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Fun surprise from ebay

Posted by: joethezombie on 2016-10-04 09:57:10 So, I saw this little guy on eBay with a BIN of $69.  Two clicks later, it was mine.  It came in today.  Can you guess the surprise?

Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2016-10-04 10:05:07 HOLY MOLY! MICRON EXCEED WITH THE ULTRA RARE GREYSCALE ADAPTER FOR ONLY $69. I AM SO JEALOUS RIGHT NOW  😛 Nice find ! Hope it still works!

Posted by: CC_333 on 2016-10-04 10:23:50 Me too! This is the last thing I need for my SE/30 to make it perfect. c

Posted by: MJ313 on 2016-10-04 10:25:06 No f'ing way. That's ridiculous.

Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2016-10-04 10:42:44 Congratulations!  That's quite a find, and the main reason why it's always an excellent idea to be a detective as far as pictures go. I'm guessing all it took was seeing that external port showing for you to pull the trigger?

Posted by: Bunsen on 2016-10-04 10:47:59 oh my looooord

Posted by: joethezombie on 2016-10-04 10:58:30 Yeah, I saw the port and figured it's either ethernet or video, both of which are quite desirable in an SE/30.  Bonus points:  it's a socketed logic board, too! The time spent during shipping was quite suspenseful-- I kept looking at the auction pictures and examples of XCEED ports to see if I could tell for sure.  The "speckled" texture of the metal had me convinced it was the XCEED, and it is! :beige: There was no way to tell if it had the neckboard, but I'll tell you I was fully prepared to create my own.  I had amassed all the diagrams, patents, and pictures for the neckboard and wiring harness that gamba had engineered.  Even started looking at circuit board creation.  All in vain, I guess! :beige:   :beige:   :beige:

Posted by: ScutBoy on 2016-10-04 10:58:32 Nice!

Posted by: Juror22 on 2016-10-04 11:52:25 Congratulations!  Nice detective work.

Posted by: Carboy7 on 2016-10-04 12:54:50 *claps* I myself was thinking of getting a SE/30... 😛

Posted by: just.in.time on 2016-10-04 13:40:46 I'm so jealous right now, but sweet find.  I'm glad it didn't end up in the garbage. 🙂

Posted by: techknight on 2016-10-04 14:34:54 I vary rarely crawl ebay, but the link you posted shows a picture of the raster, the jailbar pattern was a dead giveaway it had a micron in it. it doesnt match up with any other SE/30 simasimac.  Keep this in mind.

Posted by: unity on 2016-10-04 17:46:11 Damn!!!!  Lucky indeed!

Posted by: joethezombie on 2016-10-04 21:15:14 Yay, the main card works!  It's the XCEED MacroColor 30HR V2.0. I'll get to the grayscale card this weekend.

Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2016-10-05 02:02:42 Congratulations are in order! As one who would love to have one, I am happy that you have found one. I'm happy that one who appreciates such a card didn't have to pay almost $2000 for it. Do take good care of it.

Posted by: Huxley on 2016-10-16 19:07:19 Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.... CONGRATS! That's so damn cool, and for an amazingly low price too - nice work!

Posted by: MJ313 on 2016-10-19 13:18:22 I'll get to the grayscale card this weekend. How'd this work out? As good as the MacTV?

Posted by: joethezombie on 2016-10-19 22:06:36 Oh sorry!  Yes, it turned out great.  Grayscale is, well how else to put it... AWESOME!  It's really a dream to have the MacTV, G3 AIO, Macintosh original, and now SE/30 grayscale next to each other on the bench!  I'll post some photos soon.  Now to tackle the next hurdle... an accelerator.  I guess I have a few options.  A socketed Daystar powercache for the SE/30 (since my board is socketed)  would be the best, because it allows for the possibility of ethernet+grayscale+accelerator, but yeah... good luck finding one of those!  More likely will be the somewhat more readily available IIci powercache coupled with a twinspark from artmix.  Probably need to look into beefing up the PS supply on this guy, too.

Posted by: joethezombie on 2016-10-24 08:04:00 WOOT!

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