superpantoufle
Well-known member
Hi all,
My last conquest is a SE/30 I found on a swiss auction site. I wanted one badly for a long time, so I bought it although I knew from the seller that the case was dirty and the display "flashy" (his words). It seems I shouldn't have been so confident. The price was pretty cheap, but the poor old guy is in an awful state. The case is ugly as hell, suffers from a severe burn, and is drawn all over with a pencil. Kid's computer, I guess.
The good news is that it boots just fine, under what seems to be a System 7.x. The bad news is that what the selle described as a "flashy" display looks like that:
(Sorry for the bad picture, taken quickly with my iPone in bad light conditions. What you see is the Question Mark Floppy, since I took off the hard and floppy drives to have a better access to the mobo and logic boards. NB: the five diagonal white lines are due to the CRT frequency. The actual image is stable, only with that "stripes pattern")
It was incredibly dusty and dirty in there. The logic board took a good bath in the dishwasher, but the picture was taken afterwards. So no success. There's no obvious sign of leakage of any sort, but some traces of corrosion on some components. I did my best to wash it with alcohol.
What do you think my options are? I'm the kind of "two-left-handed soldering-iron-disabled" guy, so a complete "recap" seems out of my range, really.
Shall I give up on that, and keep the SE/30 as spare parts, or try and switch analog boards and CRT's with those of a dead Classic and Performa 200 I've got around?
Thanks in advance for your wise advice!
My last conquest is a SE/30 I found on a swiss auction site. I wanted one badly for a long time, so I bought it although I knew from the seller that the case was dirty and the display "flashy" (his words). It seems I shouldn't have been so confident. The price was pretty cheap, but the poor old guy is in an awful state. The case is ugly as hell, suffers from a severe burn, and is drawn all over with a pencil. Kid's computer, I guess.
The good news is that it boots just fine, under what seems to be a System 7.x. The bad news is that what the selle described as a "flashy" display looks like that:
(Sorry for the bad picture, taken quickly with my iPone in bad light conditions. What you see is the Question Mark Floppy, since I took off the hard and floppy drives to have a better access to the mobo and logic boards. NB: the five diagonal white lines are due to the CRT frequency. The actual image is stable, only with that "stripes pattern")
It was incredibly dusty and dirty in there. The logic board took a good bath in the dishwasher, but the picture was taken afterwards. So no success. There's no obvious sign of leakage of any sort, but some traces of corrosion on some components. I did my best to wash it with alcohol.
What do you think my options are? I'm the kind of "two-left-handed soldering-iron-disabled" guy, so a complete "recap" seems out of my range, really.
Shall I give up on that, and keep the SE/30 as spare parts, or try and switch analog boards and CRT's with those of a dead Classic and Performa 200 I've got around?
Thanks in advance for your wise advice!