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Wow well your board looks awesome and I think there is room for many solutions! I am exploring a combo of the ATX4VC and RGB2HDMI to create a mac SE that doesn't have a monitor or analog board, but that is a pretty expensive proposition as far as hardware and a lot of pieces.

Any updates on this project? Interested in the future of big SE upgrades!

I too had one of these CA data displays for my Mac Plus to connect to a projector. The external display itself stopped working at some point and to my knowledge it is lost...or at least I haven't found the box with it yet. I do have the board as it has been installed in my Plus this whole time...

Well good news - ish - I gave the lens a little clean and jiggle and then it took a CD and kept it in. Excited, I tried a few more and found that SOMETIMES it accepts the CDs, I have even installed a game off one, but most of the time it will eject right away. This makes me think the recap...

Well I got some new caps on the board mostly without issue regarding the pads, but am still getting the same problem. I checked that I got the socket chip reseated correctly. Going to reflow the capacitors again just to see. What do you mean by cleaning the eye? I assume a little lens? Right now...

Just to confirm for posterity - wow those caps were bad on the AppleCD 300 drive itself. I haven't replaced them yet, moving slow to try avoiding pad damage, but it seems fixable. Haven't seen/smelled such a leaky mess in a while and I have been cracking open a lot of macs recently.

Thank you for the info - it didn't occur to me that the drive would have SO MANY CAPS. I'll crack it open and see what I can do. I should have some replacements laying around.

Dug out an old CD caddy external scsi drive. Connected it to my LC 550 (no internal cd drive) and powered everything up. Seemed ok at first, loaded up an old mac demo cd in a caddy and inserted it. Caddy pulls in fine but basically immediately ejects. I don't have another caddy drive around to...

I have used 2 of the 2032 flat batteries to replace those 4.5v batteries. Unfortunately I have found that they drain really quickly for some reason. I would love to find a good replacement that would last for years and years like the original ones. I know I have a LC 550 that used the 4.5v...