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I found this old ad from 1992 wedged into one of the manuals for a Daystar accelerator I recently acquired. I wonder just how many forgotten Mac Classics are still sitting on someone's shelves like in this ad......

I actually have a GrandVimage 24-16s in my collection-man does that card have a bunch of video resolution options! Alas, the driver that works for that card does not work for any of the VDR-2x cards, including this one.

Well, I've tried several operating systems with this, including O.S. 7.5.3....and I still cannot get this card to display in any other resolution other than 640x480. I found a mystery resistor on one of it's multiplexers (74f251ap). I de-soldered it to see if that would affect anything with...

@bigmessowires -Unfortunately no, just VGA and DVI on all of the ones that I have. These monitors came brand new circa the early-to-mid aughts with the Dell computers I used to distribute, so I guess Dell didn't see the need to install composite video on them.

I picked up this Daystar 68030 powercache accelerator with a Macintosh II adapter off of eBay. Added bonus was that it came with a whole bunch of documentation....even still has the warranty card! And it came in the original box too. Only thing that it didn't come with was a 68882 math...

On the subject of LCD monitors for vintage macs, I really like the Dell 170x 4:3 montiors, such as the Dell1708FP pictures here. I used to work at a local college that was throwing these away on a regular basis(!) in favor of 16:9 aspect ratio monitors, so I was able to grab a small collection...

@Aeroform -It looks like the difference with the VDR-2J is similar to the difference with the VDR-2L: All of the Oscillator sockets are filled on the VDR-2j, and it has different firmware- version 1.0.3 as opposed to the version 1.00 I usually see on VDR-2a. I would assume that this is so the...

@SophieRose -That looks like it! Now, what to do with it.....

I got this off of Ebay a while back in a lot of Mac parts. Judging by the chips that it has I think that it is a video card, but I'm not sure. Does anyone have any idea what this card might go to? Maybe it doesn't even go to a Mac at all!

@ArmorAlley -I admit that I did neglect to mention that I had to start it up with extensions; for some reason, every time I tried to power it up with the extensions on, it crashed. I'd assume that the extensions give it the functionality to properly display Japanese characters, but I'm not...

Burning the GALS should be pretty strait-forward; myself, I use a TL866II and have always had good luck with it. As long as you've matched up the chip properly in you chip programmer's interface, it should work. Just make sure that you have the right image!

@ObeyDaleks -The shipping was steep, at $150. But in the end, the total purchase price was $325, which is pretty reasonable for what I got! @Juror22 -I very much enjoy getting a machine in this condition! The keyboard is actually from another machine that I purchased from Japan, but it does...

I picked this up off of Buyee/yahoo Japan a few days ago. I put a sniper bid on it, expecting not to win....but by some miracle I did. Like most of us that look for SE/30's, what drew my eye to this machine was the fact that it had a video connector sticking out the back. Of course you...

@ObeyDaleks -I am not necessarily shocked by these prices. First as had been mentioned is the rarity of the parts-both a Micron Xceed greycale with all of the trimmings and a pristine SE/30 are hard to come by, with-of course- the micron Xceed being the part that is very hard to come by. And...

Or you could have bought this one, which looks like it did indeed sell for its asking price...

@Kevinlenane - I have one in my SE/30, and I use to run both a Daystar 68030 50mhz accelerator and a Interware Grand Vimage video card. Hope that helps!

@joshc -If I could get one for a reasonable price, I would love to own one! I actually almost had one a few years ago. It was in an SE/30 that was up for sale on Buyee if I remember correctly; the final bid was about $355! Probably won't see a deal like that ever again......

I've got an Interware Grand Vimage 24-16s. It doesn't do internal greys, but it does do millions of colors on an external monitor. Plus, it's accelerated! And I got it for a fraction of what this is going to go for.

It's now up to $767, with still a day left to go:

Welp, the good news is that it works. The bad news is that it works somewhat ......it has a fair amount of "jitter" when you try to draw with it. In other words, it is just about impossible to draw a straight line with the thing. I've tried it on two different machines-an se/30 running 7.5.5...