Starting on a Mac SE (SE/30 modded) journey.

Just getting into the vintage scene, after using Macs basically my whole life, and the life of that line too. Starting in 1984. Got this machine to start with. Should arrive in a week or so. I had an SE in 1988 I used for my legal work at that time, and this one was not too expensive, and looked up and running enough for me to learn and mod from a starting place. would like to add something akin to the old ScuzzyGraph II SCSI mods that allowed the machine to drive a color display. Learned about that watching a video interview of Rand Miller and how they developed Myst. Would use it for displaying family photos, messing around with old games, etc. And for grins. Just developing my knowledge and ideas now. If anyone has any ideas of directions to pursue, chime in. :)

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May learn from this one and take on a restore/mod project of a proper SE/30 down the road if I find a good candidate some day. :)
 
I saw that one for sale yesterday, you got the hardest to find part with an old SE/30, a working/restored logic board (y). That makes up for the case not matching, imo. Great upgrades too for the floppy and HDD.

Congrats!
 
I saw that one for sale yesterday, you got the hardest to find part with an old SE/30, a working/restored logic board (y). That makes up for the case not matching, imo. Great upgrades too for the floppy and HDD.

Congrats!
Thanks! I thought it would be less frustrating to start with some of the work already done!
 
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