The saga of my Micron Xceed continues! I've had the card and grayscale adapter for years but due to a boring set of circumstances (moving/job search/family/etc) never could try it out.
Anyway, I put a wanted ad on Craigslist and got a bad capacitor SE/30, put in the spare logic board from my old SE/30 (had to throw the case away years ago but kept the good parts) and was up and running. The thing even remembered the date after 5 years in my garage plus a 1989 dated PRAM battery (!).
So I installed the Xceed plus the grayscale adapter and the darn thing works! I can't believe it it's so cool.
Someone asked awhile ago how much these things cost new, and I found some info in a Google search. TidBits reports the color card alone as being $350 street in 1991. http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/tidbits-058.html
and I found a reference to list prices of the color card and the adapter as $399 and $89 from an old Newsbytes News Network article
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1991_August_23/ai_11205815
here.
Anyway, I'm going to play with it for a while and then sell it.
Anyway, I put a wanted ad on Craigslist and got a bad capacitor SE/30, put in the spare logic board from my old SE/30 (had to throw the case away years ago but kept the good parts) and was up and running. The thing even remembered the date after 5 years in my garage plus a 1989 dated PRAM battery (!).
So I installed the Xceed plus the grayscale adapter and the darn thing works! I can't believe it it's so cool.
Someone asked awhile ago how much these things cost new, and I found some info in a Google search. TidBits reports the color card alone as being $350 street in 1991. http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/tidbits-058.html
and I found a reference to list prices of the color card and the adapter as $399 and $89 from an old Newsbytes News Network article
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1991_August_23/ai_11205815
here.
Anyway, I'm going to play with it for a while and then sell it.
