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SE/30 with box, PB Duo 230, eMac, G4 Mini etc

Cosmo

Well-known member
Saw today an ad offering an SE/30 with box and software + for the same offer free Powerbook Duo 230. So i offered some and i got it, the guy called me soon afterwards. Picked up same day evening. Wow, that was quick. Been looking for decent SE/30 for ages.

SE/30 (box, no styroform, rather good shape) - very clean machine, not much yellowing

- Was running System 7.5 SWEDISH, wich needs to be wiped off and have an fresh install of 7.5.5 FINNISH!

- 8MB RAM

- 40MB HDD

- Keyboard (box & styroform) - quite yellowed keyboard, one key broken, luckily have several better condition ones.

- Mouse - quite yellowed, have enough mises

Paperworks for the SE/30:

- User manual (in Swedish)

- Quick quite (in Swedish)

- Original guarantee letter filled with first owners information: day of purchase 1.9.1990! Owned by some company in the SW coast of Finland, small Swedish talking city. Had bought also Laser Writer II.

- Keyboard shortcuts leaflet

- Commercials for HyperCard (in Swedish)

- SE packing list (he had SE also?)

- SE/30 packing list

- 9 pages of COOL stickers (see pictures!) of "TEST DRIVE MacWrite / MacPaint" "TEST DRIVE Excel / MacProject") these look like 3.5" disk label stickers! There are 6 stickers per A4 sheet, but only two in the top have this printing, others have just the Apple-logo and Picasso-mac logo! These are really COOL!

- Apple SCSI Cable System (manual with packing list)

- Apple stickers (4 pcs)

- 7 sealed packs of 3.5" disk labels (Apple)

Software:

- System 6 (4 disks)

- System 6 (4 disks)

- AppleLink 6.1 (boxed, with installation disks and manuals)

- PowerBook Duo - additions disk

- Backups of all these system disks

- MACFormat Disk 32 (Xmas 95)

- MACFormat Disk 15 (Aug 94)

- MACFormat Disk 13 (June 94)

- MACFormat Disk 11 (April 94)

Powerbook Duo 230 (clean and works fine)

- 12Mb RAM

- 80MB HDD

- Power adaptor

I thought i had Duo 230 already but took it as it worked. Turns out that i had Duo 250 before, so it's even better this way.

+ Bag of SCSI cables & terminators, power cables, local talk cables etc etc.

+ Keyboard for iMac G3

+ Mouse for iMac G3

- So now have rather complete iMac G3 matching keyboard and mouse. Too bad i have not yet gotten good placement for it as my daughter will get the eMac OR "Moomin-Mac" as upgrade now.

The next all i got for free, picked from one company that sell and repair Apple computers. Were about to be trashed soon so had an change to pick what i wanted before that!

eMac (AKA "The Moomin-Mac"

- Have not yet booted up. Either 800 or 1Ghz model by the code.

- 128MB HDD

Mac Mini G4 1.25Ghz

- no ram

- no hdd

- no power adaptor

- Have writing on the cover, should be easy to clean up.

My first Mac Mini conquest! Do not know if this works. Need to borrow an power adaptor so can test this out.

Laptops:

- 11 pcs of different laptops "for parts" from iBook 12", 14" to Macbook and Macbook Pro's.

- Possibly none have RAM. They do not have HDD's, battery or power adaptors. One can always use parts.

Didn't take these…. just no space or interest right now:

- Powermac G5 Dual 2.0Ghz (motherboard issue?)

- Powermac G4 800? (PSU-broken)

- iMac G5's (motherboard, psu-broken) - several different with boxes, was tempted but no space/time to go thru these!

- Powermac G3 Minitower (motherboard, broken)

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Cosmo

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Here those images of "Test Drive" - stickers. I really like these!

Oh shoot, sorry about lousy images, they are as yellow as some compact mac's! They are actually white.

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Cosmo

Well-known member
Your wife is gonna kill you :)
For putting the "dirty old junk" in the sofa? Buhahahah, she's already in sleep :D

oh.. better wipe it clean just in case... just in case.

 

Cosmo

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The eMac was an 1Ghz model with stock 128Mb RAM wich i was able to upgrade 256Mb. Seem to have used all PC133 memory already.

So can't have native OS9 boot on that and need to get Classic enviroment working for this as older children games require pre-OSX.

The Powerbook Duo 230 was in great shape. 12Mb RAM, 120Mb HDD with System 7.1. Great addition!

The SE/30 seems to have some sort of Add-on card on it. Need to open it up and clean it up anyway, so then will know more.

 

Cosmo

Well-known member
Too bad the G4 Mini was dead. No power using intel mac mini's power adaptor.

 

Trash80toHP_Mini

NIGHT STALKER
Cool beans about that Lapis Card! Which one? Is it Grayscale or B&W?

Somebody in the Technical Support Units ought to tackle conversion of the old FPD/TPD signals to VGA. Timing Conversion to 60Hz for LCDs would be awesome.

Using a Pivoting LCD in FPD mode sitting next to a Compact would be unbelievably :cool:

 
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