Macintosh SE (M5010)

[John8520]

Not a whole lot to say about this one yet, as I don't have anything to test it with yet. Picked it up at a computer-centric thrift store this morning for $30. It's a dual-800k/1MB model that has an aftermarket HDD upgrade - not sure if the lower FD was upgraded to an FDHD. It's clean overall, fairly uniform yellowing, a good candidate for retrobright. It's also got the reset/interrupt button which is exciting, never had one for a compact mac.

All four RAM slots are populated (two seem to be aftermarket), and it has a soldered on battery that hasn't shown signs of leaking, and it measures ~2.87v. It has an interesting little piece of rough-cut PCB attached near RAM slots 1 & 3. Looks like a jumper to select between 2/4 & 1MB RAM. I'd like to know more about that. The aftermarket HDD is a MiniScribe 8425s that makes some pretty nasty noises, so it may be toast. Unfortunately it has a gouge along the top back right corner. The damage isn't that bad but the displaced plastic will need to be removed. Has some bad screen burn in too, the menu bar is visible even when powered off, not that big a deal though as far as I'm concerned. 

Pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/rQfkjxMFpRzEgSQv5

HDD Sounds: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z7chj67oh2wfo6v/SE%20HDD.m4a?dl=0

All in all I'm pretty excited about it, looking forward to getting it cleaned up and going.

 

[Johnnya101]

That's not bad at all!

I'd keep the plastic in the back he way it is personally, but do whatever.

Oh and I think it's safe to say 95% of all SEs and SE/30s have burn in! My Classic II and SE/30 do, yet my Plus and IIGS don't...

 

[sstaylor]

Interesting machine.  First time I've seen a battery soldered in an SE.  Funny little board for the ram too.  If I recall correctly, some of the older boards required cutting a resistor, later boards had a jumper for memory selection. (Or was that the Plus?  Hmmmm.)

In any event, looks like a nice one.  Enjoy!

 

[supernova777]

cool score. theres one for sale near me on craigslist for 50 bucks..

let us know how u get on with it!

 

[unity]

That is an early board, all had soldered on batteries.

The mini-board was a modification by Apple before the DIP SE board came out. So yes, its for setting RAM. And yes, early boards you had to cut resistors. Rather silly, hence this little board then the later board revision.

 

[jimjimx]

It's a dual-800k/1MB model that has an aftermarket HDD upgrade - not sure if the lower FD was upgraded to an FDHD..

To be a FDHD / Superdrive / 1.44MB, it would need a ROM & SWIM chip upgrade, as well as the floppy drive itself..

Or, upgrade it to a SE/30 motherboard...