Just a quickie update. the IIvx still lives. I dropped a 1GB Quantum in and cloned the system over to it. the speed difference for bootup and program loading was like night and day. makes me wonder if a really crap hard drive was just used in these things. the 1GB quantum is SO MUCH FASTER at loading up 7.6 than the 230 was in every which way, it's amazing.

Dropped onto IRC with it yesterday, too:



Still have yet to re-cap it or have the money to do so.

also tried my 8/24GC card in it, got some interesting results with a working monitor:



...which turned out to be a bad stick of RAM. after removing the problem stick...:



works great! but afterwards it doesn't seem to like my Dell monitor...:



Sync-on-Green much?