Here? In a small town?

[Cawfee]

So, I am not active in finding old Macs, but the Macintosh Classic Era Hardware interested me. I popped by my local Computer Refurbisher that started off with Apple Hardware. Saw a Macintosh SE, and was interested. Now, where I live is nowhere near known for holding expensive technology or even having money, but the gentleman got me in contact with an Apple Collector. Visited tonight, and scored a Macintosh SE with two 3.5 Floppy Readers built in, and not only that, a Rodime Systems 60 PLUS. As I understand it, with lack of knowledge on this stuff, how good of a deal was it? And from the sounds and looks of it, was $300 a good deal? The drive in it, being 60 MB, if it is original and has no bad sectors, does that mean an extremely good thing? I can send photos later, and even take a peek at the inner Drive Cage and drive brand.

 

[Brett B.]

More than I’d pay by a lot but I just sold a nice SE FDHD with no upgrades or extras for $200. If it spoke to you, that’s all that matters. The SE is one of my favorite machines - they are just not very upgradable and I think that hurts the value a bit for most people.

 

[Byrd]

Congrats on the find! If you have never seen one in your town and will never see it again, get it - a few hundred bucks for is fair. The Mac SE is generally very reliable (ideally recap PSU and analogue board caps in turn), and runs early software notably faster than a Plus.

 

[Juror22]

I did not see it mentioned - did it come with the keyboard and mouse included?
If not, I would definitely hit up the "Apple Collector" to provide you with ones (gratis) for the system you bought.

 

[Cawfee]

I did not see it mentioned - did it come with the keyboard and mouse included?
If not, I would definitely hit up the "Apple Collector" to provide you with ones (gratis) for the system you bought.

Yeah, got the power cables, the data cable (missing a thumb screw, but we can't have it entire for the age), and both mouse and keyboard too!

 

[ClassicGuyPhilly]

Congratulations and welcome to the SE club!

 

[Cawfee]

As promised, here are photos.

 

[luRaichu]

There is a 16 MHz 68030 CPU upgrade called the Performer. If you know how to solder you can build one or I can do it for a fee.

 

[Cawfee]

As promised, here are photos.View attachment 94787View attachment 94788View attachment 94789View attachment 94790View attachment 94791

I plan to buy a BlueSCSI to mount inside the system or design my own Drive Caddy so I can have an array of 2.5" HDDs, that way I can preserve the Rodime HDD while it is functional.. And are there any video game Recommendations for a beginner like me? I know one of them are The Oregon Trail. I think it'd also be fun to play some Text Adventures, but I don't know any.

 

[luRaichu]

I think it'd also be fun to play some Text Adventures, but I don't know any.

https://macintoshgarden.org/games/classic-text-adventure-masterpieces-of-infocom