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Hi all, I finally got some time off work, so I took the opportunity to clean up some Apple Extended Keyboards I had. They turned out almost immaculate! The AEK II was from 1989, and was in pretty good condition already, but the original AEK was badly yellowed and really filthy. My...

I know a few other people have tried getting a Daystar Turbo 601 working in their SE/30, but I thought I'd share my experiences. I tried installing a 100mhz Turbo 601 in my SE/30 using a Twinspark Adapter. I experimented with various ROM's using the BMOW ROM Simm Programmer and here's the...

Well I don't care what you all say, but recapping with tantalum capacitors is HARD! Last time I tried, I gave up and switched to electrolytics - which I found much easier. That said, this time I had success... I bought this NOS motherboard over a year ago, still in original packaging. Apart...

I've been scrounging parts for a while now to somehow upgrade an SE/30 to a colour screen. I finally started piecing it together: The Mac has a RasterOps ColorBoard 264 in its PDS slot, and I've connected it to a VGA controller via a DB-15 to VGA adapter. Thankfully the VGA controller...

I spent years trying to get my Daystar Turbo to work alongside an ethernet card. I tried every possible software combination, I recapped everything and even built a new power supply - all to no avail. In a last-ditch attempt, I recently splurged on a DiiMo 50mz 68030 accelerator from Japan...

Hi all, I built a Spotify player for my Macintosh SE/30: The app is called MacPlayer and works thanks to the magic of Spotify Connect. The speaker itself streams and plays the music, and the Mac simply tells the speaker which song to play (as well as volume, current playlist, shuffle mode and...

I nabbed this off eBay as soon as I saw it. It's in impeccable condition, with original service box. I haven't tested it yet though! I'll replace the battery ASAP, and I guess I should do the caps too? Although they look perfect.

Apologies if this has been asked before - but is it possible to chain multiple SCSI drives or other devices to the internal port on a SE/30 logic board? Specifically, I'd like to mount an Asante SCSI Ethernet device inside the Mac instead of outside. Obviously there'd be some changes to the...

 Building a Wifi Extension for 68k Macs I've previously posted a few hardware hacking projects where I retrofitted a Vonets VM300 Wifi card into a SE/30 and a Colour Classic. They work pretty well, but configuration has always been a pain as you need to do it from a Modern Mac or PC using a web...

It's literally brand new in the box! An unused spare part. I can't wait to put this on my (yellow and scratched) SE/30. All I need to do is permanently keep it in a windowless room and it'll be good forever haha!

Since my SE/30 Wi-Fi Mod was somewhat successful, I decided to apply a similar technique to my Colour Classic (I’m not a total Mac hoarder, I only have these two!). Here’s the result:     (my Colour Classic is a Mystic with a 575 logic board, but this technique should also work on a stock...

Hi all, I have an SE/30 and I'm trying to install a Daystar Turbo 040, along with an Ethernet card (DaynaPort E/SI30) by using a Stratos Twinspark adapter. When I install all three of the above cards, the Mac typically boots up but is incredibly unstable - it crashes randomly and doesn't last...

I’ve had an idea for a while to add Wi-Fi to my Classic Mac. I finally got around to putting it together and I think it turned out really well!     I thought I’d post my experiences here for anybody interested.   There was no hope of me building a PDS Wi-Fi card from scratch - but I already had...