Has anyone ever seen a cleaner SE?

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Here is my prized possession... a Macintosh SE SuperDrive with TWO 1.44mb Super's builtin. Can you believe this machine has never been retr0brited? I replaced the beige case parts with new old stock case parts that were not beige, and I keep it under a cover pretty much all the time.

For storage, I use a refurbished 40SC with a 1GB IBM drive.

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That is a strange image format. Could you possibly upload in a format the forum understands so that users don't have to manually download the images?

 

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I have an iPhone XR, and this is the image format it used as the default...

In any case, here they are in JPG...

 

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That machine certainly is pristine. It looks fantastic. What parts did you replace?

 

[maceffects]

I have an SE FDHD owned by Apple that is just as clean and non-yellowed, but it is extremely uncommon.  In this case, I would ironically say don't replace the case with my clear case.  Yours is worth more left like this in its original shape.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

WOW! Is that SuperDrive designation original equipment or did you screen print it? The print looks black in your pics, not standard SE gray.

 

[Brett B.]

Looks original enough to me, all of my SEs have text printed in a very dark gray.

Not quite sure why but mine never yellowed much.  One of them has been sitting in my office for about 10 years under fluorescent lights and it looks the same as it always has.  My SE/30, though... is blotchy yellowed and looks terrible. I should retrobrite that one. 

 

[Dog Cow]

 I have a Mac Classic and an SE/30 that are just like this. Pristine. Everyone knows to keep them out of the sun, but the other secret is to keep them away from any heat source as well, because that will turn the plastic yellow over the years, even if it's sitting in the dark.

 

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WOW! Is that SuperDrive designation original equipment or did you screen print it? The print looks black in your pics, not standard SE gray.

For some reason, the iPhone camera is showing up the blacks as more bold... that print is standard, not modded.

That machine certainly is pristine. It looks fantastic. What parts did you replace?

I ended up replacing the complete back with a brand new one (old stock). The SE-BUS port also got replaced, along some stuff like feet, and small parts.

 

[PotatoFi]

That is in exceptional shape! Very cool.

What is the difference between the FDHD and SuperDrive? I thought they just changed the name, but here it looks like there are two floppy drives present? Does it have dual 1.44mb floppy drives?

 

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That is in exceptional shape! Very cool.

What is the difference between the FDHD and SuperDrive? I thought they just changed the name, but here it looks like there are two floppy drives present? Does it have dual 1.44mb floppy drives?

It does have two 1.44 drives... I put them in!

The FDHD was the first gen of the SuperDrive, but apple didn't feel "FDHD" was friendly or "cool" sounding, hence the name change to SuperDrive.

The SuperDrive would go on to become a common word used for many storage solutions.

 

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Here are some more photos. I cleaned up the inside about a year ago. I also replaced some caps, the flyback, fan, and did a complete overhaul of the CRT.

If you can believe it, this machine was a dumpster dive I found on eBay about three years ago. The restore has been complete for about a year.

Thanks for the replies everyone! I didn't even know this site existed!

 

[Cory5412]

This is a very nice looking machine!

I had an FDHD way back in the day, but it didn't follow in the next move we made.

These were available with one or two diskette drives or an internal diskette and a hard disk, and with two internal diskette drives installed, they are one of (perhaps the only, I used to have a list) Macs that support three diskette drives at once.

The SuperDrive would go on to become a common word used for many storage solutions.

Only one, Apple's own DVD burners.

LS-120's marketing name is SuperDisk.

 

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This is a very nice looking machine!

I had an FDHD way back in the day, but it didn't follow in the next move we made.

These were available with one or two diskette drives or an internal diskette and a hard disk, and with two internal diskette drives installed, they are one of (perhaps the only, I used to have a list) Macs that support three diskette drives at once.

Only one, Apple's own DVD burners.

LS-120's marketing name is SuperDisk.

Yes, You could get the SuperDrive with two floppies, but wasn't it a bit uncommon? You never see them on eBay...

What I was trying to say was that apple used the Term SuperDrive from the later G3 iMac's internal drive up to the external burner for the MacBook Air and Mac Mini...

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

SE SuperDrives of any kind are new to me in terms of seeing one IRL or in a HiRes pic. I'd imagine they all have the SuperDrive tag line? Is it backward compatible with 800k and 400k Drives? With 1.44MB/800k internals, an external 400k FDD and external ZFP HDD or SCSI2SD internal, that might make the ultimate Compact Mac floppy conversion bridge machine. With a NIC in there it would be even better, bridging EtherNet and LocalTalk as well.

 

[Brett B.]

SuperDrive = FDHD and thus is backwards compatible... they are the same auto inject drives that are installed in all of the later machines.  It's just a name.  I had an FDHD SE years ago - pretty sure it had a 40MB hard drive and a single floppy.  I had a dual 800k SE too.  Cool hardware.

 

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I know the FDHD reads/writes all the formats, I just figured native 800k and 400k drives for reading and writing floppy disks for its forbears might work a bit better if problem situations might crop up when prepping disks for those stone age Macs. Having all three flavors of FDD in one running on an SE with Ethernet would be cool. If I can find a 5.25" interface card for my SE I may have to set this up just for kicks. I've got an FDHD board, SCSI NIC and all the drives, only the 5.25" interface card is missing.

 

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SE SuperDrives of any kind are new to me in terms of seeing one IRL or in a HiRes pic. I'd imagine they all have the SuperDrive tag line? Is it backward compatible with 800k and 400k Drives? With 1.44MB/800k internals, an external 400k FDD and external ZFP HDD or SCSI2SD internal, that might make the ultimate Compact Mac floppy conversion bridge machine. With a NIC in there it would be even better, bridging EtherNet and LocalTalk as well.

It's backwards compatible with 800k, but I think that SuperDrives will not work with 400k. In fact, some of the first SuperDrives are flaky even with 800k.

Not sure if you can put an 800k in a SuperDrive SE, but I don't see why you'd want to seeing most SuperDrives will work with 800k as well.

SuperDrive = FDHD and thus is backwards compatible... they are the same auto inject drives that are installed in all of the later machines.  It's just a name.  I had an FDHD SE years ago - pretty sure it had a 40MB hard drive and a single floppy.  I had a dual 800k SE too.  Cool hardware.

The first SuperDrives are not the same as the later ones. Much different. They are thicker, built better, and some have floppy support issues (one of mine does).

 

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It's backwards compatible with 800k, but I think that SuperDrives will not work with 400k. In fact, some of the first SuperDrives are flaky even with 800k.

Not sure if you can put an 800k in a SuperDrive SE, but I don't see why you'd want to seeing most SuperDrives will work with 800k as well.

You answered that question with your first statement.  []

Some flaky drives and most of them working doesn't cut it for a "Floppy Central" bridge machine. I'm curious about backward compatibility of the FDD Controller. Will it support an internal 800k FDD a/o will it support an external 400k FDD?