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  1. JDW

    SE/30 Pics from 2006 (yes, that rhymes)

    Now that Flickr has gone back to giving us faithful users another punch in the nose with their 1024px photo resolution limitation, I thought it best to present some hi-rez versions of my original SE/30 pics here, from back in 2006. That was the era before SCSI2SD and BlueSCSI — when everyone...
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    Power PC performance evolution

    Absolutely! If you want to run OS X, more specifically Tiger, on a PPC Mac, you really do need something 1GHz or faster to make it "fun usable." The G4 Cube had a stock CPU speed of 450MHz, which was adequate for OS 9, but not for OS X. I later added 1.2GHz and faster CPU cards in my Cubes...
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    Anyone tried installing LC575 speaker in Color Classic?

    I have that Noctua fan in my machine and never found it to cause any issues with the Standard VGA mod. I later switched to the 84V mod, and while I do notice very faint and hard to see screen instability, that happens even with the read case removed, which means no fan is connected at all...
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    Color LCD Retrofit Kit for SE/30 by ZigZagJoe

    Okay, friends. You can now install a BRIGHTNESS KNOB onto your LCD Color Kit....
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    CayMac LC Style Mean Well PSU Replacement

    Thanks for sharing! I have a BabyFace PSU for the SE and SE/30 which uses those Meanwell power modules, and what I found was the modules' 5-volt rail quite nearly at 5.0v at the output of the module, but once it reached the motherboard, due to resistivity losses in the wiring, the voltage was...
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    Color LCD Retrofit Kit for SE/30 by ZigZagJoe

    The video I'm making won't eliminate the bother of buying the parts, but the installation has now become much more straightforward. Reading the documentation had me worried, but in the end, I figured out the most streamlined way of doing it. With that said, it would be great if the parts could...
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    Anyone tried installing LC575 speaker in Color Classic?

    Fascinating. So basically he removed a speaker from his 575 and put that into the front UNDERSIDE of the Color Classic like this... If you have only the single stock speaker, that is a really neat idea. Of course, I have Stereo Mod which uses another one of the stock speakers to make the...
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    Color LCD Retrofit Kit for SE/30 by ZigZagJoe

    @Dave928 I see what's missing... But I do know you have a clear knob printed. Fear not. My Brightness Knob video is nearly finished. Been working on the thumbnail today... No, my clear knob not backlit. I used a flashlight to shine down on the knob from the inside to take that shot...
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    Heat gun recs?

    I call them "hot air stations." Despite having decades of soldering iron experience, I never owned one until a couple years ago. Now I use it a fair amount, but you must be very, VERY careful around plastics, and don't expect Kaptan tape to come to the rescue every time. Multiple layers of...
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    Partial Dead Quantum Prodrive LPS

    I have a bad Quantum drive that I tried the freezing trick on a year ago, but it didn't work. And while I have used "baking" of video cards (in late 2009 iMacs) with tremendous success (I have multiple YouTube videos about it, actually), I have never attempted it on any hard drive.
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    Can se/30 flyback be replaced by a 157-026C flyback?

    Please review the photos in my previous post and closely examine where the metal rod enters the epoxied area of the main body at top. How deep does the rod go into that epoxy? Not sure if I will ever get a spare rod from somebody out there to repair mine like you do, but I just want to prep for...
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    Ram 30-pin SIMM socket where to buy?

    Sadly, I have no 3D printer, and when I last tried to print those RAM CLIPS at JLC, they refused saying their tiny size was too small for them to print! But the concept is great. Ultimately, what I did was pay Kay Koba in the past (prior to my buying a Hakko FR-301 Desoldering Gun) to swap out...
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    Ram 30-pin SIMM socket where to buy?

    I will tag @YMK and @Willj so they can comment about availability of their respective Synchr030/S and SIPP RAM products.
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    Can se/30 flyback be replaced by a 157-026C flyback?

    Ah... The two nuts on bottom... Well, I've done that sort of removal before, mainly because the brass rod had broken, making it easy to remove after removing the nuts, which you can see below... Another few photos showing the broken brass rod... But I never torn that flyback apart...
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    Can se/30 flyback be replaced by a 157-026C flyback?

    Wow. How, specifically, did you "dismantle" the flyback, and did you shoot photos of that?
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    Ram 30-pin SIMM socket where to buy?

    Why is it at times like this I always think of @MacEffects coming to the rescue with a fabulous recreation! :) Well, until that day comes, we have to choose other options. I cannot say of the "alternatives" you link work. Where do they even source them? That's the big question. Even $10...
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    400 K Floppy Drive Repair Components

    The reason I had two different Carts before is because one version of the Small PCB had space for physically larger capacitors, which also have better specs. So I took advantage of that by creating a special Cart for that version which had wider and better caps. But those caps are out of stock...
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    400 K Floppy Drive Repair Components

    Capacitors for the LARGE PCB are the same across all 400K drive types. Only the SMALL PCB have differences. Your photo of the SMALL PCB matches my photo here... That is a good thing because I am worried about the other version SMALL PCB where you must put one of the capacitors on the left...
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    The great LCD in a Color Classic thread. Well, I wish...

    @Piszigri I spotted your post in that other forum today... It will be interesting to see how your excellent kit develops once it becomes impossible for anyone to source that particular LCD anymore. For now, I've been looking for more photos of how the GVision display looks in its native...
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    3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation

    I have printed DeskSaver feet in PA12-HP MJF at JLC (shown in gray below), and compared to SLS Nylon (shown in black below), the PA12-HP MJF is smoother to the touch. Reasonably flexible too, so it will be interesting to see what happens when I print the walled HDD bracket in that. But I...