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Ok came too late to edit so sorry about the double post. Finally got my System 7 sound to work on the SE. Turns out the SE was being picky. It has to be 8-bit 22khz Mono and I had to copy over a "alis" resource from an existing system sound using ResEdit. (though I'm not sure if that was...

FloppyEmu sounds like something I'd want to use with a Plus or a 512k. But if I ended up going for a MicroSD card solution, SCSI2SD is definitely something I will consider. It all depends on what I got left over after I eventually get the SE/30 and if the SE/30 has a hard-drive. If it doesn't...

lol. I did not think to check the Quicktime software. I ran MoviePlayer (it would likely not run on an SE do to lack of color quickdraw) and it does support wave files. But I used AIFF anyways as I had already converted the file to that. Looks like I now have a "System 7 Sound" which is exactly...

lol. My wedge shaped Mouse I just got had some minor black smudges on the top. That came right off when I used the rough side of my dish sponge. Just moistened with water and used light scrubbing. Came right off and it's clean with no damage to the plastic. The sponge I used is not strong enough...

Ok, my Macintosh SE is up and running now with a mouse, hard-drive, and a scsi zip drive I snagged off eBay for a cool $14 shipped. Aside from not having a PRAM battery for the thing yet (I have removed the Maxwell time bomb a few weeks ago. :p ), there are no issues I'm having. I created a...

I recently posted a thread in the conquests thread. It shows me booting a Macintosh SE off a zip disk. So you can definitely use one as your boot drive. Though mine now has a working hard-drive so that's what I use to boot it. The bootable zip disk I made has verious versions of MacOS installers...

Figured I would wait till I had a complete system before posting this thread. My first post in this forum was in the compact mac section regarding a Macintosh SE. Now that the system is complete with a keyboard, mouse, hard-drive + other accessories, I can now show it off here. I later plan on...

Don't think I've read that one. My main reason for getting back into vintage macs is simply because I used to use them when I as a child, so sentimental reasons. :p

Lido won't fit on a floppy with both system software and other disktools. So just make a bootable floppy and put Lido on it. You won't have much room for anything else on that floppy. ;)

Does the drive still spin down if you power it on without the SCSI cable connected? if it does, then there's a problem with the drive. The old drives all should remain spinning as far as I know. Even with the cable attached it shouldn't be spinning down. I have a bad drive myself, but it...

I've heard hotplugging (or unplugging/plugging in a keyboard/mouse while the computer is on) can blow the fuse. There is a fuse for it somewhere on the logic board. Unfortunately I think you need a soldering iron and solder to properly replace it.

I think I had some caps fail on my monitor a year back. It took 6+ months before I managed to set aside money to buy a replacement power board that had the capacitors fail. (the power board was only like $15 or so, but I had other priorities at the time.) I noticed two caps were bulging on top...

SE/30 is a ***king beast. The only compact mac (after getting a 32bit clean rom) to go to Mac OS 8.1. :D How smoothly does 8.1 run on that?

Nevermind on the monitor. I think I found what you meant: New 9" SVGA monochrome monitors $70 %5BeBay%5D Cheapest ones I've seen are $65. There's still a original CRT for a SE/30 on eBay for about $10 cheaper then that and others in that price range might show up. So currently a more expensive...

Yeah agreed. I don't think it would make sense for a monochrome CRT to use a shadow mask. That's something color CRT's use and dot pitch is only relevant to those. There has to be separate phosphor for each color, so that's why you have a limit on how many you can have and still keep them...

How well does the SE/30 handle video? I wonder if you could play QuickTime videos on it and how much better they would look with the Xceed installed. I'd imagine frame rate might be a bit bad because of the age of the machine, but still would be something interesting to try. I thought about...

It probably can. There's nothing physically limiting the CRT itself from displaying as many greys as a normal B&W TV for that matter. It's mainly a limitation of the analog board/logic board of the original Mac. (that and an intentional design choice by Apple for the old Compacts. The...

Nice. I always wondered how the Xceed video add-on worked. So it comes with it's own special neckboard for the CRT and replaces the one that was originally driven by the analog board? (or does the existing one just plug into the logic board of the video card instead?) Either way that's pretty...

Unless you happen to come across one for cheap, I would think using a MacTV would be a rather expensive solution to this problem. :p However while the CRT won't mount directly into the front case of a 575, perhaps you can use the front casing of a 575 on a 580 rear case? Unlike the compacts...

Nice. Though I think you meant to say Centris 650 according to how it's labeled on the box. :p