This project's not really so much about knocking the SE/30 off its throne so much as exploring/demonstrating more elegant methods of modifying and getting all the possible permutations of expansion cards to fit and play nicely together in either box. Most of the expansion card configurations documented on the gamba pages fall into what I'd describe as inelegant to down and straight through the kluge category, finally bottoming out at downright -F-U-G-L-Y-!
Demonstrating how to splay a set of PDS Cards straight across the underside of a IIsi MoBo translates directly into mounting a similar stack straight up from the SE/30's PDS.
A IIsi/SE/30 matchup seems to be about right to me. One is the most open example of the Compact Series, being the Bastardized offspring of the IIcx and the SE. The IIsi is the most constrained I/O expansion architecture of the Mac II series, being the bastardized/hobbled offspring of the SE/30 and the IIci.
In the hands of any hacker with a lick of sense, the IIsi would be the clear underdog in a matchup with the SE/30 . . .
. . . but I'm bat$#!^-crazy . . . so it looks like an entirely different proposition . . . challenge . . . from my point of view! }
Demonstrating how to splay a set of PDS Cards straight across the underside of a IIsi MoBo translates directly into mounting a similar stack straight up from the SE/30's PDS.
A IIsi/SE/30 matchup seems to be about right to me. One is the most open example of the Compact Series, being the Bastardized offspring of the IIcx and the SE. The IIsi is the most constrained I/O expansion architecture of the Mac II series, being the bastardized/hobbled offspring of the SE/30 and the IIci.
In the hands of any hacker with a lick of sense, the IIsi would be the clear underdog in a matchup with the SE/30 . . .
. . . but I'm bat$#!^-crazy . . . so it looks like an entirely different proposition . . . challenge . . . from my point of view! }