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The CPU is soldered down on all of those, isn't it?

The 9600 CPU will only work in a 9600 or 8600. But - every other removable CPU card from a PCI Mac is interchangeable.  The bus speed of the machines in that series are all either 50MHz or 40MHz, and both bus speed and CPU multiplier are set by the card. If you want confirmation of this, look...

What's the difference between a datapump bus and a TTL serial line?

May I suggest offering it to the Mac Driver Museum as well, if they don't have it?

No, of course not.  You would have to use them like CCFL tubes - ie, mounted at the sides of a thin layer of light-distributing plastic behind the LCD. SMT LEDs can be had in way less that 2mm size too.

What about a LED backlight?  A strip of SMT LEDs in plastic tubing could be about the same size as a CCFL tube, and draw way less current.

If this thing takes original Mac ROMs ... then would the ROMinator work in it?

Now that is good to know!

One of my madder ideas (which I have an almost complete lack of skillz to carry out) was to try and port a modern embedded OS to the old Macs, like eCos, Contiki, FreeRTOS, µcLinux or suchlike.  Bigmessofwires has µcLinux up and running on his 68Katy, a homebrew 68008 computer, which is about as...

How about a VT100/VT102 serial terminal? And, now that I've read your blog entry ... How about a simple bootloader so you can load code directly into RAM from the serial port?  That would make the Mac even more like a honking-big microcontroller.

It sure is! It sure does!  Moving it now.

You could use Applescript to record you opening and setting the control panels for mouse, etc, then drop the script and an alias of the Date & Time CP into Startup Items.

The Coldfire and other late-68k derivatives have been kicked around here plenty in the past.  The general conclusion has been that they're just incompatible enough with mainstream 68ks to be a PITA, and expensive.  I think ZaneKaminski's approach of using an accelerated 68000/68030 softcore in...

A Linux port of the server would be great - even greater if it could be wrapped into macipgw and run on a Raspberry Pi or similar. http://www.macip.net/

No objections here.  I think this for sure deserves its own thread :)

Welcome!  And thanks for telling us about your conquests and repairs.

The two old methods for getting 640x480 on the CC have been around for years (decades?) and most people seem to think they look fine.

Try putting the link you found into the Wayback Machine at archive.org.  Sometimes you can get lucky and they've archived the download.

Boot from external drive and put the internal to sleep - see if the temperatures are any better.

If I might suggest a strategy to contain feature creep: Focus on the "simple" CPU accelerator with DDR as a single board, and give it a fast board level interconnect for later, optional daughterboards with features such as VGA, USB, etc.