I tried doing scans again with adjustments for height, light, etc but no luck.
So I decided to install this stuff and test it out. The inside of my SE was easier to manage than i expected. The Quesse 030 upgrade easily fits on the logic board.
The Lapis DPD though, is impossible. The tolerances of it fitting look like they could barely happen, but trying for almost two hours I was unable to get them to fit. It is clever: On the back of the processor upgrade there is a 64 pin ribbon connector. This is a PDS passthrough. At the expansion slot, the video output jacks get screwed in from outside, fastened to a bracket and PCB on the inside. This PCB connects via the 64 pin ribbon to the 030, and has a regular PDS connector also. The Lapis display card fits to this second PDS and rests atop the floppy drives. The video output from the display card connects to the expansion port card via a 16 pin ribbon connector. Where it all doesn't quite fit for me is the 64 pin ribbon connector, there is simply not enough clearance between the logic board and chassis for it to fit there. I know it is an ugly fix, but if I dremel away a strip of metal it would fit without any problems. So I left the Lapis card out, as I haven't now an appropriate monitor anyway.
No fireworks! The system does appear to be accelerated. I don't see anything like a "System Profiler" so I don't really know what is happening in there. Memory still reads as 4 MB, but I don't know whether those are the SIMMs on the logic board or on the upgrade. I ran a few MIDI apps and those appear more responsive. Lastly I started MCL 2.0, which used to take about a minute to start previously, and instead started within a few seconds. I like it so far.
I will open it again soon once I obtain a FPU chip and show how it fits together. I am entertaining a perverse notion that if I don't find a dual page display, that I should hang the iisi NuBus adaptor out of the expansion slot instead. It would look interesting with my SampleCell strapped to its back!
So I decided to install this stuff and test it out. The inside of my SE was easier to manage than i expected. The Quesse 030 upgrade easily fits on the logic board.
The Lapis DPD though, is impossible. The tolerances of it fitting look like they could barely happen, but trying for almost two hours I was unable to get them to fit. It is clever: On the back of the processor upgrade there is a 64 pin ribbon connector. This is a PDS passthrough. At the expansion slot, the video output jacks get screwed in from outside, fastened to a bracket and PCB on the inside. This PCB connects via the 64 pin ribbon to the 030, and has a regular PDS connector also. The Lapis display card fits to this second PDS and rests atop the floppy drives. The video output from the display card connects to the expansion port card via a 16 pin ribbon connector. Where it all doesn't quite fit for me is the 64 pin ribbon connector, there is simply not enough clearance between the logic board and chassis for it to fit there. I know it is an ugly fix, but if I dremel away a strip of metal it would fit without any problems. So I left the Lapis card out, as I haven't now an appropriate monitor anyway.
No fireworks! The system does appear to be accelerated. I don't see anything like a "System Profiler" so I don't really know what is happening in there. Memory still reads as 4 MB, but I don't know whether those are the SIMMs on the logic board or on the upgrade. I ran a few MIDI apps and those appear more responsive. Lastly I started MCL 2.0, which used to take about a minute to start previously, and instead started within a few seconds. I like it so far.
I will open it again soon once I obtain a FPU chip and show how it fits together. I am entertaining a perverse notion that if I don't find a dual page display, that I should hang the iisi NuBus adaptor out of the expansion slot instead. It would look interesting with my SampleCell strapped to its back!