Croissant + Re-homing an STe motherboard

[coonsgm]

Last year I bought a lot of 5 Atari ST's from the eBay. From the photo's they were in fantastic condition and at least one of them was an STe. Turns out 3 were STe's and 2 were STF's...it was a nice find here in the US.

As is too often the case, the seller put them all in a box with limited packing material and they arrived in various states of damage.

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One was completely shattered and in fragments, one had major damage but I've been able to repair to about an 80% level and the last 3 could be put back together pretty much completely. All the motherboards were fully functional, so I've had an extra STe motherboard I wasn't sure what to do with.

After seeing what BW put together for his bare Falcon motherboard he repaired, I was inspired.

This last week I picked up the Croissant from the prolific creator of the Sidecartridge. Combining that with some plexiglass, 3D printing, a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, I have put together the below.

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It isn't perfect, but it is useable and I think looks pretty nice.

[exxos]

Looks cool :)

Yeah, pretty much every ST I had in recent years arrived smashed to bits.

[Steve]

That's really nice!

[peters]

How can people ship stuff like that. grrrr