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so.. Ive been busy lately, as I've kind of alluded to in some of my build posts.. I've been keeping my eyes and ears open the past few months and have come up with quite a few acquisitions.. so since May... 3 SE/30s... one of which has been detailed in my "toledogeek's SE/30 build" thread...

dont give up... i had one like that... i got mostly working, with the exception i cant get the SCSI to write. wash the board and use a nylon then a BRASS brush to get the crap off. if you have access to an ultrasonic tank, it'll do you good. let it run in the take for an hour or so. once you...

my PowerCache works flawlessly in the TwinSpark. its the 40Mhz socketed version.

i did. i already had a DB15 wired up for these cards, so i just removed the DB15 connector from the MacCon's board and installed mine in the void left behind.  I didnt want to hard wire the cable, as it would make it a pain to disassemble.

you have the order right, and the powercache sits in the cache slot of the TwinSpark. I'll take a photo of the cut when i get home, but as long as you keep your cut just outside the traces you'll be fine. make sure you dont short the center layers together, as they are +5 and GND. jumpers are...

I wanted to build a SE/30 as good as i could make it. it took a bit of doing, and too much money, but here goes. The specs: 68030 @ 40Mhz via Daystar Powercache Artmix TwinSpark 128MB RAM 16GB SSD via a SCSI2SD COLOR graphics /2nd monitor via a modified Radius Pivot Ethernet via an Asante...

The speakers are about 1"x3"x1" so, easy to fit nearly anywhere. they are NOT shielded, so you have to keep that in mind in your builds.

it was some random vizio that was getting scrapped. i have no idea what the model was. the audio amps in these are not very particular on load.. as long as it isn't below 4 ohm it should be ok. tiny speakers have come a long way in just the past 10 years, so its a worthy upgrade for a lot of...

thought about that, but i needed the CRT for a SE/30 that had some pretty nasty burn in. i might switch it once i find another CRT/hopeless compact. in the meantime, it'll be getting a bigger SSD once my compact flash cards arrive. Ive also swapped the speaker from a flat-panel TV in there. its...

I found a laptop "blower" style fan to fit next to the heatsink, so now the temps are in the happy range. it just barely fits between the RAM and ROM/cache SIMMs. I'm running the rear fan as in intake and not exhaust, which seems to work better. the rear fan is running @ 8V and the CPU fan at...

Thanks! But no, its not epic, it was a convenient hack/case mod job using what i had laying around. it required no real technical skill or knowledge. it took about 6 man hours total, so no real struggle, things worked out pretty naturally. that being said, it accomplished what i was shooting...

the monitors come up on eBay every once in a while, its an old Point of Sale monitor, it's actually multisync! (640x480, 800x600) and connects though VGA. i just used one of those NEC mac adapters. other than that, i used the video out board that was on the performa. So, MoBo edge connector...

a couple days ago It dawned on me that i don't think I've ever seen someone build a Monochrome AND PowerPC mac classic. there are plenty of threads around dealing with color classics, which, honestly, don't look all that great at 640x480. Parts used in the build: Mac Classic - completely...

Hello all, long time lurker, first time poster. Like many of you, Ive been trying out the super-cheap radius pivot color card in my SE/30. Ive ordered a TwinSpark card, but who knows when/if it'll arrive. besides, i'm pretty sure it STILL wont fit. so what to do? My solution might not be the...