What makes the Micron Xceed card attractive is it's ability to display 256k gray scale on the existing interior monitor. External color cards for the SE30 are not that rare. I have, and have run across, several different models. The one I have is probably the most common next to the Radius cards, a Lapis SE30 Server color card that will display on an external Mac or VGA color monitor. I picked it up for $30 on ebay a year ago. It came new in box with software and manuals. The SE30, even without a color card of any brand, can print in color as it has QuickTime programmed into the rom. I hope your friend does get top dollar for his card. But don't get his hopes up too high. The only ones I see going for high dollar amounts, are the ones that allow internal grayscale display.
-----Original Message----- From: Compact Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J.S. Garrison Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:13 PM To: Compact Macs Subject: Re: eh, what is this se/30 card on eBay? on 11/4/03 7:25 PM, Bryan Kattwinkel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 11/4/03 3:09 AM, Mark Koan wrote: > >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2763759187&category=4610 >> >> IS what he's saying true? What would this really trade >> for on the list? > > It's just a garden-variety Mac video card that happens to be made for the > SE/30 expansion slot. Any such card would work in color, require no > drivers, and turn on quickly; none of that is remarkable or indicative of > "acceleration". The Radius Pivot card for the SE/30 has all these > features, plus the ability to drive pivot monitors. > The more I'm reading, the more you accidentally tend to prove my point. How many Compact Mac owners have a Radius Pivot card lying around? A show of hands, please..... > On one point he is definitely wrong; there is no way a card made for the > SE/30 would work in an SE; the expansion slots are different. There are no distinguishing marks on the card. Opening an SE of mine, I discovered the slot in side it is a different length. I'll retract that statement in the auction. > A lot of hardware for the compact Macs is not described on the internet, > since it is all older than the world wide web. Rare? maybe just not very > popular. From our perspective, the ability to use a "standard" monitor > seems valuable, but back then the really big full page and dual page > monochrome monitors were much more attractive for desktop publishing. So far, I've been only unable to find anything about Dove, and this Memory Plus video card. Bear in mind, I believe the card will work with any non-multisync monitor with a DB 15 connector up to, say, 21 inches? > Such a device would not be worth more than $10 or $15 to me. All well and good. I stand by my original postulation in that regard. I'm selling it for a medically challenged friend. They deserve top dollar. Considering that, where color is present on the hard disk, an SE/30 can produce a quick, non-lagging non-system-slowing color image at 256 colors using this card and a standard DB15 monitor, I'll keep calling it an excellent alternative to the No-Longer-Available Micron Exceed. Jeff -- 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> --> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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> --> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
