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Macinstosh SE 6400

I was hoping to simply connect the motherboard to the internal motherboard
Just checking- I assume you meant to the internal analog board, to run the CRT?

Look, to save you a whole lot of wasted time, energy and frustration, I'm just going to say here: no. Using the internal monitor is not going to happen.

The real killers are the sync/refresh/scan rates. Classic's internal monitors just run at completely different, much lower rates to anything newer.

Moving on ...

I do want the original case to be intact / desoldering the ports and add wires so they could match up with the SE ports.
OK. This is known as a stealth mod - another useful search term. Stealth meaning from the outside it looks completely original.

In fact ...

If you plan to use wire port extenders anyway, there's no reason you need to have the motherboard in the same place as in Trash's mod. You can think about other, possibly easier places to mount it, and just make your port extenders longer. Vertically up the left or right side, for example.

This is doubly true if the CRT and AB are removed :-)

One suggestion. Desolder ports from a dead motherboard (like the SE). Use normal external Mac cables for each port. Cut the cables to length, solder the ports to the cut end. Then just plug them in :-)

That way your 6400 board goes unmolested - less risk of killing it soldering, and it can always go back into another case.

 
OK, same page! :approve:

If you mount the board vertically, you can use ribbon cables/connectors for your extensions, but you probably won't be able to fit a 9" Grayscale CRT in the case if you do it that way. I'm going to noodle out an empty Beige Plus/6500/MacQuarium hack. I bought the empty "Plus" to put its unborken bucket on my 128k/Plus/Accelerator, so I've got a project for the Plus shell now!

I'll play around with it a bit and see if there's any way to do it w/o giving up the ability to install a VGA CRT or an LCD at a later date. ;)

 
I dug up a link to the Mac SE/ARM to show you an example of a "stealth" mod. He also has a homemade and open sourced graphics engine driving the original CRT & AB, which might be of interest - though it's not attached to anything remotely resembling a normal Mac/VGA analogue video output.

About half-way down this page, he shows his method of creating a stealth set of rear ports.

Here's a hint :)

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