Did Apple ever offer an official Mac II/IIx to IIfx upgrade?

Yes. And surprisingly this info is still on their servers.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA33185?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

I bought an upgraded Mac II from Beachycove a couple of months back. It has a IIfx board, and IIfx badging on the bottom cover (only the front cover still has the "Macintosh II" badging). I also have the Apple Upgrade Kit guide for the IIfx. I can scan it if you like. 

Since Cine's site is still up, we over on IRC figure the forum got deleted. Hope for a backup!

Nope, was just curious.  I almost bought a Macintosh II.  If I had, I'd've probably put a IIfx mobo in it at some point.

Cinemafia.net sure seems to be offline from my end. I get the vDeck parked page just like I get for 68kmla.net.

Are you sure your cache isn't being displayed?

Peace,
Drew

http://www.stevenmatarazzo.com/oldmac/AppleGuides/Macintosh_CPUs_and_Expansion_Cards/Macintosh_IIfx_Logic_Board_Upgrade.pdf

This.

Doesn't look like you get a badge, which would explain the Mac II that I have that has a IIfx board.  Came from a stash not used since the 90's, so I'm thinking it would have been a genuine upgrade.

It was working earlier.

I really hope that the 68kMLA comes back up... That's such a treasure trove of information.
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• B&W Power Macintosh G4
  
• Power Macintosh 6500/225

I have one. It says "Macintosh II" on the front, has a IIfx board and an injection molded plastic plate that says "Macintosh IIfx" with the corresponding model number, copyright and FCC info, etc. stuck over the place where the original bottom tub molding says "Macintosh II" and the rest of it. Just like Concorde1993 describes.

Mine also has a Microsoft property tag on it. But that's another story. 

Unfortunately, I don't have anyones email address from 68KMLA except Dana's so there is no one I can contact about the site.

I've emailed Dana to see if she knows anything.
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I no longer have a clue how many residents there are - I think they are waking up while I'm asleep and multiplying

I have an original II with IIfx upgrade (sticker on the bottom). A stock Mac II is pretty rare these days.

I only have 6 or so...

Reminds me that I need to test and sell off the excess.

I emailed tomlevens 2 days ago but he did not respond yet.
I hope that the 68kmla will come back...

If it doesn't, we can probably recreate the site from saved bits and pieces as well as perhaps The Wayback Machine.

Update: I traced down a gmail address for Cinemafia and dropped him a line. Maybe I'll get a response.
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I no longer have a clue how many residents there are - I think they are waking up while I'm asleep and multiplying

I almost bought another Mac II form Ebay a couple weeks ago, but it had evil caps. I am glad I have the first revision, only a couple motherboard caps that may go bad. Wonder why they switch to the tony tin trash can caps.

Most of the "IIfx" machines that you see for sale on ebay are actually upgraded II/IIx machines. You can see in the photos accompanying the listings that the cases have Macintosh II or IIx on the case fronts. A "real" IIfx is harder to find. Upgrading an older machine to a IIfx by swapping motherboards was cheaper than buying an actual IIfx so many users of the older machines opted to go that route instead. It was like upgrading an Apple IIe to a IIGS, but in that case the upgraded IIe's are actually more than rare than actual IIGS's because not many people saw the advantage and the Macintosh was already on the horizon at that time. 

I bought a IIfx not long ago even though I figured the board would be destroyed by cap and battery rot just because it was in an actual IIfx case. 

I figured all those early adapter Mac II buyers had a good reason to upgrade to a IIfx motherboard (superdrives being a good reason since software was no longer coming out in DD disks). IIx's were not sold that long compared to the original II.

Both of my IIfx were original IIfx cases. One of them was kind of yellowed so I purchased a IIfx case which was actually a II upgraded to IIfx (liked the novelty of it). Still have the yellowed case in the garage.

Replacing caps on the II series is easy, much easier then a Classic II compact that for sure.

I think that the sense of community was one of the greatest losses of the 68kMLA.
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• Power Macintosh G4
  
• B&W Power Macintosh G4
  
• Power Macintosh 6500/225

I don't think it would really work out - I've never really used IRC before (I just about know how to connect but don't know how to do anything else really, and don't know all the etiquette/conventions of it) and I'm too shy anyway, I don't suppose I'd ever be able to say anything!



See ya all around though hopefully!
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Main Mac: Beige G3 minitower (Sonnet G4 500MHz/640 MB DVD/USB/Radeon 32 MB/OS 9.2.2+10.4.11)

Well I don't suppose I'll be missed much! You can say all you like about Windows and I won't be there to stand up for it... As I said, I expect it'll only be a few days anyway


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/me also sheds a tear for the mla! it appears as if irc is down too...

After a little searching I finally found you guys. Anyone have any idea what happened to 68k or if it will come back. If not then I guess I busted down to private.

Welcome!

iMac600 seems to have been talking with Tom Levens a bit, and the current rumor is that the 68kMLA's server's hard drive died. Supposedly, Tom et al. are working on restoring the forum.

I wish them luck! I haven't tried contacting Tom, Cine, or any of the other gods of the 68kMLA, but I'm certainly willing to help if they need it. I figure the admins will ask for help if they need it, and rather than spam them with a deluge of email asking about the forum, we can use the PPCMLA until they get back on their feet (and, I hope, continue using the PPCMLA for PowerPC Mac discussion thereafter).

This thread over on the 'Fritter has some good info about the 68kMLA's situation.

Peace,
Drew

you know, I had a dream last night that 68kmla was back up, but we lost everything, and just built a new forum. But nobody seened to care, we were just so happy.

grr, that sad mac is staring me in the face. I cant seem to find the reset switch...

-digital

Well the sad mac is an improvement over that vDeck error page from a couple of days ago.

While I will miss the 68kMLA and hope for it's eventual return, I am glad I have found this forum. I like the look and feel. It's great and I will continue my membership / activity even (when) the 68kMLA returns.

I'm still waiting for Gambas' site to go offline. He's been dead for how long now? I hope someone saved all his pages offline because they are irreplaceable.