I'm not one to trash a perfectly good Mac, but...
.. The IIvx is a definite Road Apple. Its architecture is crippled, its CD drive bezel is caddy-loader-compatible only, and IMHO it's butt-ugly.
I got a couple of IIvx's a few years ago as part of a large (free) haul of 68k Macs. Here's what I did with them:
- Took a sharp utility knife and sliced the soldered-on 68882 FPU chips off the mobos. These went to good homes in other Mac users' computers (i.e. IIsi's and CC's). It's a little-known fact, but you can indeed just slice these off and use them in machines that take a socketed 68882. And the IIvx is one of the only Macs that (a) has a soldered-on 68882, and ( B) is worthless enough to justify slicing it off for re-use in other Macs.
- Removed one of the CD drives, put it in a spare case, and used it as an A/UX install drive (A/UX will only work properly with the old Apple 1X and 2X drives, most of which are caddy loaders).
- Sold the PSUs to folks who needed them for Macs that used the same form factor (i.e. Q650s).
- Donated the mobos to an artist who was making a circuit board sculpture.
- Dumped the cases at my local computer recycler - a nonprofit that gets paid for the scrap metal.
IMHO, I think this was a very good way to make the IIvx's useful to the Mac universe in a way that far exceeds the actual value and usability of the computers themselves.
Best,
Matt
.. The IIvx is a definite Road Apple. Its architecture is crippled, its CD drive bezel is caddy-loader-compatible only, and IMHO it's butt-ugly.
I got a couple of IIvx's a few years ago as part of a large (free) haul of 68k Macs. Here's what I did with them:
- Took a sharp utility knife and sliced the soldered-on 68882 FPU chips off the mobos. These went to good homes in other Mac users' computers (i.e. IIsi's and CC's). It's a little-known fact, but you can indeed just slice these off and use them in machines that take a socketed 68882. And the IIvx is one of the only Macs that (a) has a soldered-on 68882, and ( B) is worthless enough to justify slicing it off for re-use in other Macs.
- Removed one of the CD drives, put it in a spare case, and used it as an A/UX install drive (A/UX will only work properly with the old Apple 1X and 2X drives, most of which are caddy loaders).
- Sold the PSUs to folks who needed them for Macs that used the same form factor (i.e. Q650s).
- Donated the mobos to an artist who was making a circuit board sculpture.
- Dumped the cases at my local computer recycler - a nonprofit that gets paid for the scrap metal.
IMHO, I think this was a very good way to make the IIvx's useful to the Mac universe in a way that far exceeds the actual value and usability of the computers themselves.
Best,
Matt