Search results

Wow, coffee with an astronaut, AND you got a sweet decked-out SE with a space case. This is a legendary conquest.  Congrats!  Well-written and well-told story too, I might add.

Do I detect a trace of humor in this thread?

Good PSA, james_w!  I keep putting off recapping the Sony caddy-loader in my LC550.  I need to get to it before the cap goo does!

Looking forward to seeing your progress with this!

Just chiming in to say I really enjoyed this mod!

reallyrandy, I bought the enclosure pre-printed off eBay.  I'm not sure if it is the same as this one, but they look very similar if not identical to me.

Thank you!  Progress has been slow on this machine (I've had it for almost a year and a half now) so I'm glad to see the project wrapping up. Got the RAM in today: Settled on 32MB, I think that's a good amount for this machine.  Any more than that feels unnecessary to me.

I'm loving this!  That is one sweet SE/30.

Hello all, I want to thank everyone who hacks and develops stuff for vintage computers.  In my opinion, it's the most exciting thing going on in the vintage computer world!   Twenty years ago, it would have taken a business enterprise with a formidable amount of capital and a staff of...

I got a few peripherals in today that I'm really excited about!  The first is a USB Wombat from Big Mess O' Wires: I have an AlphaSmart 3000 that I really like to write on, but no way to send writing from the AlphaSmart to the SE/30.  There is a very hard-to-find ADB cable for it, but I...

As a big fan of the LC5xx series, my commiserations on your loss.

Work the vertical height pot back and forth... this is so glaringly obvious, how was it not the first thing I tried? Thank you techknight! I've worked the pot back and forth. If that doesn't do it, I will check the solder joints on the yoke itself and resolder the entire neck board.

Well, got my answer to that pretty quick.  It's still doing it after reflowing the entire analog board :-/

I reflowed all the solder joints today with flux.  I'll update you guys in a week or two about whether or not this cured the problem. (I will eventually buy a good solder sucker and actually resolder the entire board; reflowing is a temporary fix)

Watch out for cracked solder joints on the logic board connector. I've taken my SE/30 apart so many times that the joints started to go. The picture on the monitor would cut out and then come back on full brightness (retrace lines and everything) with an awful pop sound from the analog board...

I've been doing a lot of writing on my SE/30 lately, including stuff for school. Here's what works for me: Word 5.1 (SE/30) -> Open .doc with LibreOffice (modern MacBook Pro)-> either copy paste to google docs or save as modern .docx and open with Word 2016 No formatting gets lost...

I just installed a SCSI2SD and a 1GB industrial SLC card.  I've been doing a lot of writing on this machine lately, including stuff for school, and I didn't trust an old mechanical hard drive with actual work. It's mounted using joethezombie's excellent SCSI2SD Universal Mount.  I had it...

Have you tried it in a few different systems where other hard drives work? If you can't get it to spin up anywhere then it's probably dead, especially if it's a Quantum brand drive. 50-pin SCSI drives are dropping like flies; working examples are getting hard to find and, even when found...

Thank you everyone for your input.  I will sit down one of these days and resolder the entire thing, with special attention paid to the components/signal path that APM pointed out.

Try sliding the logic board in and out while pressing the power button on the keyboard repeatedly. Back when I had a CC, I accidentally shorted +12v and ground. After the short, I got the exact same symptoms that you have now—chirping analog board—until I did the sliding trick. That brought...