My good old SE

[cangrande]

So I dug out the old SE which I got new in 1987 and have been dragging around from house to house, because my kid wanted to play Zork, which apparently is now of interest to the 14-year-old set.

Anyway, the little thing started right up and actually still remembers the date (!!!) and works great. These guys have soldered-on batteries, as I recall. The startup noises of the old 20M hard drive bring back memories, that's for sure.

You are in a twisty maze of passages, all alike.

P.S. Any of you who remember (or are a fan of) games/movies from the 1980s need to read the book "Ready Player One" which is great.

P.P.S The screen is still in excellent shape--no burn in--because I actually had a paid-for version of 'Pyro' as a screensaver.

 

[tt]

Is it the buggy beta version?

 

[cangrande]

You know, I've had the Zork software for so long I can't even remember where I got it. I never had anything buggy happen that I'm aware of, but of course maybe it did and I just concluded I sucked at Zork I'll go see if it has a version number on it.

Or did you mean a beta SE, lol. It's got one 800K floppy and a 20M hard drive (the SuperDrive ones came later). And System 7.1 that I think I actually paid $100 for. Oh, an a whopping 2M RAM upgrade, which I remember scouring the back pages of MacWorld to find for ONLY $49!!!!! WOOO HOO. That was quite a deal at the time, actually.

 

[Scott Baret]

Be careful with the battery. If it's the original battery, and this machine is going on 25 years of age, you'll want to replace it as soon as you can. Leakage is never a good thing. Since you have the original model, you need to either solder the new battery on or solder on a battery holder. The batteries for the SE are the standard 3.6V 1/2 AA-size found in most desktop Macs.