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datako · Jun 14, 2002, 10:01 AM

I've got a spare dead SE/30, and I've decided it needs a new life.

What I want to do is have some fun at the expense of my PC mates

"Hey, look this 12 year old Mac will blow your puny PC into the weeds"

My intention is to stick the fastest guts into it that will fit. The computer part seems very possible, but my concern is the screen. I need to be able to fit a colour screen in the place of the original B/W.

I'm not trying to hot up the original parts, but to gut it & have completely new(ish) internals.

Any compromise considered - even if it means sticking in a PC board running Linux with a skin.

Anyone done this?

x user · Jun 14, 2002, 12:05 PM

Option 1:

G4 Cube, 9" Color LCD, it was done with a Color classic to it's possible.

<a href="http://www.applefritter.com" target="_blank">www.applefritter.com</a>

I'd bet a G4 iMac might be able to fit in it. I'd go with a G4 Cube, with a DA or QS processor and overclock the bus, and go to 733 or 867

. Alot of work, but It'd be a really cool comp. Radion or Radion 8500.

datako · Jun 15, 2002, 12:29 AM

Thanks! it was the Cube that gave me the idea in the first place. Let the butchery commence....

climber · Jun 15, 2002, 01:57 AM

You are going to cut up a Cube and stick it into a SE30???

You better hide Sevie Boy is gonna find you.

datako · Jun 15, 2002, 10:05 AM

....er, is it ok if I use a cracked Cube?

Actually I don't care what I use, PC or Mac, the whole point is to make an old SE/30 look like a rocket. There's quite a few miniatuture PC boards out there - Linux + Mac skin + OpenOffice.org = Mac running Office.

Any subterfuge or dirty trick will be used to dupe the supporters of the dark side into believing that an old Mac is actually as good as a new PC.

The screen is my main concern. I've got a can of black paint for the case.

Photos will be taken.

Vanquish · Jun 15, 2002, 05:12 PM

PC-board in a Mac SE/30 ???!!! Kill the demon before he rips us all apart and sells our guts to PC-manufacturers!

oh my god i'm writing crap here

way to go, mac-modification rocks !
carry on

-Vanquish

datako · Jun 16, 2002, 06:49 AM

Good news for SE/30 lovers. As I approached my "dead" SE/30 with a extra long torx screwdriver and a case splitter, I remembered the ancient technique of percussive maintenance that was perfected with Quantum drives.

I plugged it in, whacked it on the side, it SCSI-ed, and now I am being reintroduced to wonders of MacWrite, Filemaker II, MacPaint and other groundbreaking applications.

How on earth did we ever get any work done with that tiny screen?

So sorry for now folks, the dismemberment is postponed - doing it to my old Performs 5260 doesn't seem as much challenge.

Hey, anyone got a creative idea for a Newton - the goldfish don't seem to like it. Perhaps a G4..... ?

x user · Jun 17, 2002, 09:58 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by datako:

Good news for SE/30 lovers. As I approached my "dead" SE/30 with a extra long torx screwdriver and a case splitter, I remembered the ancient technique of percussive maintenance that was perfected with Quantum drives.

I plugged it in, whacked it on the side, it SCSI-ed, and now I am being reintroduced to wonders of MacWrite, Filemaker II, MacPaint and other groundbreaking applications.

How on earth did we ever get any work done with that tiny screen?

So sorry for now folks, the dismemberment is postponed - doing it to my old Performs 5260 doesn't seem as much challenge.

Hey, anyone got a creative idea for a Newton - the goldfish don't seem to like it. Perhaps a G4..... ?

<hr /></blockquote>Heh, at least that works with quantums, conners just STOP.

mishakim · Jun 21, 2002, 10:28 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by datako:
....I remembered the ancient technique of percussive maintenance that was perfected with Quantum drives.
<hr /></blockquote>I tried that on a Plus once, all it did was let the smoke out.