Recent content by sje

On a second examination of the SE main board, I've noticed that the replacement of the soldered battery was performed at least once. I'm having no luck with getting a good attachment of any wiring to the terminals of a 3.6 V 1/2 AA battery.  If I'm going to take the SE revival any further, I'll...

Ah, my location is not important; please allow me to retain an air of mystery.  Thank you. ==== I've gotten the four 128 MiB DIMMs for my PM7600, so now I can return to working on making some OS 7 installation diskettes.

I might mention how all this got started; a sort of cautionary tale.  It was a few months ago that I came across several boxes of 800 KiB floppies, entirely unreadable by any of my hardware and which contained a lot of my stuff from the Old Days.  Having had a lot of electronics experience...

Thanks to all for your replies. At present I'm waiting for four 128 MiB RAM DIMMs to show up for my PM 7600 to bring its memory up to 1 GiB.  The VRAM and cache are already maxed.  Once I get the final RAM chips installed, I can close up the machine and proceed with using it to make some OS 7...

From their twenty year stint in a New England barn, I procured one Mac SE and two Mac SE/30s.  I was mostly interested in the SE/30s, as I had worked with one back in the day when one cost US$6,000 and was affordable for my employer but not me. The SE was missing its second floppy drive, and as...