03-03-2010, 03:51 PM
Sunday I decided to see if my IIci, purchased for $3600 in December of 1991, was still among the living. I had last booted up maybe 2 years ago, at which time it fired up nicely. This time it was completely unresponsive.
It was a sad moment. I suspect that the power supply is defunct, given the total lack of response.
At one time, I actually had a spare power supply for it sitting around here, but I am pretty sure that I tossed it out in a feeble attempt at clutter reduction.
Would I be out of my mind to try to find another power supply? The plucky little machine has 80MB of RAM, a very sizable amount for a machine of that vintage. It also has an ethernet card and a (found in a curbside IIci) Radius graphics card.
It was a sad moment. I suspect that the power supply is defunct, given the total lack of response.
At one time, I actually had a spare power supply for it sitting around here, but I am pretty sure that I tossed it out in a feeble attempt at clutter reduction.
Would I be out of my mind to try to find another power supply? The plucky little machine has 80MB of RAM, a very sizable amount for a machine of that vintage. It also has an ethernet card and a (found in a curbside IIci) Radius graphics card.