Interesting thoughts there fogwalker. The engineering involved in
Another thought here, trag: given that most SE/30 motherboards in our possession will require desoldering of the CPU and addition of a socket anyway, how about this:
PDS passthrough (and perhaps multiple) could be achieved with a separate, straight-through cable and Eurodin connectors. The not-so-rare IIsi PDS/Nubus adapter enables one Nubus card, at least.
This would be optional, as externalising the accelerator and adapter would leave more room inside the Mac for PDS cards.
On the other hand, I can see that step 1 would be daunting for 90%+ of end users, and would limit this as a commercial enterprise.
Is my dream of a Radius Rocket in* an SE/30 coming closer to fruition?
* for some values of "in"
sounds decidedly non-trivial to me, though, and it seems part of trag's goal here is finding the simplest possible solution.
Another thought here, trag: given that most SE/30 motherboards in our possession will require desoldering of the CPU and addition of a socket anyway, how about this:
- User desolders CPU and very meticulously hard-wires from the motherboard to a breakout socket on the back of the SE/30, using a pinout defined by you
- Common cable to expansion box (a pair of SCSI cables for example)
- Your single-board IIcx adapter clone lives in external box, with Powercache/Turbo040
PDS passthrough (and perhaps multiple) could be achieved with a separate, straight-through cable and Eurodin connectors. The not-so-rare IIsi PDS/Nubus adapter enables one Nubus card, at least.
This would be optional, as externalising the accelerator and adapter would leave more room inside the Mac for PDS cards.
On the other hand, I can see that step 1 would be daunting for 90%+ of end users, and would limit this as a commercial enterprise.
Is my dream of a Radius Rocket in* an SE/30 coming closer to fruition?
* for some values of "in"