wally
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Recent Freecycle liberations:
From a local graphic artist who upgraded to Mac OS X and was donating her old Mac stuff: an Epson Expression 636 color scanner (SCSI interface) and a LaCie electron21 (20 inch usable) nice color monitor (heavy, really heavy at 77lbs/35Kg). Getting the monitor from the back of my truck into the house and onto the tabletop alone was a bit of a struggle, but no damage.
Both of these I connected to my PMG4-400 currently running 10.3.9. The scanner I have working only when I boot Mac OS 9. The monitor has become the main monitor on my primary system.
From the estate of a local Mac enthusiast: two Freecycle SE/30 PDS video cards, both in unknown condition, in metallic static shield bags-
Micron Technology Inc. Xceed SE/306-48, with the single on board socket connector and cable out to the rear external monitor DB15 bulkhead/switch plate.
Micron Technology, Inc. P6D-900053 9246/500505 serial 2564. I believe this is the Color 30 Xceed card. Two onboard socket connectors, with a short cable from one going to a single DB15 external monitor bulkhead, no switch. I did not get the five headed internal cable. I did get one homebrew SE/30 CRT mount adapter board. Perhaps the former owner had not got around to homebrewing the cable, or it has been misplaced. I did get a collection of heavy ferrite sleeves that are suitable for common mode suppression on the cable harness along with the video boards.
Had I not been previously reading 68kmla I would not have appreciated these items and their application amidst a pile of more conventional NuBus boards being offered. Thanks, 68kmla contributors!
Since the 68kmla site was down at the time I did some research and found the patent for the Color30-SE/30 grayscale application. The US patent number is 5,307,083 and it is most easily downloaded from http://www.pat2pdf.org/
The patent appears to have the needed cable pinouts on sheet 3. I haven't done much with my three SE/30's recently, but this could change.
From a local graphic artist who upgraded to Mac OS X and was donating her old Mac stuff: an Epson Expression 636 color scanner (SCSI interface) and a LaCie electron21 (20 inch usable) nice color monitor (heavy, really heavy at 77lbs/35Kg). Getting the monitor from the back of my truck into the house and onto the tabletop alone was a bit of a struggle, but no damage.
Both of these I connected to my PMG4-400 currently running 10.3.9. The scanner I have working only when I boot Mac OS 9. The monitor has become the main monitor on my primary system.
From the estate of a local Mac enthusiast: two Freecycle SE/30 PDS video cards, both in unknown condition, in metallic static shield bags-
Micron Technology Inc. Xceed SE/306-48, with the single on board socket connector and cable out to the rear external monitor DB15 bulkhead/switch plate.
Micron Technology, Inc. P6D-900053 9246/500505 serial 2564. I believe this is the Color 30 Xceed card. Two onboard socket connectors, with a short cable from one going to a single DB15 external monitor bulkhead, no switch. I did not get the five headed internal cable. I did get one homebrew SE/30 CRT mount adapter board. Perhaps the former owner had not got around to homebrewing the cable, or it has been misplaced. I did get a collection of heavy ferrite sleeves that are suitable for common mode suppression on the cable harness along with the video boards.
Had I not been previously reading 68kmla I would not have appreciated these items and their application amidst a pile of more conventional NuBus boards being offered. Thanks, 68kmla contributors!
Since the 68kmla site was down at the time I did some research and found the patent for the Color30-SE/30 grayscale application. The US patent number is 5,307,083 and it is most easily downloaded from http://www.pat2pdf.org/
The patent appears to have the needed cable pinouts on sheet 3. I haven't done much with my three SE/30's recently, but this could change.