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    Performa 5200CD mouse nest

    That is funny! I was trying to be humorous, but yes, it was an actual rodent mouse. Unfortunately, the damage to the cable harnesses was quite extensive. I will try to salvage what I can, but I think the machine is beyond my capability to repair, and unless you are local to Portland Maine it...
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    Performa 5200CD mouse nest

    No mouse but definitely bed and droppings. And residue that’s probably urine. I also discovered through disassembly that my friend had chewed through a bunch of wires both RGB data and high voltage stuff. Way above my pay grade to try to fix. I will probably finish disassembly, clean, and...
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    Performa 5200CD mouse nest

    I just acquired a Performa 5200 CD. Decent shape, expected brittle plastics, but when I pulled out the logic board it was full of shredded tissue and mouse poop. Beyond the fact that I have to clean and disinfect everything, is it even worth it given this machine’s “road apple” reputation to...
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    Any fun/interesting apps or games to show off Mac OS X 10.1?

    Other than showing some of the similarities/identicalness between the NeXTSTEP and Mac OS versions of Chess, Graphing Calculator, etc. the first interesting ones were the Microsoft Office version X suite and Adobe Photoshop 6/7 (you may need to hunt for the revisions that worked on 10.1).
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    I wish you luck! My "first" grail machine was an imposter (SE in an SE/30 case) and battery...

    I wish you luck! My "first" grail machine was an imposter (SE in an SE/30 case) and battery bombed on top of it. I had better luck the next time.
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    LC II recapped but still white screen and boots in a while

    Do you have a BlueSCSI or other SCSI emulator? Try booting from that to eliminate the HD. I've had long boot times from failing SCSI drives.
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    Macintosh SE/30 Upgrades (Early Christmas)

    @jmacz Do you have an stl for those RAM slot supports? I’ve not seen that before…
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    Plastic Bracket Repair Tips

    I have one of those in multiple pieces in a Ziploc bag somewhere. My goal is to glue it back together, 3D scan it, and have a 3d printable replacement to share. It's way down on the to-do list though :-(
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    That's way too many cats...

    That's way too many cats...
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    SE/30 bad SCSI bus?

    Ok. So, it worked with the original HD (which I managed to find). So I got to thinking that I have not recapped the PS or the analog board yet, and I have some other goodies (Zigzagjoe's 30 Video GS card and PDS 030 Accelerator card) installed. So I grabbed my molex to floppy power cable and...
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    SE/30 bad SCSI bus?

    Looks like it should say "Empty Address" if it's not populated. So I am still looking at the SCSI chip... https://archive.org/details/maxa-snooper-desktop-diagnostics-version-2.0-manual/page/40/mode/2up
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    SE/30 bad SCSI bus?

    Of course there is nothing hooked up to the SCSI bus at the moment.
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    SE/30 bad SCSI bus?

    So, I booted a Snooper rescue disk from a FloppyEMU and ran the SCSI test. Here's what I got
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    SE/30 bad SCSI bus?

    It was working with BlueSCSI until it started giving a Sad Mac. If I remove the card from BlueSCSI or remove the BlueSCSI altogether it does boot from ROM Drive, and from Floppy. I will dig up a real-HD sometime tonight, but something bad on the SCSI bus sounds like the culplrit.
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    SE/30 bad SCSI bus?

    Just a quick note, I did recap the board and cleaned cap goo. Did not note any corrosion, but we all know that’s possible.
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