I'm looking to upgrade from my accelerated SE to a Color Classic
I'm currently bidding for an SE/30
As a bonus point for compact macs, I plan to carry it with me (even have a carry bag for it) to game jams (when the pandemic goes away).
In that case, maybe a SE/30 with a graphics card and, yuck, external color monitor might be the way to go! Oh well, hope I'll win the bid, still holding strong on that oneI agree with Cheesestraws on the SE/30. It's the best compact Mac in my opinion. I like it and use it more than my Color Classic. I just put 64MB of RAM in it and it flies.
The other thing to note about the Color Classic is that it's really quite heavy! You won't want to be lugging that around I've also heard stories of this causing more breakages in transit
p.s. I know there's a grayscale mode you can do to the SE/30 but I'm not good with soldering and never worked on a CRT before.
Well, I ended up getting an SE/30 with a Pro Color Server graphics card and a DB15 - VGA adapter. Until I can get my hands on a CRT for it, I'll just use an older, smaller VGA monitor. Think I just scored the whole grail. Compact to carry on the road/to jams and color support for my own stuff at home. As a bonus, freshly recapped.
Well, you helped and convinced me to go down this route, I wouldn't have had considered it otherwise. I was talking with a friend/collector from my country and told him what you said and the guy dropped the mention that he had a color card and an se/30 he was willing to part with. Cost me about 400$ but I think it's worth it, especially knowing that he did the recap and it would be delivered locally instead of long distance shipping. Can't wait to get my hands on it.That does sound like a really good option for what you want to do. Nicely done