I have a dream.... It's to own a really scarily modified SE/30. I've been collecting bits, but haven't collected an SE/30 yet.
The local Goodwill Store has one for $5 with a note on it that it boots but the mouse does not work. This is a Goodwill Computer store so they have plenty of mice with which to test it. No particular mouse is included wtih the unit. So I'm pretty sure this means that the ADB bus is damaged. Is there likely a simple fix for this? On a newer machine I'd just pull off the CUDA chip and replace it, but I'm betting there wasn't a CUDA chip back when the SE/30 was fresh and shiny. From looking at some of the schematics on Gamba's site, it looks like the ADB comes out of the VIA1. Is that a custom Apple chip or something which is more generally available? Is there any difference other than color between a yellow and a platinum SE/30? This one is yellow. I was surprised as I thought they were all platinum. Moving along... I went over to LEM and followed the link to Gamba's page which discusses a "homemade clone of the Micron Technology 'Xceed Gray-Scale 30' adapter". Gamba, is there a schematic or plans for this available anywhere? I wasn't quite clear after reading the page on a couple of details. Does one require the Xceed video card in order to use the gray scale adapter? And is it true that if one has an external monitor connected, the gray scale adapter is not active? Third, I read with interest the various attempts to get an ethernet card, video card and CPU upgrade into the case. Is the conclusion at this point that it is not doable? Might it work better with a different video card or is the Exceed the best choice for these experiments. If so, what makes it the best? So far I have some Daystar Turbo 040 upgrades and three different PDS slot adapters. I'm not sure that any of these are useful PDS slot adapters though. That is, I suspect that none of them are actually for the Turbo 040. One is a SuperMac "Dual PDS Adapter". I'm guessing that's no good for the Turbo 040 because the Turbo 040 plugs directly into a IIci cache slot and the IIci cache slot is reputedly different from the IIsi/SE30 slot. So I would guess that the adapter needs to do something to the SE/30 pinout before a Turbo 040 will work. I also have two Daystar 01-PSIAD-002P adapters. These each have a PLD on them and one slot is labeled "For Daystar Cache Cards Only" and the other is labeled "For PDS Cards Only". The big question here, is will these work with the Turbo 040 or are they for an older Daystar upgrade? The Goodwill store also has at least one Mac Con in their bins. I think they also have one with the card that plugs into the motherboard, but not the other card which connects to the cable. Sigh. I haven't seen anything like a video card for the SE/30, though. Of course, the stuff in the bins changes regularly. Last question group. Has it been confirmed that the IIfx ROM will work in the SE/30? Does it work well? What about the IIsi ROM? Is the IIci ROM differnt from the IIsi? I had a mystery ROM in my collection and just identified it as an SE/30 ROM. A local parts store (Howard Electronics) gave it to me when they found that I was into Macs. The thing that puzzles me is that this ROM bears four Atmel 27C512 chips which should add up to 256 Kbytes of storage. Yet the silk screening on the ROM says "512K ROM SIMM". Jeff Walther -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
