A few months ago I bought a Macintosh SE on a local marketplace. It started up, but did not boot. When I picked it up, I brought some 800K floppy disks and my FEMU with me. The floppy drive was running rough, but it booted. Turned out the hard drive died. But still, it worked and was already upgraded to 4 Mb of RAM. Also nice: this machine came with an ethernet card build in that has an RJ45 port.
I bought it for a nice price, agreed on distroying the mechanics of the hard drive and took it home. I disassembled it and the insides was only dirty and dust, but the soldered battery was still in tact. I snapped it out right away and later I replaced it for a battery holder.
I cleaned the whole machine, did some work on the analog board, adjusted the screen, put in a spare hard drive of 120 Mb and replaced the floppy drive for one that worked. The one dan came with the machine needs cleaning and put it aside for later. With help of the FEMU I was able to put System 7.1 on it. A nice working machine that got a nice place besides his younger brother, my SE/30.
The ethernet card is from Sonic Systems with SE StNic Rev C DB-032 and Connector Card BD-033. Because the hard drive died, I had no drives for it, but they can be found online. But I did not get it working.
I few months go by and I was browsing on eBay. Somebody in Italy had for sale a set of ROM-chips to upgrade an SE to an SE FDHD! The 342-0701, 342-0701 and 344-0062-A were for sale. It was a nice price and bought it right away. Although I did not have any 1,44 Mb superdrives, I would be able to use 1,44 Mb disk images with my FEMU. So I could make my SE an SE FDHD in disguise.
Another idea came up: I had two 800K floppy drives. Could I turn my SE into the model with two 800K drives with on top of it a bracket with a BlueSCSI. To test that out, I took the floppy drive from an SE/30 with the caddy (805-5050-A) and try to stack it on top of the one in the SE. It fits well and with both floppy drives, disks goes in and out normally. So I bought on eBay another caddy and flat cable. The BlueSCSI came from my SE/30, because I ordered a Pico W version for that machine (and it works great). I hand made some kind of bracket to put the BlueSCSI on and also to screw the top caddy on the bottom caddy.
I did check on the voltages. I don't know if there are any tolerances, but this is what I measured:
- pin 8 = +12,72
- pin 6 = +5,039
- pin 5 = -11,67
Next thing to do is to get the ethernet card working. But I'm happy with the result so far. On the BlueSCSI are three disk images and it can run both 7.1 and 6.0.7.
I bought it for a nice price, agreed on distroying the mechanics of the hard drive and took it home. I disassembled it and the insides was only dirty and dust, but the soldered battery was still in tact. I snapped it out right away and later I replaced it for a battery holder.
I cleaned the whole machine, did some work on the analog board, adjusted the screen, put in a spare hard drive of 120 Mb and replaced the floppy drive for one that worked. The one dan came with the machine needs cleaning and put it aside for later. With help of the FEMU I was able to put System 7.1 on it. A nice working machine that got a nice place besides his younger brother, my SE/30.
The ethernet card is from Sonic Systems with SE StNic Rev C DB-032 and Connector Card BD-033. Because the hard drive died, I had no drives for it, but they can be found online. But I did not get it working.
I few months go by and I was browsing on eBay. Somebody in Italy had for sale a set of ROM-chips to upgrade an SE to an SE FDHD! The 342-0701, 342-0701 and 344-0062-A were for sale. It was a nice price and bought it right away. Although I did not have any 1,44 Mb superdrives, I would be able to use 1,44 Mb disk images with my FEMU. So I could make my SE an SE FDHD in disguise.
Another idea came up: I had two 800K floppy drives. Could I turn my SE into the model with two 800K drives with on top of it a bracket with a BlueSCSI. To test that out, I took the floppy drive from an SE/30 with the caddy (805-5050-A) and try to stack it on top of the one in the SE. It fits well and with both floppy drives, disks goes in and out normally. So I bought on eBay another caddy and flat cable. The BlueSCSI came from my SE/30, because I ordered a Pico W version for that machine (and it works great). I hand made some kind of bracket to put the BlueSCSI on and also to screw the top caddy on the bottom caddy.
I did check on the voltages. I don't know if there are any tolerances, but this is what I measured:
- pin 8 = +12,72
- pin 6 = +5,039
- pin 5 = -11,67
Next thing to do is to get the ethernet card working. But I'm happy with the result so far. On the BlueSCSI are three disk images and it can run both 7.1 and 6.0.7.
