Macintosh SE FDHD No Video or Raster

[BadGoldEagle]

Very nice. Congrats. 

Might I suggest the Floppy EMU for large (or small) file transfers? I have one myself and it's great. I'm not sponsored, just a happy customer. 

I don't use floppies anymore (which in a way spoils the experience) but when I really want to go full retro, I use it to duplicate floppy images to real floppies. It takes about 1 minute. The SD is hot swappable, so I just leave the EMU connected on the back of the (main) Mac, take the SD out, copy an image from the Mac garden, copy it to the SD, plug it back in, mount it and use the classic MacOS to duplicate it to a new physical disk. You can also use it to emulate a 2GB hard drive. 

But you can totally get away with a SCSI2SD too. It's about the same except you can't emulate floppies and you can't use it on non SCSI macs of course. Since I have quite a few far too many I prefer the Floppy EMU. 

I wish I could just plug a regular xFAT formatted USB stick to a SCSI emulator and mount the 'stick' on an old mac as an external device. Basilisk and Sheepshaver can "mount" HFS+/APFS folders to OS9 (it basically emulates a Unix drive ). It should be possible to create such a device but unfortunately I don't have the programming skills to do that myself...

 

[PotatoFi]

Might I suggest the Floppy EMU for large (or small) file transfers?

Cheater! But seriously... the Floppy EMU is awesome, looks like a great piece of kit. Idk if I need to get files back and forth enough to justify the expense, I think I'll keep a Windows or Linux VM around for the occasional floppy disk write . It really is too bad that there isn't a simple application for modern macOS that can read/write HFS floppies. Even if I could use the floppy drive with Mini vMac, that would be awesome... swapping floppies around is just so much fun (no sarcasm).

 

[Juror22]

Great news! The Macintosh SE is happily humming next to me on my desk with a working CRT. The culprit was a disconnected leg on a component, specifically this filter at F1. The damage was obscured by a glob of hot glue.

I have an SE FDHD that would not boot (known bad analog board - unknown what was wrong) and I came across this last night on a search and on a whim, thought, "Hey I'll check that out..." and I cannot believe it, but this same filter had one leg disconnected on my board as well!

I removed the broken stub and cleared the hole, soldered in the remaining piece of leg (reflowed several other joints and cleaned the fan while I was there) and then tried it out and it started right up!

A very belated thanks to @PotatoFi for finding this and posting about it.