Hello m68k compadres.
Though I clearly remember registering here in 2004 under a different username, I lurked and never posted, and my account did not survive what I assume must have been a server upgrade sometime in the last decade and a half. I re-registered recently, and this is my first post. I realize it is not a good sign to post to such an old thread. I hope this is tolerated.
I am having difficulty with the forum tools. The links in this thread seem to be all dead, though I suspect those threads still exist under different urls. But I can't see to effectively utilize the forums' search tool to find them, or really much of anything. Google has been helping me more than the resident search tool. But I am not complaining! I am grateful there are others like me.
Years ago, in 2004, I was active in restoring an SE/30, and is the result of my efforts:
www.applefritter.com
I swapped the tube with a monochrome IIc monitor. The tube pins are identical, so this was not troublesome in the least. And the IIc monitor reassembled still works fine in B&W. The epilogue is the SE/30 developed Semasi issues, and it, along with all of my classic mac stuff is stored in S. FL, while I am in Virginia. I'll get it all up here eventually, and get the logic board capacitors serviced, but weighing the cost of gas to travel to get it all against the cost of starting from scratch led to the purchase of an SE/30 this morning, one that looks good but is sick without anything appearing on the display. Obviously, I won't know what is wrong with it until I get it and get into it and figure it out, but I am not all that concerned. But I digress, because this new project is already planned, already completed in my mind, thanks to m68kmla, and the gritty details will be my joy.
My interest in SE/30 and other 68k Macs has been rekindled thanks to reading about Bolle's successes, as well as a number of fantastic threads here (the Flex ATX PSU mod is especially interesting to me). Upon finding this thread, something else is rekindled, something that I thought I had killed 15 or so years ago, something I ultimately came to think was impossible. Because I looked, measured, purchased, and tried and tried to no avail. I thought there was no color CRT tube anywhere that could fit in a compact mac. Every one I found was about 2"-3" too deep, and I was never interested in a tube protruding out the back of the case. I toyed with the idea of an LCD panel, and acquired one, but I abandoned the idea due to aesthetics, even independently coming up with the idea of a curved plastic cover for the LCD to emulate a CRT form. Actually, I'd like to claim that idea, unless anyone else thought of it before 2005. I have seen the efforts of others using this idea, but I'm less satisfied with the result than using a monochrome CRT.
But then this thread popped up, first post including the link,
It is beyond the thread, but my hope is that no one will mind. This is my Holy Grail, not the Xceed greyscale card, but a color CRT in a compact mac (any of the 4 original B&W models, but I hope it is a Macintosh SE (no FDHD badge, just SE). I have no hope of getting a color CRT to work with an original SE/30 analog board and logic board, so it will have to be something else, not sure what yet, but whatever it is, it will be driving a color CRT in a compact mac to be sure.
Does anyone know the make and model of the monitor used by Mark at geektechnique.org ? I can't make it out from the image.
Conversely, does anyone know the make and model of any color CRT monitor tube that is shallow enough to be fit into a classic mac case?
FWIW I am resigned to finding and using a case that has already been evacuated, as I have no intention of destroying any viable classic machine. That would be burning not only money but history.
I apologize for the long post. tl;dr, I'm just looking for my Holy Grail, the make and model of any color CRT monitor (hopefully with an interface that is VGA or more modern), with a tube that is shallow enough to be fit into a compact mac.
I thank you, gentlemen.
