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Thank you bibilit, I hope you're right: I'm going to buy a SCSI2SD device...

Thank you BadGoldEagle for your advise. Yesterday I tried to uncompress 4Mb .sit file (Excel 4 from Macintosh Garden, if I remember correctly) and after 20 minutes not even the progress bar was appeared. I want to install Code Warrior that I saw is more than 100Mb, so my initial question... :)...

I agree with you, but if I leaved the mac turned on during nights or as a server, I would turn off the screen and this should prevent damages to it (I think...).

Thank you for your replies. About the reason of my request, I saw that uncompress some big .sit archives can take quite a long time and so I was wondering whether or not to leave the mac turned on during the night to complete, for example, those kind of operations. Moreover I was wondering if...

In the last few days, my recapped and perfectly working SE/30... seems not to recognize its internal Hard Disk - floppy disk icon with question mark blinking appears at start up - and doesn't boot even if HD is spinning and HD light is blinking.  It can boot with floppy disk; for example with...

Hello, I'm not a technician, so my question could be silly for expert people: leaving a vintage mac, a Mac SE/30 in my case, turned on for hours, for example during nights, is it safe or it can catch fire? From an electric point of view, safety switch of house electrical plan should prevent...

One minute after I posted the message above, continuing my research on this forum, I found this:  https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/26879-lucky-se30/ BINGO!!! My ethernet card wasn't a MacCon but a Shiva!!! I've never heard it before... I've just installed proper driver and now I'm...

Hello Everybody, I've an SE/30 with Asante MacCon+ 30iE - thin (BNC  connector) + thick (AUI-DB15 connector) and a CentreCom 210T from AUI to RJ45 adaptor I recently bought. I tried to connect SE/30 to my MacBook Pro through a USB -> Ethernet adaptor that I successfully use to share internet...

Hello, I'm going to disassemble my old SE/30 to change the front bezel with that of another SE/30 (in a better condition). Once I discharged the CRT, can I proceed safely or I need to take some safety precautions, for example, in managing the transformer or something else? Thank you a lot.

Thank you for your advise. In that case, Elfen, is the original motherboard preserved?

Thank you very much, Elfen. I'm curious to see whether the 128k motherboard is the original one or not, since my father expanded the ram to 1Mb. I think that the expansion wasn't provided by Apple, but by another vendor, before Apple official program upgrades. The Mac has been turned off in...

Hello. I'm new here and I would ask you a question: is it safe to manage a CRT monitor of a Mac 128k that has been turned off for 2-3 months or do I have to discharge it anyway? I don't know anything about electronics... Thank you very much in advance.