krye
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I had one of my blog readers throw me an email saying he had a few vintage Macs that I could have for free. I offered to pay postage, but he wouldn't hear of it! Amazing the generosity of people.
I was thrilled to see that not only is it an SE, but an SE FDHD. I've been dying for another Fat Mac that can read 1.44s since my Classic died a few years back. I've had my eye out for an SE/30, but eBay prices are insane. I was surprised to see that this machine had 8MB of RAM. I looked at the logicboard and lo and behold, it's an SE/30 board!
The hard drive is dead, but it boots just fine from floppies as well as an external SCSI drive.
The Mac Plus too is an oddity. It was apparent as soon as I took off the cover. What's with the fan and extra power supply?
I pulled the board out, and what do you know, it's been upgraded to a 68030!
There looks like there's a ton of RAM on this board, but the system only reports 4MB. The floppy drive is dead, but again, boots just fine with an external.
He also gave me a 40SC, but the hard drive is dead.
Along with the 50-60 RAM sticks he gave me, he threw in 4 of these RAM expanders. I can't seem to find anything about them online. Does anyone know what machine they go in? They don't look like they'll fit in any of these machines the way the RAM slots are oriented.
I was thrilled to see that not only is it an SE, but an SE FDHD. I've been dying for another Fat Mac that can read 1.44s since my Classic died a few years back. I've had my eye out for an SE/30, but eBay prices are insane. I was surprised to see that this machine had 8MB of RAM. I looked at the logicboard and lo and behold, it's an SE/30 board!
The hard drive is dead, but it boots just fine from floppies as well as an external SCSI drive.
The Mac Plus too is an oddity. It was apparent as soon as I took off the cover. What's with the fan and extra power supply?
I pulled the board out, and what do you know, it's been upgraded to a 68030!
There looks like there's a ton of RAM on this board, but the system only reports 4MB. The floppy drive is dead, but again, boots just fine with an external.
He also gave me a 40SC, but the hard drive is dead.
Along with the 50-60 RAM sticks he gave me, he threw in 4 of these RAM expanders. I can't seem to find anything about them online. Does anyone know what machine they go in? They don't look like they'll fit in any of these machines the way the RAM slots are oriented.