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By the time I managed to get my hands on an SE/30 (borrowed from a college) the price was 'down' to $3500. Instead I settled for a IIsi (20MHz 68030 instead of

By the time I managed to get my hands on an SE/30 (borrowed from a college) the price was 'down' to $3500. Instead I settled for a IIsi (20MHz 68030 instead of 15-2/3MHz, same RAM, less expansion, no L-2 cache). The IIsi killed its floppy-drive because the fan sucked dust through it. It was then that I discovered that in 1991 a replacement 'Superdrive' floppy cost $400 (~ price of iPhone 12 Pro today). I wonder if Bukowski's IIsi died that way. [https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukowski-william-burroughs-and-the-computer/ https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukow...]

nix23 5y ago
>The IIsi killed its floppy-drive because the fan sucked dust through it. Wow, thanks for solving one of my childhood mysteries, now i know why my dad had always some tape over the floppy-drive on his IIsi :)
- hugi 5y ago
  And now I know why the floppy drive on our IIsi died :)
  - nix23 5y ago
    Well it did not....probably because of no dust in it? ;)
    - nix23 5y ago
      > Well it did not....probably because of no dust in it? ;) Sorry misread the "our" ;)
monocultured 5y ago
Ah memories. My first "own" computer was an inherited IIsi with a A4 16 grayscale monitor. Even when it was way past its usefulness I still tricked it out with max RAM and a Nubus FPU. Never ran into the dust problem though…
sokoloff 5y ago
I had a work-assigned IIsi that I swapped the crystal on (against my boss’ wishes). I seem to recall I went from a 40MHz crystal to 50MHz (CPU clock being half of that, so went from 20MHz to 25MHz to compare closely with the IIci of the day), but it’s been a few decades.