lets you access some information more quickly than if you access it from your computer's main hard drive.
 
A first for a Macintosh the Mac IIci had onboard graphics for an external display. This freed one of the system's three NUBUS slots. However, because the integrated graphics used the system's RAM for its framebuffer some users used a NuBus graphics card to reclaim the lost memory. I chose to install A Radius NuBus video card so I could drive a 1280×1024 CRT monitor with thousands of colors.
 
I also installed a NuBus 10baseT network card to connect to our in-house AppleTalk (Apples early network protocol before TCP/IP took over in the early 2000s) computer network at the time
 
THE IICI WAS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND LONGEST-LIVED MACINTOSH MODELS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. FOR MUCH OF ITS LIFESPAN, IT WAS THE BUSINESS "WORKHORSE" OF THE MACINTOSH LINE. The Macintosh Quadra 700 introduced at the end of 1991 as Apple's mainstream workstation product to replace the IIci, albeit at a significantly higher price point: by this time, Apple authorized resellers were offering entry-level IIci systems for US$4,000 or less.
 
SIZE: HEIGHT 14CM WIDTH 30CM DEPTH 37CM WEIGHT 6.2KG
 
CONDITION: ONLY MAC INCLUDED IN LISTING. NO MONITOR, KEYBOARD OR MOUSE. POWER LIGHTS LID UP BUT DOES NOT START UP AND HAS NO DISPLAY. THE FRONT LED LIGHT LIDS UP AS DOES THE LIGHT ON THE 10BASE T NETWORK CARD. AS FAR AS I CAN TELL IT NEEDS A NEW PRAM BATTERY. I DID MANAGE TO START UP THIS MAC ONCE BY USING SOME RESIDUAL POWER IN THE MONITOR. (PLEASE SEE PHOTOS). NOT SURE WHAT ELEMENTS (POWER SUPPLY, BATTERY, CPU, MOTHER BOARD, CACHE CARD, VIDEO CARD, NETWORK CARD, RAM MODULES, FLOPPY DRIVE, HARD DRIVE) ARE STILL WORKING BUT CHANCES ARE MOST OF THEM WILL STILL BE IN WORKING CONDITION AND ONLY A NEW PRAM BATTERY NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED.
 
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