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    Another SE restore (Tidy up?) thread

    Pretty much all done and now have everything working and cleaned, upgraded to 4mb new RAM Floppy spat it on first go, lots of noise and now won't eject but still reads and writes discs so just leaving it for now. Thanks to everyone on the community that helped from France, I think Denmark ? to...
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    Macintosh SE HD Activity Light Hookup

    Confirming the pointed to pins in the diagram works for the SC40 HD drive.
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    Macintosh SE HD Activity Light Hookup

    Awesome, thank you peoples!, I guessed it may be that one!
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    Macintosh SE HD Activity Light Hookup

    Hi Is it possible to hook up the Mac SE Hard drive activity light to a different HD. I want to install the Mac 40SC HD in my SE and was wondering if any of the pins pictured on the en d of the HD would run the activity LED on the front of the Mac. If not is there a way to hook up LED ...
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    Replacement Coloured Apple SE Front Panel Logo

    Wow, yes please! Do you have one for sale ?
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    Replacement Coloured Apple SE Front Panel Logo

    Is there anywhere to buy a front Macintosh Apple Logo, even a sticker would suffice, the metal part is still there but lost half the bottom in a clean. Cheers Ben
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    Another SE restore (Tidy up?) thread

    I think I saw your comment located in Deloraine
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    Another SE restore (Tidy up?) thread

    It works fine, check out the photos of the logic board above, I only dusted it, it looks new! Maybe the bag was the trick, been zipped in that for maybe over 20 years
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    Another SE restore (Tidy up?) thread

    Well good news starts happening, no tampering/weird mods inside, completely stock, oh well lets brush down the Logic Board, holy shit, no other cleaning, just a brush down with a shavers brush (pictured). Looks really good, no corrosion anywhere. Curiosity got the better of me and without...
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    Another SE restore (Tidy up?) thread

    Getting the itch again I had began scouring the socials for a bargain, was able to get this with the bag, keyboard and power cord (No mouse). So it's a Rev B 1986, I bought it unseen and was dropped it me for $250.00 (AUS), bit of gamble but it felt right. So first look over warning signs...
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    Classic Mac Restoration (First Post)

    I should update this post , everything is running fine, using a Blue SCSI, played around a bit with using a Basilisk emulator on the Mini and was able to transfer files that way, why I had dismantled. It's loaded with software and OS's it's done but wait..... Photo1 : So fresh and cozy in my...
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    Classic Mac Restoration (First Post)

    Well I decided to Retro Brite and dismantle and give it all a good clean, I have a very quiet fan on order as I should tried to oil the existing one but mad no difference or not much.
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    Classic Mac Restoration (First Post)

    Hi, thanks is this ok or should I go more on the vertical height ? Edit or should I say less!
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    So much Apple II software and nothing to use it on

    Thanks everyone! Yes I would truly want a IIe, I will keep looking, I have held the disks for 40 years! I can wait.
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    Classic Mac Restoration (First Post)

    Ah so 13.5 is not good, I did find my old MacBook G4, will see if that fires up
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