Takimoto's finding

[takimoto]

HI all!

I'v been watching SE/30 on Japanese Yahoo! auction and I had bought some.I want to share my latest finding.I found 4 SE/30's listed by same shop.2 of them,the shop said they show ? icon,other 2,the shop said can't power up.but on the pictures they got video board.Japanese bidder prefers known working SE/30,but I went one with video card.I won one about $80 with shipping.When I got it,I found it got Micron Xceed Video Card 24bit version and Twin Spark Adapter in it! Somehow Xceed came without Grayscale Adapter.But I already got SE/30 with Xceed Grayscale so I replaced video card and checked.It works fine.



And looked closely the adapter,It was not Stratus product but Diimo.



(lighter one is Stratus)



I haven't heard of adapter from Diimo looks so like Stratus.Stratus says we can put Diimo card on Twin Spark Adapter.so I think we can say they are compatible.but I must make sure.

 

[ArmorAlley]

Congratulations Takihito (omedetou?)! in case you didn't know, one fellow on this site sold a micron xceed recently for almost $2000. Take good care of it. It is most prized.

 

[olePigeon]

Wow, that's one hell of a conquest.

 

[Macdrone]

Envious.  Ill never have enough money for one but Im drooling over the greyscale goodness just hearing about them.  Would love a Dimmo accelerator also but thats sweet.

 

[ArmorAlley]

Oddly enough, there is a fellow on eBay by the name of ArtMix (he who makes the Stratos) who is selling the double-adaptor for the SE/30 along with a Diimo Turbo040 for the very unfriendly price of USD600. Just type in Daystar Turbo040 in www.ebay.com and it will turn up. Much as I want grayscale on my SE/30, I am not willing to pay more than USD100 for it.

 

[takimoto]

Aligatou (Thank you) ArmorAlley.I don't know Xceed once costed $2000.but I knew items around SE/30 cost more in US than in Japan.

In Japan,price of SE/30 is getting higher,but still cheeper than eBay.and accelerators or video cards are still left cheeper than eBay...I feel hot collectors are fading from Japan... 

 

[takimoto]

Thank you olePigeon and Macdrone.I was extremely lucky.

 

[takimoto]

ArmorAlley,I know Artmix and he is offering his product at very expensive price.I think it is because he is targeting very slim market in Japan.But $600 for Adapter and 040....

 

[ArmorAlley]

Hi Takimoto,

 Sorry for getting your name wrong in my first post. Japan is a Mac-loving country and you are lucky to be there. When I lived there, I made monthly visits to Sofmap (and the tune [1] is still in my head, decades later...) to see what was going secondhand. I was very happy to get a 10-month-old Performa 6400 and monitor for 10-man-yen (100,000 yen or about the fifth the price of it new, if I remember it correctly).

 Nihongo de anatakata ni kaite subeki de arimasu no de, takusan wasuremashita. Mukashi mukashi nihongo de hanasemashita...

mata ne,

aa

[1]

 

[XBHS1997]

Good find, as far as I can tell. I'd already be happy with a working SE/30. |)

 

[takimoto]

ArmorAlley,

there is no problem.it will be bit hard to take Japanese name in.I remember Sofmap song too.for those who dosen't know Sofmap,Sofmap is retailer sells new/secondhand hardware/software.The movie ArmorAlley attached may be sexy game shop of Sofmap.

This song is played in every Sofmap,It's nice-tempo,simple-word and short-loop makes this hard to forget.

 

[takimoto]

XBHS1997,

I haven't mentioned about other part of this SE/30.It was listed as no-powerup,but logic board and power supply unit is OK.very happy about it!.

 

[takimoto]

Hi!

I got another SE/30 from Japanese Yahoo Auction.Seller said there is problem with video circuit.so I got it at good price.I thought I could play some finding broken connection and re-wireing.But there was no need for them.

I uploaded video on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/JSrndx4ufhM

 

[Macdrone]

i would check motherboard and clean off goo and recap.

 

[takimoto]

Thank you for reply.I did wash the board.On the youtube video,that's how I did it.(not that special,but if you like to watch.)

 

[raoulduke]

Is that just soap and water?  [i remember Sofmap from 1999, btw]

 

[takimoto]

It wasn't soap in water,but this oxide film and verdigris remover.

http://www.monotaro.sg/p/89230671/

I used to use vinegar based soap which works good.but this remover works more better.

Oh! you know Sofmap.have you been in Japan? 

 

[zimwhatzim]

Good find, as far as I can tell. I'd already be happy with a working SE/30. |)

I didn't realize SE/30's were a hot item. I have one that, last I knew, still works. I left it with my parents across the country. I'll have to get it recapped. 

 

[takimoto]

zimwhatzim

Absolutely you have to.And more than caps,remove battery AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!.It is ticking bomb in side SE/30 which killed so many SE/30s beyond repair.

https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/17086-warning-exploding-maxell-pram-batteries/