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| Takimoto's finding | |
| Posted by: takimoto on 2015-10-22 10:26:54 HI all! I'v been watching SE/30 on Japanese Yahoo! auction and I had bought some.I want to share my latest finding.I found 4 SE/30's listed by same shop.2 of them,the shop said they show ? icon,other 2,the shop said can't power up.but on the pictures they got video board.Japanese bidder prefers known working SE/30,but I went one with video card.I won one about $80 with shipping.When I got it,I found it got Micron Xceed Video Card 24bit version and Twin Spark Adapter in it! Somehow Xceed came without Grayscale Adapter.But I already got SE/30 with Xceed Grayscale so I replaced video card and checked.It works fine.  And looked closely the adapter,It was not Stratus product but Diimo.  (lighter one is Stratus)  I haven't heard of adapter from Diimo looks so like Stratus.Stratus says we can put Diimo card on Twin Spark Adapter.so I think we can say they are compatible.but I must make sure. | |
| Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2015-10-22 11:04:50 Congratulations Takihito (omedetou?)! in case you didn't know, one fellow on this site sold a micron xceed recently for almost $2000. Take good care of it. It is most prized. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-10-22 13:35:11 Wow, that's one hell of a conquest. | |
| Posted by: Macdrone on 2015-10-22 22:26:32 Envious. Ill never have enough money for one but Im drooling over the greyscale goodness just hearing about them. Would love a Dimmo accelerator also but thats sweet. | |
| Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2015-10-23 00:13:28 Oddly enough, there is a fellow on eBay by the name of ArtMix (he who makes the Stratos) who is selling the double-adaptor for the SE/30 along with a Diimo Turbo040 for the very unfriendly price of USD600. Just type in Daystar Turbo040 in www.ebay.com and it will turn up. Much as I want grayscale on my SE/30, I am not willing to pay more than USD100 for it. | |
| Posted by: takimoto on 2015-10-23 07:36:46 Aligatou (Thank you) ArmorAlley.I don't know Xceed once costed $2000.but I knew items around SE/30 cost more in US than in Japan. In Japan,price of SE/30 is getting higher,but still cheeper than eBay.and accelerators or video cards are still left cheeper than eBay...I feel hot collectors are fading from Japan... | |
| Posted by: takimoto on 2015-10-23 07:39:06 Thank you olePigeon and Macdrone.I was extremely lucky. | |
| Posted by: takimoto on 2015-10-23 07:42:22 ArmorAlley,I know Artmix and he is offering his product at very expensive price.I think it is because he is targeting very slim market in Japan.But $600 for Adapter and 040.... | |
| Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2015-10-23 10:50:05 Hi Takimoto, Sorry for getting your name wrong in my first post. Japan is a Mac-loving country and you are lucky to be there. When I lived there, I made monthly visits to Sofmap (and the tune [1] is still in my head, decades later...) to see what was going secondhand. I was very happy to get a 10-month-old Performa 6400 and monitor for 10-man-yen (100,000 yen or about the fifth the price of it new, if I remember it correctly). Nihongo de anatakata ni kaite subeki de arimasu no de, takusan wasuremashita. Mukashi mukashi nihongo de hanasemashita... mata ne, aa [1] | |
| Posted by: XBHS1997 on 2015-10-23 11:02:56 Good find, as far as I can tell. 😛 I'd already be happy with a working SE/30. |) | |
| Posted by: takimoto on 2015-10-24 07:52:43 ArmorAlley, there is no problem.it will be bit hard to take Japanese name in.I remember Sofmap song too.for those who dosen't know Sofmap,Sofmap is retailer sells new/secondhand hardware/software.The movie ArmorAlley attached may be sexy game shop of Sofmap. This song is played in every Sofmap,It's nice-tempo,simple-word and short-loop makes this hard to forget. | |
| Posted by: takimoto on 2015-10-24 07:57:11 XBHS1997, I haven't mentioned about other part of this SE/30.It was listed as no-powerup,but logic board and power supply unit is OK.very happy about it!. | |
| Posted by: takimoto on 2016-01-27 22:40:14 Hi! I got another SE/30 from Japanese Yahoo Auction.Seller said there is problem with video circuit.so I got it at good price.I thought I could play some finding broken connection and re-wireing.But there was no need for them. I uploaded video on Youtube. https://youtu.be/JSrndx4ufhM  | |
| Posted by: Macdrone on 2016-01-28 17:50:48 i would check motherboard and clean off goo and recap. | |
| Posted by: takimoto on 2016-01-28 23:39:32 Thank you for reply.I did wash the board.On the youtube video,that's how I did it.(not that special,but if you like to watch.) | |
| Posted by: raoulduke on 2016-01-28 23:45:51 Is that just soap and water? [i remember Sofmap from 1999, btw] | |
| Posted by: takimoto on 2016-01-29 00:34:24 It wasn't soap in water,but this oxide film and verdigris remover. http://www.monotaro.sg/p/89230671/ I used to use vinegar based soap which works good.but this remover works more better. Oh! you know Sofmap.have you been in Japan? | |
Posted by: zimwhatzim on 2016-02-15 14:54:49Good find, as far as I can tell. 😛 I'd already be happy with a working SE/30. |)I didn't realize SE/30's were a hot item. I have one that, last I knew, still works. I left it with my parents across the country. I'll have to get it recapped. | |
| Posted by: takimoto on 2016-02-17 00:03:44 zimwhatzim Absolutely you have to.And more than caps,remove battery AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!.It is ticking bomb in side SE/30 which killed so many SE/30s beyond repair. https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/17086-warning-exploding-maxell-pram-batteries/ | |
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