CYB3RBYTE
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Since this last June, I’ve been messing around with classic macs in my spare time. I started with PowerPC Macs back in 2010 and haven’t looked back. From those days I still have a maxed out 1.25GHZ 17” iMac.
Back in June I picked up two classic macs for $50. They came with an ADB keyboard and mouse, ethernet adapter (SCSI), and some system floppies (mixed 7.1 installs). The first mac, a Classic, was battery bombed and unsavable logic board wise, however the analog board, floppy drive, HD, and CRT were all in good shape. The second Mac was an SE, an original 86’ machine with two 800k drives, and it had a dead power supply.
I fell more in love with the SE and it’s look, and as it turns out, it was my dad’s first mac back in the day. It became kind of sentimental to me and I was determined to revive It. I replaced all the caps in the power supply, only to find it still didn’t work. I then got a replacement power supply off eBay, which brought the machine back to life! It booted and was running on a system 7.1 install just fine.
However, this SE had RAM issues, and I even posted about it before the database failure. It would always boot, but it always had vertical jailbars. I tried everything I could to get them to go away, replacing the resistor to change RAM capacity, different RAM, etc. It just wasn’t working out. The machine also had several cosmetic issues, so I began the quest for a nice SE.
Back in June I picked up two classic macs for $50. They came with an ADB keyboard and mouse, ethernet adapter (SCSI), and some system floppies (mixed 7.1 installs). The first mac, a Classic, was battery bombed and unsavable logic board wise, however the analog board, floppy drive, HD, and CRT were all in good shape. The second Mac was an SE, an original 86’ machine with two 800k drives, and it had a dead power supply.
I fell more in love with the SE and it’s look, and as it turns out, it was my dad’s first mac back in the day. It became kind of sentimental to me and I was determined to revive It. I replaced all the caps in the power supply, only to find it still didn’t work. I then got a replacement power supply off eBay, which brought the machine back to life! It booted and was running on a system 7.1 install just fine.
However, this SE had RAM issues, and I even posted about it before the database failure. It would always boot, but it always had vertical jailbars. I tried everything I could to get them to go away, replacing the resistor to change RAM capacity, different RAM, etc. It just wasn’t working out. The machine also had several cosmetic issues, so I began the quest for a nice SE.