Torbar
Well-known member
Figure doing a conquest topic seems to be a trend, so I figure I'll do one too rather than individual topics for each find.
A buddy of mine was looking for a compact Mac to hook up to his Emulator II synth since the software for it was only written for classic Mac OS, so in keeping an eye out I found 2 SEs on craigslist for $50 total. No keyboard/mouse, untested, but they looked to be in decent enough shape, so we took the gamble and went halvsies on them.
Both are pretty much a base model, 1MB of RAM, 800k drive, 20?MB HD. They belonged to a copy shop and have sat in boxes in storage for the past ~30 years
Popped them open, no leaking battery(they were the soldered on battery, idk if those are less likely to leak?), removed the batteries, and they powered on no issue for the first time in almost 3 decades. Hard drives were dead and the floppy drives needed a good cleaning, but popped a scsi2sd in and was able to run 6.0.8 on them no issue. Probably going to see if I have some extra RAM lying around and do an upgrade of mine to 4MB
A buddy of mine was looking for a compact Mac to hook up to his Emulator II synth since the software for it was only written for classic Mac OS, so in keeping an eye out I found 2 SEs on craigslist for $50 total. No keyboard/mouse, untested, but they looked to be in decent enough shape, so we took the gamble and went halvsies on them.
Both are pretty much a base model, 1MB of RAM, 800k drive, 20?MB HD. They belonged to a copy shop and have sat in boxes in storage for the past ~30 years
Popped them open, no leaking battery(they were the soldered on battery, idk if those are less likely to leak?), removed the batteries, and they powered on no issue for the first time in almost 3 decades. Hard drives were dead and the floppy drives needed a good cleaning, but popped a scsi2sd in and was able to run 6.0.8 on them no issue. Probably going to see if I have some extra RAM lying around and do an upgrade of mine to 4MB