MassiveBarry
Member
Good Afternoon fellow macheads,
*rant warning. skip to 2nd paragraph for actual problems*
Heh, I would've joined this forum years ago had I known about it. About me & my SE; I'm not much of a collector per se, currently I own a Powermac G4, a Mac Mini G4, a rev1 iMac G3, and an SE/FDHD. I was quite young when the SE was in its heyday, but after messing around with one at school for a whole day I wanted nothing more than one of my own, so It was a little like realising a childhood dream when I bought mine for under £1 in 1998. Since then its been through a lot, including 6months in college when it was my main computer, due to the untimely death of my PB5300cs (worst mac ever). When I bought it, I maxed out the ram and bought a 9600 baud modem. In 2002 I replaced the 2nd FD with a 2GB HDD and upgraded to 7.0.1. while I was in there I replaced a lot of capacitors, namely these (I think, it was a while back) C1, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, C8, C9, C10, C12, C13. Then in 2005 I got an Asante Ethernet card for a steal on eBay, and It's been hooked up to the broadband in my study ever since. It sees almost daily use, especially since it got ethernet, as it gets to my email inbox a LOT faster than the other computers
Now for my actual questions:
1- I put the hard disk in the top FD slot. I've read in a few places that it's possible to install a hard disk without moving either
floppy, but I've never seen a source for this. If anyone has any information on that, that would be great as the top slot is kinda ugly as it is.
2- In the 8 years my SE has had a hard disk, it has always run system 7.0.1. Every now and again I get intruiged by 7.5, but I've never actually installed it, as It was quite RAM intensive on my PB. So has anyone run 7.5.x on an SE and gotten it to do anything useful?
3- It was yellow when I got it and I think it's getting yellower. This is something I know absolutely nothing about, Is there any way to restore the cases original colour? sorry if that's a stupid question, as said, I know nothing about plastic.
4- And finally, it's missing the screws under the handle that hold the case together. While that was a godsend the first time I opened it, I would really like to know of any sources for replacement screws.
Other than these minor things, It runs great and is still a pleasure to use. ;D
Thanks for reading, looking forward to some insight,
Barry
*rant warning. skip to 2nd paragraph for actual problems*
Heh, I would've joined this forum years ago had I known about it. About me & my SE; I'm not much of a collector per se, currently I own a Powermac G4, a Mac Mini G4, a rev1 iMac G3, and an SE/FDHD. I was quite young when the SE was in its heyday, but after messing around with one at school for a whole day I wanted nothing more than one of my own, so It was a little like realising a childhood dream when I bought mine for under £1 in 1998. Since then its been through a lot, including 6months in college when it was my main computer, due to the untimely death of my PB5300cs (worst mac ever). When I bought it, I maxed out the ram and bought a 9600 baud modem. In 2002 I replaced the 2nd FD with a 2GB HDD and upgraded to 7.0.1. while I was in there I replaced a lot of capacitors, namely these (I think, it was a while back) C1, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, C8, C9, C10, C12, C13. Then in 2005 I got an Asante Ethernet card for a steal on eBay, and It's been hooked up to the broadband in my study ever since. It sees almost daily use, especially since it got ethernet, as it gets to my email inbox a LOT faster than the other computers
Now for my actual questions:
1- I put the hard disk in the top FD slot. I've read in a few places that it's possible to install a hard disk without moving either
floppy, but I've never seen a source for this. If anyone has any information on that, that would be great as the top slot is kinda ugly as it is.
2- In the 8 years my SE has had a hard disk, it has always run system 7.0.1. Every now and again I get intruiged by 7.5, but I've never actually installed it, as It was quite RAM intensive on my PB. So has anyone run 7.5.x on an SE and gotten it to do anything useful?
3- It was yellow when I got it and I think it's getting yellower. This is something I know absolutely nothing about, Is there any way to restore the cases original colour? sorry if that's a stupid question, as said, I know nothing about plastic.
4- And finally, it's missing the screws under the handle that hold the case together. While that was a godsend the first time I opened it, I would really like to know of any sources for replacement screws.
Other than these minor things, It runs great and is still a pleasure to use. ;D
Thanks for reading, looking forward to some insight,
Barry