Skipp

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I have a Mac SE a broken CRT. The CRT is really really broken, there is a crack in it and when you turn the machine on it makes a high pitched squeal and you can see blue sparcs where the crack in the tube is. AFAIK the rest of the machine works, maybe. I am not particularly fond of fish, does anyone have any ideas of what I can do with this machine besides sending it to the trash heap?

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jt ™.
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Skipp

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I am sorry, but I live all the way in Rochester, NY and I doubt you want to pay the shipping to have a broken SE send accross the country when you can doubtlessly find dozens at your local dump/computer trade show. Anyway, I was hoping someone had a hack suggestions, I have several other working Mac SEs and even a Mac SE/30 and a whole bunch of PC/SCSI stuff that I could hook up. If I bring an otherwise useless SE back to life do I get a merit badge or something?

Skipp

Buy a mac, it is worth the extra RISC.

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If I bring an otherwise useless SE back to life do I get a merit badge or something?

Skipp

Buy a mac, it is worth the extra RISC.

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Of course you get a merit badge for resurrecting a dead SE. Actually, I think you would receive the "Medal for Meritorious Resurrection with Quadra Clusters" (or is that with "Beowulf Clusters"???) BTW, I like your sig.

Here's an "idea": Two-headed (two-monitor) configurations are a dime-a-dozen, but anyone ever try to create a two-bodied configuration with an SE/compact Mac. I'm think there must be some way to route either a digital or analog signal from the CRT-less SE over into another SE and install/make a KVM switch. That way you could control/work-with two SEs from a single keyboard/CRT/mouse front-end. You could hack-down the case of the CRT-less SE to create a monitor-less stumpy little box (like a miniature IIci-style case) that sits under the main SE with the monitor. The result would be an interesting extra-tall SE desktop unit (I'm sure danamania will have the vHack for this one faster than a wombat burrows).

Of course, you could just install a new CRT, but that would be BORING!

Happy hacking,

G4From128k

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I'm think there must be some way to route either a digital or analog signal from the CRT-less SE over into another SE and install/make a KVM switch. That way you could control/work-with two SEs from a single keyboard/CRT/mouse front-end. You could hack-down the case of the CRT-less SE to create a monitor-less stumpy little box (like a miniature IIci-style case) that sits under the main SE with the monitor. The result would be an interesting extra-tall SE desktop unit (I'm sure danamania will have the vHack for this one faster than a wombat burrows).

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jt ™.
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

The MacCharlie config also looks interesting -- a half-wide SE that sits next to the main SE. (And, you could glue the two together to create a rare Lisa SE Dual Processor prototype that you auction on EBay for a bazillion dollars!)

Are we having too much fun yet?

G4From128k

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