Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!prometheus!media!ka3ovk!barn!hoptoad!fidogate!f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Douglas.Currens From: Douglas.Currens@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Douglas Currens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: MAC-CLONE? Message-ID: <14858.284D8289@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 3 Jun 91 06:16:52 GMT Sender: ufgate@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:161/444 - BMUG, Berkeley CA Lines: 15 I'm not sure if you've been answered yet, but there's a good book out now; Build Your Own Macintosh and Save a Bundle- diagrams, prices, sources. The only tricky part is that video interface, and that's usually one chip and a resistor change in the monitor (ah, you ask, but which one and to what?) as outlined in Computer Shopper's Hackenstein articles last year. OK, your questions. 1) Not "any" SCSI, but any made for use on any Mac, and make sure to get some initializing software with it just in case theirs poops out at some later point (SilverLining gets good PR for this). 2)No, the R OMs won't support the FDHD. 3)Yes, any color card meant for an SE will work with a hacked SE, too, but my aren't they pricey! -- Douglas Currens - via FidoNet node 1:125/777 UUCP: ...!uunet!hoptoad!fidogate!161!444!Douglas.Currens INTERNET: Douglas.Currens@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG