University Surplus finds

[mcdermd]

Found an SE/30 at the university surplus today. Came with a black Apple branded canvas bag, keyboard, mouse, some original paperwork. $15!





Despite how clean it is inside (looks nearly brand-new under the slightly-yellowed covers) it seems to be suffering from some bad caps:



I should just be buying a bulk of those 16v 47mfd caps at this point.

I also managed to pick a 400MHz Pismo with the original 10GB drive and a 256MB RAM module on top of the processor card (don't know what's on the bottom ATM). It was $12 and missing the power adapter.

 

[Unknown_K]

Great find. Any idea what size the RAM in the SE/30 is?

 

[mcdermd]

UPDATE:

I replaced three of the worst caps (I only had two of the 47mfd 16v caps around) and ITS ALIVE! It has a bone basic load of System 7.5.3 with all of the self-mounting disk images still on the original Apple 40MB hard drive. 8MB RAM installed. No PDS cards. The CRT looks brand new, there was a trace amount of dust and no corrosion inside.



This one seems to be fairly early in the production dates (the serial starts with F911 - 11th week of 1989?). I notice a number of small differences between this board and my later 1990 SE/30. For instance, this one has a socketed 68030 and a EEPROM for the video ROM.

 

[bibilit]

I also managed to pick a 400MHz Pismo with the original 10GB drive and a 256MB RAM module on top of the processor card (don't know what's on the bottom ATM). It was $12 and missing the power adapter.

the SE/30 is a nice find and the Pismo is a great bonus.

 

[mcdermd]

Forgot to mention I picked up a 17" 1.6GHz iMac G5 for $20 with a bad power supply from surplus last week. I replaced the PS capacitors for under $5 and now it's running like a champ.

 

[Bunsen]

Is that a socketed CPU?

 

[mcdermd]

The SE/30? Yes.

The iMac G5? No.