Zhinü
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A while back I thought of comparing various machines together to see which one would’ve been the better buy back then and now.
One of the machines on the comparison block is the Macintosh SE, which I’ll be comparing to a similar PC counterpart that was being sold roughly around the same time.
So I hopped on eBay and grabbed the cheapest one I could find at the time, a 100-dollar untested unit that came with an Apple Standard Keyboard and a mousepad. It came weirdly packaged, but with no damage (just a lot of styrofoam), so I took and tested it. It gave two bongs and no images; so I took it back downstairs to take it apart on the workbench.
On first look it seemed pretty standard, a SE with a taped-over floppy port that was either broken or meant to be disabled. It’s also missing the FDD blank that’s supposed to be in the upper drive slot to fill it in. (Speaking of that if anyone has a spare I’ll buy it off of you).
However, some interesting… modifications were on it.
One of the machines on the comparison block is the Macintosh SE, which I’ll be comparing to a similar PC counterpart that was being sold roughly around the same time.
So I hopped on eBay and grabbed the cheapest one I could find at the time, a 100-dollar untested unit that came with an Apple Standard Keyboard and a mousepad. It came weirdly packaged, but with no damage (just a lot of styrofoam), so I took and tested it. It gave two bongs and no images; so I took it back downstairs to take it apart on the workbench.
On first look it seemed pretty standard, a SE with a taped-over floppy port that was either broken or meant to be disabled. It’s also missing the FDD blank that’s supposed to be in the upper drive slot to fill it in. (Speaking of that if anyone has a spare I’ll buy it off of you).
However, some interesting… modifications were on it.