Would love anyone's help and/or thoughts in planning out my Mac SE/30 Reloaded build.
I purchased from a guy who didn’t’t need it his purple Reloaded board with these additional parts:
(6) PLCC 20 sockets, (4) PLCC 68 sockets and (1) CPU socket, I have a NOS MC68030RC33B, 33MHz CPU, and I have a battery bombed Iivx I can harvest some stuff from. Maybe even use its CPU instead. I might probably do the Quadra conversion on the Iivx some day. But may as well use some of the Custom ICs & ASICs/proprietary, and through-hole components that I already have with this machine I found at the Boise Reuseum e-recycler.
Here are is the board and sockets and the NOS CPU.
I will need to decide if I want to try to do this myself, down the road after I do some practice building on easier stuff and improve my soldering skillz, or if I want to send it to someone to build for me. I may also find some help through my local vintage computer club, tvvcc.org the Treassure Valley Vintage Computing Club. I have started to study some threads here, and will study more closely, another person 's thread over on another forum I found, on his journey. I don't plan on being in a hurry, and the process and learning is a large part of what I hope to gain from this. I have a working SE modded to SE/30 already anyway.
I think I will use a new power supply. And maybe as much new parts/stuff as I can. I think, but have to look and be sure, that I have the analog board to recap also, but may look for a reloaded one. If I don't have an analog board, I will get one. I will want to find a good accelerator, and plan to find and use one day a ZigZagJoe color display kit, with the ability to drive a separate color monitor, if he makes more, or I can find one used, or something similar. As far as ethernet/internet, thinking I might end up using a Zulu SCSI Pico 2 slim as I am not sure I really will care that much about doing that much internet stuff on this machine.
I plan on using a SE/30 faceplate I have, and hope someday to find a clear SE enclosure for the back, if I can find one of those at some point. And I plan to max all the rest out over time too.
Shoot me your ideas or thoughts if you have any! This is definitely only in planning stages, and will be a work in progress.
I purchased from a guy who didn’t’t need it his purple Reloaded board with these additional parts:
(6) PLCC 20 sockets, (4) PLCC 68 sockets and (1) CPU socket, I have a NOS MC68030RC33B, 33MHz CPU, and I have a battery bombed Iivx I can harvest some stuff from. Maybe even use its CPU instead. I might probably do the Quadra conversion on the Iivx some day. But may as well use some of the Custom ICs & ASICs/proprietary, and through-hole components that I already have with this machine I found at the Boise Reuseum e-recycler.
Here are is the board and sockets and the NOS CPU.
I will need to decide if I want to try to do this myself, down the road after I do some practice building on easier stuff and improve my soldering skillz, or if I want to send it to someone to build for me. I may also find some help through my local vintage computer club, tvvcc.org the Treassure Valley Vintage Computing Club. I have started to study some threads here, and will study more closely, another person 's thread over on another forum I found, on his journey. I don't plan on being in a hurry, and the process and learning is a large part of what I hope to gain from this. I have a working SE modded to SE/30 already anyway.
I think I will use a new power supply. And maybe as much new parts/stuff as I can. I think, but have to look and be sure, that I have the analog board to recap also, but may look for a reloaded one. If I don't have an analog board, I will get one. I will want to find a good accelerator, and plan to find and use one day a ZigZagJoe color display kit, with the ability to drive a separate color monitor, if he makes more, or I can find one used, or something similar. As far as ethernet/internet, thinking I might end up using a Zulu SCSI Pico 2 slim as I am not sure I really will care that much about doing that much internet stuff on this machine.
I plan on using a SE/30 faceplate I have, and hope someday to find a clear SE enclosure for the back, if I can find one of those at some point. And I plan to max all the rest out over time too.
Shoot me your ideas or thoughts if you have any! This is definitely only in planning stages, and will be a work in progress.
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