Tag: pds

Adds external VGA to an SE/30 or IIsi, with selected SE/30 variants also driving the internal CRT in grayscale.

Juicy Crumb showed the complete $949 SE/30 Greyscale Kit out of stock on 2026-07-27, and the developer page exposed no separate public order path for current external-only cards. The nonstandard 1024 by 768 at 54 Hz mode will not sync on every display. Extra PDS cards can cause instability, and the maker warns that adapting VGA output to a vintage Apple CRT may damage the monitor.

Visualizes Macintosh PDS signals with LEDs and provides a pass-through plus a right-angle test connector.

The Juicy Crumb page showed BlinkenPDS in stock on 2026-07-24. It is a bench development tool and is not intended for permanent in-case use; the maker says it fits poorly inside a computer. The second connector does not establish that arbitrary pairs of PDS cards are electrically compatible.

Runs a 68030 CPU and optional 68882 FPU at 47 MHz in SE/30 and socketed modular Macintosh configurations.

Juicy Crumb showed a $309 to $359 Add to cart path for Booster 2.0 on 2026-07-27. Choose the exact PDS or PGA-socket variant for the host. Booster 1.x is superseded but its original-card schematic and GAL archive remain available. PDS-card compatibility differs between generations, and System 7.5 or later can produce sound glitches on 1.x cards.

Adds bootable CompactFlash storage through the PDS, bypassing the original SCSI implementation.

The maker states that production is on hold with no ETA. The public support repository contains firmware and installation files, but no DIY hardware fabrication package.

Replaces the Macintosh SE/30 CRT and analog board with an 8.4-inch color LCD driven by a 30Video HC PDS card.

The Juicy Crumb page showed the kit out of stock on 2026-07-24. Installation replaces the CRT and analog board and requires transferring the fan wires by desoldering or cutting. Compact Macintosh CRT and analog-board assemblies contain dangerous high voltages; use a qualified technician if you are not trained to discharge and service them safely.

Open hardware 10/100 Ethernet card designed around a modern controller for the Macintosh SE/30 PDS.

Moves an SE/30 ROM onto a PDS card, bypassing the aging ROM SIMM socket and adding a bootable 2 MB ROM disk.

The store listed the PDS ROM Card at $39 with selectable flashed-ROM and chipless configurations on 2026-07-27. The vendor does not support chipless purchases because programming and ROM preparation can be difficult. A long-term installation should replace the included test clip with a soldered jumper.

Macintosh SE/30 PDS adapter for combining a supported CPU accelerator with a supported video or Ethernet card.

The Artmix product page exposed a current Add to cart control on 2026-07-24.

PDS memory accelerator that replaces Macintosh SE/30 SIMMs with 256 MB of SDRAM and provides an unbuffered PDS pass-through.

The Tindie page reported four assembled cards in stock at $297 on 2026-07-27. Its United States shipping section simultaneously showed a free rate and said the item did not ship there, so confirm destination availability at checkout. The current Rev B manual covers firmware v0.8.0. It warns against using the older v0.5.4 extension with address translation, documents a ROM-shadowing bypass for timing-sensitive accelerator functions, and says Apple Personal Diagnostics memory tests can hang or corrupt memory near completion. A cache-slot accelerator must never be inserted directly into the SE/30 PDS or the Synchr pass-through; use the correct SE/30 adapter. Three-card stacks discussed by the community remained untested.