The Mac SE Without a Radius Upgrade

[Compgeke]

Picked this up today for 1/33 of what that tag says. Great condition case, but no Radius like it says!

Anyways, pictures.

Back. Let's pretend that floppy drive is connected. I had pulled the board out for visual inspection and forgot to reconnect it.

The motherboard itself. Finding this rather than the Radius was actually a really nice surprise, even better actually. It has a General Computer Hypercharger 020, complete with a 68020 @ 16 MHz.

Hard drive doesn't spin up, or even make noises like it wants to.

Anyways, not bad for $3. I'll play with it more later as while it does turn on and complain it has nothing to boot from I found some moisture under the foil\plastic liner thing that goes under the motherboard. I'll make sure everything is dry before playing more.

 

[Unknown_K]

Great find for $3.

 

[Macdrone]

That's awesome!! Congrats!!

 

[bigmessowires]

Wow, where did you pick that up for $3? All I ever get are COLLECTORZ ITEM MACINTOSH SE $1295 STEVE JOBS!!!!

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

LOL! I still have that sticker, I never put it on my SE, which is long gone along with its Accelerator.

VERY cool! Is that a PMMU? Looks like SIMM Slots for more than 4 on that baby with Compact Virtual? If not, it must be 4MB at the 20MHz clock of the Accelerator, still a nice kick in the pants compared to the Radius Accelerators accessing System Memory across the PDS/MoBo Clock bottleneck!

 

[Byrd]

How did you haggle down from $100 to $3?

That upgrade looks the goods - nicely designed, full featured - I'd be happier funding that over a Radius accelerator.

JB

 

[CelGen]

Apply power to the hard drive and nudge the stepper arm (DON'T PUSH IT TOO FAR). If it doesn't immediately spin up, cycle the power. The head is likely stuck to the platter.

As awful as Miniscribes are I really like the noise those 20mb drives made. MAke sure you give it a good non-destructive exercise after however to make sure they drive won't immediately crap the bed on you.

 

[Sherry Haibara]

Wow, that's awesome! For 3$ it's almost a steal Congrats!

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Look at it this way, an added 10-15 miles more for round trip gas/vehicle mileage amortization on a pickup like that and $3 is better than a steal!

As awful as Miniscribes are I really like the noise those 20mb drives made.

Sounds like it's time for a Silent Drive/micro-cassette recorder with loopback hack . . .

. . . if you can find a Miniscribe that'll run under use long enough to make your recording.

.

 

[Compgeke]

 

Wow, where did you pick that up for $3? All I ever get are COLLECTORZ ITEM MACINTOSH SE $1295 STEVE JOBS!!!!

How did you haggle down from $100 to $3?

Ewaste find. I know someone who works with ewaste and they had this. I can only guess someone tried selling it at a yardsale, didn't get their $100 and just ewasted it to get nothing. 

I do find it weird the stuff that people throw out.

 

[TheDoctor]

I found I pretty interesting InfoWorld review of this accelerator card.  According to the review, properly configured, an SE with this card would outperform a Mac II.

 

[captaineos]

Amazing find!

 

[olePigeon]

Make sure to get a copy of Virtual Compact.

 

[Compgeke]

Found my TAM trackpad (which is a pain in the ass to use - might just be the ancient system since it isn't made for trackpads).

Has System 4.1, Finder 6.0. This old is a bit surprising to me considering it has an 020 upgrade but I guess whatever floats your boat. Detects 2.5 megs of ram and no idea if it's using the 020 or not yet.

Trackpad wonders a lot and I'm not sure if that's lack of calibration on the ancient OS or if it's trackpad issue.

Oh, and I can't open any programs.

Everything results in a "The file "whatever" could not be opened/printed (the application is busy or missing)" error, even known good stuff off floppies.

 

[techknight]

its definitely your trackpad. I have one on my TAM and its fine. it does have built in acceleration/pointer prediction which is annoying, but otherwise its fine.