I've spent the past week or so attempting to coordinate with a gentleman who had listed a pair of Macintosh SE/30's on our local Facebook Marketplace. His listing included a few basic pics, with a title reading "Vintage mc computers" and a description that lacked virtually any useful details at all: "Old mc compute, no power cord." (both quotes are exact copy/pastes)
The seller would only reply to messages with a single word, so arranging a meetup was... not easy LOL. Nevertheless I persisted, and we finally synced up yesterday. The meetup spot was a storage locker at the far end of a dead-end alley in a somewhat sketchy part of town so I definitely had some second thoughts when I pulled up, but thankfully he was friendly and helpful in person. He shared that both "Mc" computers formally belonged to his father in law before he passed, so his wife had asked him to make sure they found a good home. That's me!
Other than a bit of menu-bar burn on the CRT's, they both appear to be in decent condition. The more yellowed of the two has some ominous rattling / clanking sounds inside, so I suspect that its hard drive sled might be loose, and of course, I'm just hoping that neither of them are battery-bombed. I don't see any signs of corrosion on their ports at least...
The irony is that I picked them up late yesterday, and now I have to go out of town for a week - I won't be able to crack them open and see how bad things are inside until next weekend at the earliest! Oh well, I'll just have to enjoy the antici....
...pation.
Huxley
The seller would only reply to messages with a single word, so arranging a meetup was... not easy LOL. Nevertheless I persisted, and we finally synced up yesterday. The meetup spot was a storage locker at the far end of a dead-end alley in a somewhat sketchy part of town so I definitely had some second thoughts when I pulled up, but thankfully he was friendly and helpful in person. He shared that both "Mc" computers formally belonged to his father in law before he passed, so his wife had asked him to make sure they found a good home. That's me!
Other than a bit of menu-bar burn on the CRT's, they both appear to be in decent condition. The more yellowed of the two has some ominous rattling / clanking sounds inside, so I suspect that its hard drive sled might be loose, and of course, I'm just hoping that neither of them are battery-bombed. I don't see any signs of corrosion on their ports at least...
The irony is that I picked them up late yesterday, and now I have to go out of town for a week - I won't be able to crack them open and see how bad things are inside until next weekend at the earliest! Oh well, I'll just have to enjoy the antici....
...pation.
Huxley
