IIci acquisition
The IIci is a great little machine. I set mine up with the Apple Portrait Display on top, like I saw a MiniII setup in a movie, and listed her on my network as "WordWright." Definitely NOT MS Word, I used ClarisWorks on her, but it was a wonderful little word processing setup. The only problem was that it put the APD just a little too high for comfort and I transferred it to the top of a MicroQuadraFeetsMac™ (AKA Q605) as soon as I nabbed one. That put it at just the right height to sit next to my 20" Radius PrecisionView. The IIci remained hooked up via KVM, but I never used it much thereafter.
It went away with a lot of other goodies about four years ago. :-/
Luckily my Quadra 700s were in my apartment at the time! I was collecting 700s (and hacking them, of course [
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It went away with a lot of other goodies about four years ago. :-/
Luckily my Quadra 700s were in my apartment at the time! I was collecting 700s (and hacking them, of course [
] ]'> ) as CinderBlocks for a TechnoGeek takeoff on the classic DIY Bookshelf. [)] ]'>In all fairness its been about 10 years since I owned a 68k mac :O
back when, I came to a computer salvage dealer who had a skid of IIci's and IIcx's ... in my total ignorance on the subject I got the IIcx (sigh) but it was a ok machine and after years of ownership I sold it to a mac head collecting 68k's so all is well
I like IIcis so much that when I had the chance a couple years ago, I grabbed four of them. They had all been clustered together as some sort of server; I forget the specifics, but I pulled the original hard disks instead of wiping them, so I might revisit that later.
Trash80toHP_Mini: That's my kind of setup. I'm still kicking myself because I had a Macintosh Portrait Display a long time ago, but my mom convinced me to give it to Goodwill because I didn't have the right cables to run it. Of course, years down the road, I ended up using a Quadra as a writing machine, and sorely miss that display. For the record, after that Portrait Display, I was so horrified at what I had been talked into that I haven't gotten rid of anything since.
Trash80toHP_Mini: That's my kind of setup. I'm still kicking myself because I had a Macintosh Portrait Display a long time ago, but my mom convinced me to give it to Goodwill because I didn't have the right cables to run it. Of course, years down the road, I ended up using a Quadra as a writing machine, and sorely miss that display. For the record, after that Portrait Display, I was so horrified at what I had been talked into that I haven't gotten rid of anything since.
Unless you've got a lot of extensions and control panels installed, I'd say your problem is that you have 32 bit addressing turned off. With 32 bit addressing turned off, the system cannot access any more than the first 8MB of RAM. The remaining memory simply gets reported as being used by the system software. Turn on 32 bit addressing and restart, and you should be able to use a lot more RAM.