Just how much can you mod an SE/30 and still consider it an SE/30? For example (assuming it were even possible) putting a IIci motherboard in there?
Way to take a perfectly silly "first post" thread and make it serious and informative. *grin* I mostly just wanted to see the reaction to the Stalin-esque "yes/yes" poll.
This is a really hard question, indeed, because you're basically dragging the whole philosophy of being into the 68k Mac forums. I've been through this discussion on the CC board and the turbo-dodge car board, and I think I know the (easy) answer: "As much as the owner thinks they can mod it."
There's a distribution curve where a few people claim it's totally changed at the slightest disturbance, and a few people will get *really* wild with it (Taco CC), and there's a big peak of "dropoffs" near the middle.
For example, most people think that a Mystic is still a CC, though many of them wouldn't go as far as the Takky surgery. It's basically a bell-curve.
Now, if that wasn't cutting straight to the trivial answer, I don't know what else could be.
Personally, I like to see the original motherboard, case, analog, and tube. I don't really like the color-SE/30 hacks or the "LCD+MiniITX+Basilisk=fast" hacks. They're cool, but they're more SE/30-themed customs than SE/30 upgrades, to the way I look at things. I don't mind the "swap floppy for internal CD" or "axe floppy to make room for IIsi adaptor" or even "fab up fabulous new PDS cards", and still think of those as upgrades.
How about you? Where do you fall along the distribution function?