Anonymous Freak Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Arranged to get it tomorrow. The SE/30 has some kind of video card, pictures show it running the Radius Pivot monitor in portrait mode. Plus what looks to be a few paper ream boxes worth of software, much of it boxed. (Excel 2.0, Word 4.0, two boxes of Aldus Pagemaker, Dayna DOS Mounter.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Juror22 Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 So very nice! Picking up another SE/30 is always fun, but picking one up with a video card and a boxes of vintage software is pretty sweet! Congratulations on the find! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
68kMLA Supporter TimHD Posted August 23, 2016 68kMLA Supporter Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Send pics once you get inside to see the hardware. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anonymous Freak Posted August 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 What an oddball conquest!The SE/30 is in pristine condition. The Pivot Display is in good but not perfect condition. A couple of bonus accessories that are funny, too. As shown here, the SE/30 is still in its 100% original condition! Stock 2 MB RAM, still on System 6.0.5! Works great with both internal and external displays, though. Radius Pivot Display on its custom video card. Supports live-rotation (senses when you rotate and rotates the desktop, then rearranges desktop icons to fit.) For the life of me, I can't get the silly forums to let me attach any more pictures to the post properly, so I'm making an album and I'll link it here when they're uploaded. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
techknight Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Your making a whole lot of good posts all of a sudden. Did the bug bite ya again? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anonymous Freak Posted August 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Combination of remembering this site exists and having spare time to dig through my closet. I've been getting the occasional classic Mac every so often, just wasn't documenting it here, because I forgot about here. (My bookmark was to the old domain, I remember clicking it a couple times and thinking this site had gone away. Was reminded of it on Reddit, with the right domain.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anonymous Freak Posted August 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 And confirmed the video card will ONLY drive the matching monitor. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anonymous Freak Posted August 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Here are some pics of the internals. It was a little dusty, but in good shape otherwise. The video card in place. Video card removed. SE/30 logic board. It had the stock eight 256KB SIMMs installed. Promptly swapped in eight 1MBers. It's running System 6, so no real reason to put more in. Inside of SE/30 back case - incredible condition! EMI shield is in perfect shape. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anonymous Freak Posted August 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 The really oddball peripheral that came with it is a DaynaFile, external SCSI dual-5.25" drive! (One 360K, one 1.2M.) Sadly, the power cord/brick is missing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
68kMLA Supporter sstaylor Posted August 24, 2016 68kMLA Supporter Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 I've also got a DaynaFile, also with a missing power supply. If you ever come across any information about it, let us (me!) know. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anonymous Freak Posted August 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 Couldn't get the gallery to work here properly, so I've fully documented it on imgur: Mac SE/30 + Radius Pivot Display Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Byrd Posted August 24, 2016 Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 (edited) Nice setup - I've only ever come across one Pivot Monitor (connected to a Centris 650), but it was smashed in ... sad. Does it only output in B&W, and is it fairly slow to rearrange icons etc when you rotate the screen? JB Edited August 24, 2016 by Byrd Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anonymous Freak Posted August 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 This one is grayscale - 4 shades with the SE/30 video card. I know they made a color version, too. (There's even a color SE/30 video card for it!)It takes as long to rearrange as choosing "Clean Up" would if you had all the icons scattered.Here's a quick video: https://vid.me/4oo9The interesting thing is when you have more than one full column's worth of icons, it "rearranges" them, keeping them in the same columns - which makes some icons disappear off screen! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
just.in.time Posted August 24, 2016 Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 This is such a cool setup! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
olePigeon Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Man, those Radius Pivots are too cool for school. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
68kMLA Supporter joethezombie Posted August 26, 2016 68kMLA Supporter Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 I have one of those micron xceed cards (without the grayscale internal connector) that I would love to connect a portrait color display, but I don't know enough about the card yet to know what monitors are compatible. One of these days I hope to have a similar setup! But of course it would be missing the coolest feature, the rotating auto sensing display. Such awesomeness! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
massiverobot Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Tell me you replaced that pram battery. It's not a maxcell but still..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anonymous Freak Posted August 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2016 Well, I took it out. I need to get more of them, I've run out of new ones. Found a cheap online source ($1.80 each!) but shipping is only free on orders of $50 or more, and on smaller orders, the shipping is a bit silly for batteries.Yes, I'm seriously considering ordering 30 batteries. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BadGoldEagle Posted August 27, 2016 Report Share Posted August 27, 2016 And confirmed the video card will ONLY drive the matching monitor. Megabyte got his working on a Macintosh Color Display (14 inch CRT). It won't pivot but it will work great in landscape mode It will work with other displays as well but it's very picky. I can't get mine to work. Maybe a ROM problem. See you have a ROM version 1 too, that's probably why mine won't work. I think it is only compatible with system 6 and needs a ROM upgrade to be compatible with 7 and 7.5. But don't quote me on that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sabbacc108 Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 (edited) I recently picked up a Macintosh Plus, which came with a portable SCSI hard drive that uses a DIN-5 socket for power (like your DynaFile) that connects to the 19-pin D-sub connector on the back of the Mac. Maybe the DynaFile used a similar cable? Edited September 13, 2016 by sabbacc108 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anonymous Freak Posted September 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 I got in touch with someone who has a web page about the DaynaFile - he finally got back from vacation and sent me the specs - it needs both 5V and 12V, but apparently it uses a power brick that was relatively common with electronics of the late '80s, so I should be able to find one reasonably priced. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sabbacc108 Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Okay! I just spied what appeared to be a DIN to D-sub cable in the picture you took of all the random bits you got with the SE/30, and thought that might be what it was for (since the floppy port on compact Macs outputs both 5V and 12V). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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