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Scope creep.

Colin of the This Does Not Compute YouTube channel says what started as a Macintosh SE/30 motherboard repair turned into spending “over a year and about a thousand bucks” building this franken-Mac, instead.

He used some original parts; but it’s otherwise assembled from new old-stock chips, a custom motherboard, and solid polymer caps that will “never leak like electrolytic ones tend to.” The end result? A functional, RGB-laden, translucent SE/30.

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