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Bought an SE/30 unseen and it had goodies inside! Xceed color 30?
Posted by: WhiskeyJackass on 2023-04-28 03:34:58
I’m pretty sure this is a color Xceed 30 right?
Purchased for the reasonable sum of $90 with the computer.

The se/30 needs a recap and I need to figure out if this card works! Enjoy your weekend.
Posted by: Crutch on 2023-04-28 04:47:43
It sure looks lIke one, and it has the grayscale connector there. That’s the deal of the century! You’ll need the a neck board of course if you want to use internal grayscale, but those are easily cloned.
Posted by: WhiskeyJackass on 2023-04-28 05:01:19
Is it possible to run both grayscale and an external color monitor as the same time?
Posted by: Bolle on 2023-04-28 05:11:01
Is it possible to run both grayscale and an external color monitor as the same time?
No. As soon as you connect an external monitor the internal screen will revert to the original black/white signal that's passed through from the logicboard.
Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2023-04-28 05:18:19
Purchased for the reasonable sum of $90 with the computer.
Well done!
That card is worth about $1600 if you can get the neckboard that goes with it. There was a board made for it some years' ago. Was it from @Bolle?
Posted by: WhiskeyJackass on 2023-04-28 05:20:03
I saw some board designs on GitHub, are there harness schematics as well for the grayscale neckboard designs? I haven't poked around about this at all as this was as much as a surprise to me as anyone else.
Posted by: Crutch on 2023-04-28 05:52:02
I think someone replicated the neck board PCB. You can probably get your own made by a fabricator. It just uses off the shelf components.
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-04-28 06:20:07
I'm not sure that they mentioned they don't have the neckboard?

@WhiskeyJackass - do you have a photo of the back of the CRT?
Posted by: WhiskeyJackass on 2023-04-28 06:54:51
I'm not sure that they mentioned they don't have the neckboard?

@WhiskeyJackass - do you have a photo of the back of the CRT?
No grayscale neckboard for the card, it's a "plain" Micron Xceed 30 color with a DB15 bracket for an external display.
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