Thanks to Macdrone for pointing me in this direction (and his overwhelming generosity)!
I enjoy keeping an eye on eBay, Craigslist, and Freecycle for whatever catches my eye, and had just been on a gathering spree. I was given an eMac from someone who swore it worked if I would just take a bunch of non-working electronics and CRT's off his hands. I agreed, hoping to use the eMac for my daughter. Of course it didn't work... While contemplating what to do, I saw there was an SE just up the street. It turns out this lady was selling everything and moving from Oregon to New York to be near her daughter. I told her I'd come by and get it, but she'd have to power it up for me as I didn't want ANOTHER dead computer. When I got there, it powered up to a the :?: , which was good enough for me. She then gave me an SE in its original box, an ImageWriter and StyleWriter (also in boxes, but I don't think they are original) and some random floppies. Apparently her daughter had used this SE to get through college years ago and was now a writer/editor in New York, and she was pleased it was going to a good home (my son wants to be a computer engineer and enjoys monkeying with old hardware).
My wife was a little less happy... She had an SE/30 in college. In fact, we had that SE for the first 5+ years of our marriage stored in the basement somewhere. After 2 moves it disappeared. She's never admitted to it, but I suspect she sent it off to Goodwill rather than store and move it so much. I'm the pack rat, she's the declutterer. Regardless, I'm happy to have a little nostalgia back. I wasn't such a big computer guy when we got married. Am now...
Anyway, got the SE home and couldn't get past the :?: . An email to another group brought a response from Macdrone, and the rest is history. The SE now works beautifully!
p.s.
The eMac is now working too! It was filthy inside and needed a good cleaning, and had a bad/mismatched memory stick that was preventing it from booting...
I enjoy keeping an eye on eBay, Craigslist, and Freecycle for whatever catches my eye, and had just been on a gathering spree. I was given an eMac from someone who swore it worked if I would just take a bunch of non-working electronics and CRT's off his hands. I agreed, hoping to use the eMac for my daughter. Of course it didn't work... While contemplating what to do, I saw there was an SE just up the street. It turns out this lady was selling everything and moving from Oregon to New York to be near her daughter. I told her I'd come by and get it, but she'd have to power it up for me as I didn't want ANOTHER dead computer. When I got there, it powered up to a the :?: , which was good enough for me. She then gave me an SE in its original box, an ImageWriter and StyleWriter (also in boxes, but I don't think they are original) and some random floppies. Apparently her daughter had used this SE to get through college years ago and was now a writer/editor in New York, and she was pleased it was going to a good home (my son wants to be a computer engineer and enjoys monkeying with old hardware).
My wife was a little less happy... She had an SE/30 in college. In fact, we had that SE for the first 5+ years of our marriage stored in the basement somewhere. After 2 moves it disappeared. She's never admitted to it, but I suspect she sent it off to Goodwill rather than store and move it so much. I'm the pack rat, she's the declutterer. Regardless, I'm happy to have a little nostalgia back. I wasn't such a big computer guy when we got married. Am now...
Anyway, got the SE home and couldn't get past the :?: . An email to another group brought a response from Macdrone, and the rest is history. The SE now works beautifully!
p.s.
The eMac is now working too! It was filthy inside and needed a good cleaning, and had a bad/mismatched memory stick that was preventing it from booting...
