Yay I have an se 😊

[SophieRose]

Thanks @joshc a great addition to my lil Mac clan.

 

[ClassicGuyPhilly]

Nice! Welcome to the SE club!

 

[Phipli]

My first Mac of my very own was my SE I used to do my homework on it and "print" it using a HP pen plotter.

They're nice machines. Happily run 7.0.1 or 7.1, but idea is dual booting, 6.0.7 or 6.0.8 for every day use, 7.* when needed for compatibility.

Do you have 4MB in it?

 

[zefrenchtoon]

Any expansion card in it ?

 

[LaPorta]

Oh, how great!! I know you’ve been waiting quite some time for it!

 

[Snial]

Thanks @joshc a great addition to my lil Mac clan.
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Shock! I think we'd all assumed you had several ;-) ! Looks very clean and bright! Also, nice keyboard - I have an Apple Keyboard II for my Performa 400 (though the <| power key certainly doesn't turn it on). Thanks to @croissantking, I have a replacement flyback for my SE; so there might be another SE to join the ranks in early 2024!

This also begs the question: what OS are you running on it & what applications would you install? (obviously ones that need <=3MB).

 

[olePigeon]

@Phipli You had a pen plotter as a kid?! Man, I would've given anything for one of those.

 

[Phipli]

@Phipli You had a pen plotter as a kid?! Man, I would've given anything for one of those.

Yeah, a HP 7475A

It had manual controls so I could use it as an etch-a-sketch. But mostly with MacDraw and ClarisCAD.

We have a boxed copy of the driver MacPlot by Microspot somewhere. Really cool interface if you haven't used it. It is like the Finder and you drag pens into the carousel instead of files and folders.

 

[VMSZealot]

Yeah, I love my SE. I don't bother with System 7 on it (although I remember my dad giving me a shrink-wrapped System 7 box on the day it was released, and the sinking feeling of oh balls - now I need to get a memory upgrade! Then there was the trepidation of dismantling it for the first (of now countless) times, and the fear of breaking something. The point of no return snipping of the resistor… And… And…). Back in the day, System 7 was pretty good on it - but now I have more suited machines for System 7.

So my SE has System 6 on it, and gets used for Arkanoid, Pinball Construction Set, Starglider, the Magnetic Scrolls adventures, and other software that gets sniffy about running on newer machines.

 

[olePigeon]

Yeah, a HP 7475A

It had manual controls so I could use it as an etch-a-sketch. But mostly with MacDraw and ClarisCAD.

We have a boxed copy of the driver MacPlot by Microspot somewhere. Really cool interface if you haven't used it. It is like the Finder and you drag pens into the carousel instead of files and folders.

I have a floppy disk for MacPlot, but not the box. Mine is version 4.2 "Standard." What version do you have?

I also (relatively recently) briefly had an HP 7475A. I modified it to use regular height pens. I then made my own 3D printer adapter for Sharpie pens. It worked surprisingly well.

 

[olePigeon]

Oops, didn't mean to hijack the thread. Sorry, I'll stop.

 

[SophieRose]

Stuck 6.08 on an mo for now.. loving it. Yeah it has 4mb.

 

[LaPorta]

6.0.8 is best. No need for 7, especially if you have the IIfx.

 

[joshc]

Glad you’re happy with it.

 

[cheesestraws]

Nice! Yeah, 6 is best for those machines.

 

[ClassicGuyPhilly]

Is this the first Compact you've owned?

 

[SophieRose]

Is this the first Compact you've owned?

I had an se back in the late 90s with a 20 inch ecl monitor attached via a card. Was a huge setup. It feels so good doodling on the little screen

 

[Snial]

It feels so good doodling on the little screen

That's a really interesting point. I usually play with Mac Plus emulators, but when I re-powered my Plus in preparation for the UK Meetup I was really struck by how cute the 9" screen is. It really is dinky, with dinky icons and graphic elements all seemingly oversized compared with the displays we're now used to. And of course it bulges out a bit which is appealing in its own way.

Good sketch BTW!

 

[ClassicGuyPhilly]

@Snial what do you mean "dinky"? 9" screen was a huge step up from my Smith Corona word processor

 

[bigmessowires]

I see your tiny Smith Corona display, and raise you my KIM-1



(not actually mine)