So, I saw this little guy on eBay with a BIN of $69. Two clicks later, it was mine. It came in today. Can you guess the surprise?
Fun surprise from ebay
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HOLY MOLY! MICRON EXCEED WITH THE ULTRA RARE GREYSCALE ADAPTER FOR ONLY $69.
I AM SO JEALOUS RIGHT NOW
Nice find ! Hope it still works!
I AM SO JEALOUS RIGHT NOW
Nice find ! Hope it still works!
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Congratulations! That's quite a find, and the main reason why it's always an excellent idea to be a detective as far as pictures go.
I'm guessing all it took was seeing that external port showing for you to pull the trigger?
I'm guessing all it took was seeing that external port showing for you to pull the trigger?
Yeah, I saw the port and figured it's either ethernet or video, both of which are quite desirable in an SE/30. Bonus points: it's a socketed logic board, too!
The time spent during shipping was quite suspenseful-- I kept looking at the auction pictures and examples of XCEED ports to see if I could tell for sure. The "speckled" texture of the metal had me convinced it was the XCEED, and it is! :beige:
There was no way to tell if it had the neckboard, but I'll tell you I was fully prepared to create my own. I had amassed all the diagrams, patents, and pictures for the neckboard and wiring harness that gamba had engineered. Even started looking at circuit board creation. All in vain, I guess!
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The time spent during shipping was quite suspenseful-- I kept looking at the auction pictures and examples of XCEED ports to see if I could tell for sure. The "speckled" texture of the metal had me convinced it was the XCEED, and it is! :beige:
There was no way to tell if it had the neckboard, but I'll tell you I was fully prepared to create my own. I had amassed all the diagrams, patents, and pictures for the neckboard and wiring harness that gamba had engineered. Even started looking at circuit board creation. All in vain, I guess!
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I'm so jealous right now, but sweet find. I'm glad it didn't end up in the garbage. 
I vary rarely crawl ebay, but the link you posted shows a picture of the raster, the jailbar pattern was a dead giveaway it had a micron in it. it doesnt match up with any other SE/30 simasimac.
Keep this in mind.
Keep this in mind.
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Yay, the main card works! It's the XCEED MacroColor 30HR V2.0.
I'll get to the grayscale card this weekend.
I'll get to the grayscale card this weekend.
Congratulations are in order!
As one who would love to have one, I am happy that you have found one.
I'm happy that one who appreciates such a card didn't have to pay almost $2000 for it.
Do take good care of it.
As one who would love to have one, I am happy that you have found one.
I'm happy that one who appreciates such a card didn't have to pay almost $2000 for it.
Do take good care of it.
Oh sorry! Yes, it turned out great. Grayscale is, well how else to put it... AWESOME! It's really a dream to have the MacTV, G3 AIO, Macintosh original, and now SE/30 grayscale next to each other on the bench! I'll post some photos soon. Now to tackle the next hurdle... an accelerator. I guess I have a few options. A socketed Daystar powercache for the SE/30 (since my board is socketed) would be the best, because it allows for the possibility of ethernet+grayscale+accelerator, but yeah... good luck finding one of those! More likely will be the somewhat more readily available IIci powercache coupled with a twinspark from artmix. Probably need to look into beefing up the PS supply on this guy, too.
WOOT!
