Aaargh, what is it with people advertising stuff as "working", when it doesn't? At least it was only a 10 min. drive (why I didn't push for foto's etc before driving out).
Showed up, plugged it in, and booted into horizontal bars on the screen.
Asked him if he would let me open it up, which he did, whipped out my XXXL torx screwdriver, and sure enough, battery spilled it guts.
Told him not really interested as more then likely irrepairable (looked quite bad).
He really did want to get it out of his way, I ended up agreeing to 40€ for the lot.
What did I get for the money:
- A working albeit rather dirty Apple Standard Azerty keyboard (rather valuable for me as a Belgian, and it uses the orange ALPS switches)
- A working (again quite dirty) adb tank mouse
- Both the above with good, uncracked cables!
- A what looks like working 40MB hard drive, had a regular SE lying open with broken HD, quickly transplanted it, and looks like it might be working, booted like halfway through until freezing, might have been trying to load SE/30 stuff into the 1MB SE which it couldn't handle. Carefully optimistic here.
- 8 simms of what appear to be 1MB (8 1Mb TMS4C1024 chips)
- A presumably operational analog board (with working flyback transformer)
- A presumably operational PSU
- 2 appletalk phonenet adapter
- A still to be tested 1.44MB apple floppy, I will test it later on on my Duodock, apart from my portable, it's the only device I own supporting the 1.44MB Mac floppy drive (and I have a spare duodock which doesn't work, want to check that floppy as well).
Apart from the fact that I
still don't own a working SE/30, I am quite happy with the lot for what I paid for it.