How Many Upgrades are in this SE/30? 

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The fact that the original owner has seen the vids and commented is awesome, I love this mac, what a life it's had!

The flicker is caused by interference. You need to make an RF suppression shield over the card.

I really like the very Fischer Price primary color scheme of the soldering station. Has a fun "my first soldering iron" vibe that works with nature of the projects on this channel

I look forward to watching your videos on Saturday mornings and it's becoming a tradition. It's like being a kid again watching Saturday morning TV!

I've got a Radius Pivot with software that you can have if you want it! I don't have the card. I picked it up for $20 at the MIT flea and would love to see it go to a good home.

The cursed Mac was one of the first videos I saw from your channel, and it so cool to see how far you’ve come! Your silly and amazing hacks have been my comfort food, keeping me sane through some rough years (with side helpings of SOTN speed runs and NES reverse engineering). I now deeply desire an SE/30 with a transparent case on my desk.

turning the old case into a dedicated external monitor for it would be really really cool

I always enjoy watching you try to upgrade old Macs, even when it doesn't work.

13:36 WHOA. The color depth weirdness aside, in contrast to Windows and most Linux desktops, on modern macOS you can't even have a window span across more than one monitor at all! The dimmed outline shows up when you drag the window around, but then remains only the part that's on the screen where the cursor is when you release the mouse button.

make sure your coolant in your car is fulll and if it is have your blend door actuator checked out. also change the temp to all the way cold, then to all the way hot to see if that makes any difference

I worked at an Apple Centre in the midlands UK. I remember radius or a distributor demoing the Radius Pivot monitor along with a Radius Rocket accelerator

That CRT has to do. This MAC demands an LCD to make more interior space available for more upgrades, reduce weight and increase its longevity, let alone have better image quality.

I had the same heater problem in my van. The heater core in your car is probably plugged-up. You should get it to a radiator repair shop and have them flush the cooling system with some caustic agent and have them replace the thermostat at the same time. Just changing the thermostat might be enough but if you have absolutely no heat, it's probably got a bunch of stuff stuck in it.

Gah! You cliffhanger these video endings like nineties Star Trek! 😁

I love everything about that SE, thanks for the video! 🙂

i love this little mac is a perfect concept vintage machine

Another great video Sean! I enjoy the production values and your on-screen charisma of your recent videos, but I still enjoy the endearing waving arm approach from the early “cursed Mac” videos. You’ve given that little Mac a wonderful new life.

Oh - I forgot - this has to be the absolute best use case for a Mac Effects case. Stunning! Museum quality!!!

Ha, weird seing an SE/30 running Wolf 3D :-D Would love a video about your cursed SE/30 booting in System 7.1.1 and comparing the speed of it running Wolf3D vs. newer systems. As a kid I used to play Wolf 3D a lot on an LCII with 10 MB RAM and it was very playable in 320x240 (with not many extensions enabled) - the 68030 16 mhz on 16-bit bus like your Color Classic. Also how much RAM of your 128 MB RAM did you allocate to Wolf3D in Get Info? I personally remember quite a boost going from 4 MB only (with virtual memory turned on) to 10 MB without VM on. And the amount of and types of extensions loaded also mattered a lot for the performance. Did a lot of extensions optimization to get the best gaming performance from that machine.

I think that thing is the reason I subscribed to you channel. Nothing like outrageous mods in old Macs

Great video! I love seeing all these mods and crazy upgrades.

System 7.5.3 can also do native eithernet and connect online depending on the machine your using. I have it online.

YAY. The cursed SE/30 is what lead me to your channel originally! I remember when you first got it. Always love seeing it. Time to find an amber CRT that will fit in it... I think some terminal displays or kaypro CRTs might work

You know something interesting - I have used a Mac only once in my life (and briefly), and yet, here I am watching all your videos about Mac mods...

Awesome fun! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for voting! Keep it up! 👍🏼

You should have used Marathon for your performance comparison.

Ah memories. In college when I was a senior, the school paper sought me out to help them move to Mac desktop publishing from the older Apple ][ based system. I had an Apple ][ in my dorm room and a Mac Plus since I was working for Apple as a campus rep. We bought a Mac SE with the Radius card and monitor....serious money for us but it worked well. The biggest problems were that Pagemaker wasn't good enough to do all the things we wanted to do and Quark Xpress was barely a production application and literally broke every time Apple would update the printer driver. Eventually I bought the first Mac II on campus with a color Trinitron screen and did most of the layout work in my room alongside a girl I liked who would eventually marry me. After college I worked at Apple for a couple of years. The SE/30 was easily one of our favorite machines since it was compact but stupid powerful. We ran the office on an SE/30 server hidden in a phone closet.....AppleShare, print serving, early texting. Everything. I still have an SE/30 and my Mac II, upgraded to a IIfx. Neither has seen power in many years....almost afraid to try.

Sean - Impressive Entertaining Educational You are incredibly talented and adventurous. Thanks for this and all your "shenanigans" Always bring a smile to my face!!!!

I love the content, keep up the great work. I can't wait to see you nexted cursed machine!!

Even your car looks like it's had shenanigans happen to it. You're consistent!

In order to play Wolfenstein fullscreen at 320*240 look for a little system extension called Wolfenzoom.

0:21 Atoto stereo! They are definitely great!

Wolfenstien "poorly optimised for a mac" is an under statement, my old AMD 386 DX40 'Garage sale parts special" on Windows 95 with 8MB of RAM ran it smoothly at 640x480 (as did doom) circa 1997.

I remember back in the day there was a mod you could do to drive the internal crt at 640x480 and/or greyscale - is something like that still possible? I assume it needs a dual output graphics card, and then takes one of those outputs and feeds it back into the internal crt

One more upgrade idea: replace the 9" monitor itself with a color screen! Bonus points for fitting a color *tube* instead of some kind of LCD (Good luck with the neck!) :D

This is just wonderful!! 😁

WoW very cool Sean Did Not Know you could run that dual monitor setup on the SE

@actionretro I got the same radio in one of my cars you have in the intro to your video. Pretty neat unit i'll say!

This is the kind of mod I wish was still possible with today’s Apple. Great video! I’d totally love to see a transparent 27” iMac!

i watched those videos when they first came out, i binge watched all of your content lol

Maybe some day you could replace the 040 with an 060?

Rarely and I envious of others, but 2 working se/30s with external graphics AND the one exorcized and amazing unicorn se/…40 is too much. Awesome content man.

Awesome video. I wonder if he found the video card that lets you run grayscale on the internal SE/30 display.

Can’t wait for the next video!

Sean, one of my first upgrades after purchasing my SE/30 in November of 1991 was to purchase a RasterOps ColorBoard 264 SE/30 for (yikes) $635.00. As the same time I purchased an Apple 13: RGB Monitor (yikes again...$750.00) to attach to it. It worked well that way for a number of years. It made a huge difference in the usability of this computer (PageMaker, Illustrator, all the usual suspects of the early "desktop publishing" days). But my SE/30 wasn't quite the Frank-en-Mac that you have going there. But when I later purchased the Jasmine BacPac 180 (megabytes, not gigabytes...and don't even ask about the price), it did sort of turn into an Igor-a-Tosh with that hump on its back. (The Jasmine BacPacs attached to the back of the Mac and thus the whole unit was luggable, if not actually portable...and port it I often did.) Nice job on adding the second monitor. Boy, that brings back memories.

Gotta love the xj, 4.0 gets toasty but the blend door says not today lol

That cursed Mac was the first video of yours I watched!

You know what would make a great pairing with the clear case? A green phosphor display like what Adrian’s Digital Basement did with one of his Mac Classics!

great video, that's pretty cool shit man!

Now that you have the Pivot card in an un-cursed SE/30, you need the real Pivot monitor.

Fun fact there is actually an upgrade for some compact Macs that lets you have an internal color display. I hope one day you find one to make this as cursed as possible.

You could say it's "Upgrading the Mac SE to its full color potential!"

If the heater in your car is not working, that means engine coolant isn't reaching the heater core, so you will need to have a mechanic look at that system to see what is causing this to happen. Yes, cars use their engine coolant for the cabin heater. You've got heat from the engine travelling through the coolant pipes anyway, may as well tap a bit off into a small radiator to heat the cabin.

My dads workplace had one of those cards in a Mac Se in the day

Nice. I have some Interware Vimage cards for these. Sadly they won't drive the internal monitor, so I'd like to find an Xceed for one of my SE/30s. Some people were doing a reproduction attempt but last I checked it appeared to have some feature creep and was getting a little grandiose. It has been a while though so maybe I should check back.

the insanity never ends and I'm here for it xD

So when do we get a video of you tearing apart the dash of that XJ to do the blend door and/or heater core?

Have you ever come across one of the grayscale cards for the internal monitor on the se 30?

One more "final upgrade" could be installing an LCD screen using an RGB2HDMI tophat for a Raspberry Pi W as done over at Adrian's Digital Basement. It can convert the TTL signal directly from the motherboard and drive an LCD screen.

My guess is you found a rare Micron Xceed video card with the adapter to put greyscale video on the internal CRT and connect an external color monitor. Am I correct in assuming that 040 upgrade is made to plug into the IIci cache slot, also used on the IIvx and IIvx? If that sideways connector is IIci style, then it ought to be able to take a DayStar PPC 601 upgrade.

Would totally love to see a color screen modded in there using the video card.

try overclocking the pivot card, a faster clock might wield faster draw times on screen, so your 040 high res might draw a bit better.

Color LCD screen upgrade time!

0:29 Yay!

I'm glad you grew into your body, from your simple floating-arm beginnings. That is some real character growth. :D

Be cool to see some mods with the 2005 g4 emac.

Yes, upgrade it more MORE

Do you replace the fans in these compacts? Never had one that wasn't loud.

Really interesting. We Mac Plus owners salivated over SE/30 in late 1991. And, ... upgradable! (Also, maybe try wearing handcuffs for your next video. Will help your gestures.)

Can you try running Speed Doubler from Connectix? Version 8.1.2 was very good at optimizing the MacOS up to 8.6. Would like to see the benchmarks for it

Love this❗❤

I wonder if you could find a colour crt that will fit into the se-30 case, then you could have colour inside the mac.

I am 100% BLUNDER ENABLED! Also, you may say the Radius Pivot is the holy grail of CRT monitors, but I say the Sony GDM-FW900 is the Holy F-ing Grail!!! in response. =P

The last upgrade is going to be the gray scale card if not it's not the ultimate mac

I’m really curious to find out what the specs of that graphics card are going to be! (And don’t forget that RF Shield)

Would it be possible to make that SE/30 color?

This is just absolutely wonderful!!

DOOD! I bought that exact Sony monitor new at Fry’s in 1998.

Makes me wish I'd waited a few months, I only managed to snag a bare PCB riser card from Bolle that was left over from his final production run, before the one with the ethernet was released.

Would love to know what you did to get the card working! I have an SE/30 Pivot card ROM 1.2 OR 1.3. Shows grey on main CRT when hooked uop to external monitor but nothing else. Seems to see the card in tattletech but will notpush video to either monitor.

“No matter the personal and financial toll”. My VW bus restoration project in a sentence.

The cursed king has returned!

It is possible to change the BW CRT of the SE/30 to a color CRT or a LCD display?

The first thing to do when the heat isn't blowing hot is to check the coolant level. Do not open the cooling system when hot. Check the coolant level. Add coolant if low. If the coolant is low, figure out where it is going. I think you're driving an XJ Cherokee. Some model years are prone to head gasket failure. Other likely suspects for coolant loss are the coolant hoses, water pump, and radiator.

where did you buy the tandsparent macintosh case from

i love it how can i get these cards ?

It's strange seeing Wolf 3D running on an '040 with issues yet is fine fully cranked on my 12Mhz IIgs... as you say 'optimisation'. (also no issues on a RiscPC with a 30Mhz ARM 600) I really need to dig out my SE/30 some time - back of a (heated) garage for years in bits after the SCSI HDD died.

When does 2d acceleration start? I'm not sure it's a thing with that radius card?

Next I guess you could remove the b/w crt and replace with an lcd or color crt maybe, if the board supported it

I liked your old videos with just the hand.

Huh. Did not realize you were in PA. Neat.

You are doing the lord’s work

I wonder if it would be possible to hack a color CRT into an SE30

How did you get that keyboard to work with the mac

I'm honestly surprised classic MacOS can handle the dual monitor setup with different video modes that well! I would have imagined that setting the external monitor to anything other than 1-bit B&W would crash the OS.

Nice NeXT keyboard! That might mean you have a NeXT sitting around. 🤔

Any link to the bole ethernet/riser card?

I will love to see the “cursedtosh” with an internal coloured crt hehehehe