Bolle
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Figured it might be time for one like these for me as well.
The start is going to be made by a SE I just picked up from the post office:
It was advertised as an SE/30 by the seller and the pictures in the auction showed it indeed had a SE/30 sticker on the back. Also notice the network card - the reason for me to get this one in the first place:
This one either had to be a homemade SE->SE/30 upgrade or someone just swapped around parts between machines back when it was still in use. With the price being low I did not even bother to ask the seller to investigate this further and take more pictures and just had him send it to me right away.
Turns out it is a regular SE with 800K drive, IWM and old ROMs and a 20MB Miniscribe drive. Logicboard is dated 1986 and has a soldered battery, so one of the earlier boards. The internal chassis also is the old original SE chassis without the cutout for vertical PDS cards like found on later SEs and SE/30. Did not have one of those yet.
To my surprise the Miniscribe works just fine after rocking the interrupter to overcome stiction. The SE booted right up and the drive checks out without any bad blocks. Never seen a working Miniscribe in person yet - awesome noises it makes.
As the pictures of the back of the machine indicated it had indeed a network card inside:
This is an Asante MacCon + SEE. You do not seem to see these (or any other SE NICs) very often.
The SE seems to have been used as a Router. There was Apple Internet Router installed together with Apple Share and MacTCP. Even though After Dark is installed as well the screen has some pretty bad burn in. This SE has done some work back in it the as it seems. Even more it is surprising to me that the Miniscribe is still working today - just imagine the hours and hours it must have been running.
Now if there would be a way to use the network card together with one of my 030 Accelerators for the SE. Passthrough hack time anyone? }
The start is going to be made by a SE I just picked up from the post office:
It was advertised as an SE/30 by the seller and the pictures in the auction showed it indeed had a SE/30 sticker on the back. Also notice the network card - the reason for me to get this one in the first place:
This one either had to be a homemade SE->SE/30 upgrade or someone just swapped around parts between machines back when it was still in use. With the price being low I did not even bother to ask the seller to investigate this further and take more pictures and just had him send it to me right away.
Turns out it is a regular SE with 800K drive, IWM and old ROMs and a 20MB Miniscribe drive. Logicboard is dated 1986 and has a soldered battery, so one of the earlier boards. The internal chassis also is the old original SE chassis without the cutout for vertical PDS cards like found on later SEs and SE/30. Did not have one of those yet.
To my surprise the Miniscribe works just fine after rocking the interrupter to overcome stiction. The SE booted right up and the drive checks out without any bad blocks. Never seen a working Miniscribe in person yet - awesome noises it makes.
As the pictures of the back of the machine indicated it had indeed a network card inside:
This is an Asante MacCon + SEE. You do not seem to see these (or any other SE NICs) very often.
The SE seems to have been used as a Router. There was Apple Internet Router installed together with Apple Share and MacTCP. Even though After Dark is installed as well the screen has some pretty bad burn in. This SE has done some work back in it the as it seems. Even more it is surprising to me that the Miniscribe is still working today - just imagine the hours and hours it must have been running.
Now if there would be a way to use the network card together with one of my 030 Accelerators for the SE. Passthrough hack time anyone? }