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Asante IIsi, SE/30 daughter card video feature
Posted by: Von on 2018-08-06 21:43:59 I saw this in the Ebay Finds thread: We're veering off-topic but I already have an SEIV and two Hammer cards. To get us back on topic, there's a little discussed feature of the following SE/30 Asante card. Notice that the daughter card is actually two connected cards. The 15-pin "Thick" connector can be unscrewed from the standoffs and taken off so that a 15-pin monitor connector can be screwed in beside the 10bT connector. This gives you ethernet and video at the back of your SE/30 or IIsi. I'm sure a lot of you know about this feature, but I bet a lot of people have never noticed or known about this... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Macintosh-Asante-Tech-Ethernet-Card-Mac-SE-30-or-IIsi/123291796464?hash=item1cb4c383f0%3Ag%3An6IAAOSwEMpbZk8A&amp;_sacat=80053&amp;_nkw=asante+se%2F30&amp;_from=R40&amp;rt=nc&amp;LH_TitleDesc=0 View attachment 24265 And yes, that is a very cool feature. My first Asante card did not have this so here is the MacGruber I needed to do to run the Asante with a video card: I made the back plane out of an old PC case sheet metal with some Dremel work. The card is rotated 90 degrees so that I could use the mounting screw for the "Thick" connection to hold it in place. Because it was close to the back of the tube it is protected with a plastic sheet covered in electrical tape. Fast forward to the only real "deal" I have come across on Ebay. That was for a Misc Mac parts grab bag. It was a single auction that included 3 of the Asantes with the special detachable "Thick" daughter card and a MicroMac Carrera 040 with the IIsi card. I think it was only $65 w/ shipping. So here is one of those cards in action:
Posted by: tact on 2018-11-06 12:19:37 XCEED o.o
Posted by: Bunsen on 2018-11-13 18:16:18 The 15-pin "Thick" connector can be unscrewed from the standoffs and taken off so that a 15-pin monitor connector can be screwed in beside the 10bT connector. This gives you ethernet and video at the back of your SE/30 or IIsi. Wow. While I can appreciate the convenience and flexibility, my gut instinct is that replacing one connector with another that looks identical and is completely different electrically is just asking for trouble.
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