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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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Thanks for this throwback down memory lane. I had the SE/30 with RasterOps 264 color board and SyQuest 44MB cartridges. It was a great machine.

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

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.

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

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!!!

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

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

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.

i love this little mac is a perfect concept vintage machine

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

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

Thanks for voting! Keep it up! 👍🏼

Sometimes I like to lay on the floor and pretend I'm a carrot.

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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 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

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

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

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.)

You should have used Marathon for your performance comparison.

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 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.

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

0:21 Atoto stereo! They are definitely great!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

@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!

So. Chrysler put a 40 amp fuse to protect a circuit with components only capable of handling 20 amps on your Jeep. Your blower motor has likely worn out and draws too much current which can ruin both the fan speed switch and the resistor pack that steps down the voltage into the fan. And those components get fried before the fuse even gets warm. I need to redo mine again too. I tried putting mosfets in to get the switch out of the main current path, but I need to rethink that. Some folks put automotive relays in to keep the switch out of the current path. Good luck!

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 cursed king has returned!

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

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

Awesome fun! Thanks for sharing.

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

An incredibly special, impossible to find upgrade card from Germany. I know what you've done, you mad lad.

Color LCD screen upgrade time!

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.

I most likely know the person who owned the Xceed grayscale card you will use in the next video 🙂

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

You are doing the lord’s work

I liked your old videos with just the hand.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Yes, upgrade it more MORE

How is it that you're, like, the king of obtaining unobtainium? Lol. Guess having the KZfaq channel must help a lot.

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

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

Its just mesmerizing how much fast an Amiga is with a 040 board than a Mac with the same cpu

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

Dude! How about a colour CRT monitor in it? All you need is a 9 or 10 inch Colour CRT monitor!!!

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

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

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

Intrusive thought… replace b&w crt with color lcd. Makes a color se30 and more room inside for additional upgrades 😂

If you can get me through my Mac problems I’ll get you through your car problems lol FaceTime? 😂

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

Hey man. I appreciate the content of the video but there is a decent amount of dead air. Consider some royalty free background music that fits the mood to help with some of the empty audio space. It'll go a long way.

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

How does the Mac know that the 2nd monitor is positioned to the right of it?

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.

Since this thing is about as far from stock as you can go, I'm kind of surprised you haven't replaced the CRT with a flat panel color replacement. hehe

Hi, crazy macdude, maybe you should disable the system-7 dock change all backgrounds to a single color. The mac wastes a lot of resources building up the background images on the desktop while you are playing the games in on top of the backgrounds,

As a fellow Pennsylvanian, I can confirm it's cold

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.

I still think you should keep the front panel black with a hint of blue

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

the cursed mac for action retro is like the 5$ win 98 pc for MJD

That Sony monitor is da bomb!