The choice is yours, of course, but it were a pity to pass up a smart performer because it came to you bedraggled and abused, whether that was by time or mishandling. IIci MLBs are not often offered for sale, so the cure for the MLB's woes has always to be TLC, elbow-grease and replacement of components. If the PSU is working correctly, you have a real find. It would be a shame to pass up an 030 that can use 128MB of RAM as well as 7.6.1. Apart from the compactness of the SE/30, there's not much that the IIci cannot do better, especially with its NuBus slots and colour-video.

A IIci with a DayStar PowerCache (33, 40 or 50MHz 030), Turbo 040 (25, 33 or 40MHz) or PowerPC 601 (66, 80 or 100MHz) is a real performer. The cards are plug'n'play (need no adapter) in the IIci's PDS (cache) slot. Even with none of those, at 25MHz it is a good performer with its native 030.

Besides, you're a soldier in the 68k MLA, no?

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