Starting my Compact Mac Vintage Journey with this SE modded to SE/30 project.

sunvalleylaw

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Jan 7, 2026
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Just getting into the vintage scene, after using Macs basically my whole life, and the life of that line too. Starting in 1984. I did an intro thread in the appropriate place also! :) Got this machine to start with. It has been recapped and upgraded as listed below. The SE?30 board was purchased already recapped from eBay by the Seller, and Seller also recapped the analog board. It should arrive in a week or so.

I had an SE in 1988 I used for my legal work at that time, and this one was not too expensive, and looked up and running enough for me to learn and mod from a starting place. would like to add something akin to the old ScuzzyGraph II SCSI mods that allowed the machine to drive a color display. Learned about that watching a video interview of Rand Miller and how they developed Myst. Would use it for displaying family photos, messing around with old games, etc. And for grins. Just developing my knowledge and ideas now. If anyone has any ideas of directions to pursue, chime in. :). I think I would like to avoid putting in a flat screen LCD or such and would rather have a good working machine, with the capability to run a color external drive, rather than a lot of the mods I have seen on Youtube and the forums. We'll see.

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