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Post #3 by MidnightCommando
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateThu, 22 Apr 2010 - 03:30
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/uberse-unoriginal-hack-to-wet-feet-and-whet-appetite.20440/
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... I thought all the nine-inch CRTs had the same physical pinout going on...

Is this CRT surgery documented at all? I have two SE yokes so I won't be scared to butcher one for the cause. After all, what's an army without a little pillaging? ;-)

My original thought was actually to just use the original SE yoke and merely the tube from the Classic II - if the tube itself is pin-compatible I shouldn't have any problems then :D

About restoring to stock, I've neither the time nor munniez nor inclination for that ... Besides as these machines will actually be seeing use instead of being under glass I don't feel too guilty about violating them.

The Classic II was going to be going to be consigned to deconstruction anyway ...

The SE/30 case is something I find really ugly, it honestly looks like some retarded half-breed. The prodigy of the SE (beautiful machine, clean lines, function over form) and the Classic II (ugly machine, too curvy, form over function) ... no thanks. Just my opinion but the SE case is a lot more honest and inviting to me.

I realise the superdrive will work in the SE/30 - just a shame it's not auto-inject... I love auto-injectors.

Other ideas: Overclocking the 68030, 68882, and system bus (or whichever of those is needed) from 16 to 20 or even 25 MHz could be a worthwhile endeavour, if only such a procedure was documented.

Finding an AppleCD 300i to replace the 150i (as said, not the 300i Plus as I need a caddy-loader) would be difficult but if I could do it, a 2x CD-ROM would just about be period appropriate for a pimped SE/30.

Obviously I also will need a LOT of RAM to maximise the potential of the machine, but that's the least of my problems ;)

mp.ls