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Hi, It has a Miniscribe 20 MB drive. Huge and noisy compared to the 250 MB Quantum in the other. -Mike

Thanks, yes just looking something simple.

Hi, Recently acquired a bunch of vintage compact macs. I’m wondering about the connectivity options. I would like to connect one of my IIgs (rom3) to a few SE/30 and SE’s. 2 of the SE/30’s have Asante ethernet cards. Would the best setup be localtalk and one of the SE/30’s run localtalk...

Looked at SE today, this one had a soldered on battery. Desoldered and will order a holder. Has 4 MB and cleaned board and it booted right up.

Box of Mac software looks to be all HD 3.5 disks, no system SW. I’ll grab the images from here to boot off the floppyEMU in HD20 mode. Need to order the updated ROM SIMM. https://www.savagetaylor.com/downloads/downloads-macintosh/

Thanks, I have lots of reading to do. -Mike

Hi, I have a dim CRT on one of the SE/30’s is that a sign of bad caps? I have’t tried adjusting the CRT pots only the brightness control on the front. Mike

I’m in the US but used to travel to Australia for work. -Mike

Thanks, I’ll place my parts order once I take all the machines apart and see whats wrong with each.

Hi, Yes, its patched into to video harness. Maybe it was used to drive a mono external monitor in the past? There is no board on the expansion slot. It looks like a hack the previous owner did. -Mike

SE FDHD works. 2 megs of RAM.

Yes, I’m surprised all the batteries so far have not exploded and everything has worked so far. These machines were made to last, quality of the boards is much higher than the old Atari boards. This will be the last one I’ll look at today, wife is not happy about all the mess. It is an SE...

3rd boots now. The internal drive is corrupt, so I hooked it up to the 1st SE/30 drive. The issue was the plastic SIMM holder the plastic tab on the left was missing the locking tab. I jury rigged some electrical tape on the ROM SIMM to provide enough pressure to make contact. This SE/30...

3rd booting to simasimac screen. Will try cleaning SIMM contacts and ROM contacts.

3rd one is a Mac SE, but it looks like a different type of SE/30 logic board inside. It also has an external monitor cable addition inside the case. Very strange, will take a look after lunch.

1st SE/30 boots off floppyEmu, screen is bright but never finishes loading to the desktop. I tried an 800k system 6 image. Not sure if its an issue with floppyEMU. The box on the left is full of 3.5 floppies with SW. I also got a bunch of external SCSI drives but no cables. 2nd SE/30 board...

1st SE/30 board out, looks like 11 surface mount caps leaked, battery removed it did not explode overall board looks clean. No internal SCSI drive.

Hi, Recently picked up a bunch of old macs. I primarily collect Apple II, Atari and Amiga home computers so not new to vintage computing. These were sitting on a shelf in an unheated garage for at least 20-30 years. I’m guessing most of the caps and batteries are toast. Where can I source...