< . . . alas . . . it appears that I can no longer remain silent . . . :
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I haven't had an SE/30 since the great storage room fiasco and I've never had access to a IIsi so . . . :?:
I just don't know, but I'd sure as $**T check it out before proceeding. :scrambled:
If it's oriented correctly, I'd just desolder the IIsi adapter's RA EuroDin Connector and replace it with a Straight up Wire Wrap Connector so the wire wrap tines on the bottom plug straight into the SE/30's PDS, the IIsi adapter sticks out the left side with the NuBus card pointin' straight up.
I'd hide the sucker in a homebrew MacCharlie case fabbed from clear plexi along with a clear plexi bucket for the SE/30. IIRC, that'd also provide one or two 5.25" FDD slots to stick a slot loading CD/DVD drive someplace w/o bangin' into anything inside the /30's overly cramped bucket. [
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I'd test lining the suckers with metal mesh to create a Faraday Cage to pole-axe any RFI problems right on the head and still keep both the Plexi cases see-thru.
If the slots're reversed, it's just PCB Layout PlayTime and it'd probably make "doing a three-way" a lot less cramped. You've just gotta keep all the traces even in length to each slot and arrange them any which way all the non-NuBus related cards'll fit into the /30's bucket just to make sure the SE/30 purists don't come after you with pitchforks like the townies in Van Helsing!
Whatever! Dunno, I've never been impressed by, nor interested in all the SE/30 upgrade hoopla, To me it's just another Apple example of way too small a PSU coupled with way too few slots. It ought to have periscope handles sticking out the sides, like the ones I was tempted to slap onto my SE/Radius16 right after I got my first Ch3@PA$$ 19" Panasonic B&W TPD & NuBus card! [}] ]'>
I KNOW I'm speaking Compact Mac heresy and a LOT of the comrades'll probably wanna stone me for it, but that's just the way I feel!
The NuBus Sidecar Hack just popped into my head and now I've gotten myself mired in SE/30 lalaland! :disapprove:
. . . >Okay, you got me out of the woodwork!Trash80toHP_Mini wroterientation of Pin 1 of adapter <-> to SE/30 PDS
Just give it to me straight, I can take it - the IIsi and SE/30 PDS slots are 180˚ rotated compared to each other or something - yeah? As in, one has Pin 1 towards the rear of the case, and the other away from the rear?
I haven't had an SE/30 since the great storage room fiasco and I've never had access to a IIsi so . . . :?:
I just don't know, but I'd sure as $**T check it out before proceeding. :scrambled:
If it's oriented correctly, I'd just desolder the IIsi adapter's RA EuroDin Connector and replace it with a Straight up Wire Wrap Connector so the wire wrap tines on the bottom plug straight into the SE/30's PDS, the IIsi adapter sticks out the left side with the NuBus card pointin' straight up.
I'd hide the sucker in a homebrew MacCharlie case fabbed from clear plexi along with a clear plexi bucket for the SE/30. IIRC, that'd also provide one or two 5.25" FDD slots to stick a slot loading CD/DVD drive someplace w/o bangin' into anything inside the /30's overly cramped bucket. [
] ]'>I'd test lining the suckers with metal mesh to create a Faraday Cage to pole-axe any RFI problems right on the head and still keep both the Plexi cases see-thru.
If the slots're reversed, it's just PCB Layout PlayTime and it'd probably make "doing a three-way" a lot less cramped. You've just gotta keep all the traces even in length to each slot and arrange them any which way all the non-NuBus related cards'll fit into the /30's bucket just to make sure the SE/30 purists don't come after you with pitchforks like the townies in Van Helsing!
Whatever! Dunno, I've never been impressed by, nor interested in all the SE/30 upgrade hoopla, To me it's just another Apple example of way too small a PSU coupled with way too few slots. It ought to have periscope handles sticking out the sides, like the ones I was tempted to slap onto my SE/Radius16 right after I got my first Ch3@PA$$ 19" Panasonic B&W TPD & NuBus card! [}
] ]'>I KNOW I'm speaking Compact Mac heresy and a LOT of the comrades'll probably wanna stone me for it, but that's just the way I feel!
The NuBus Sidecar Hack just popped into my head and now I've gotten myself mired in SE/30 lalaland! :disapprove: