The stock SE 800k

[smrieck511]

Recently spent a day restoring mine to 100+ % with a bright green HD activity LED and BlueSCSI. Just wanted to mention what a great machine I think this really is. I have a bunch of other compact Macs but this is definitely one of my favorites. Unpretentious. Rock solid. But still very capable of word processing and 80s apps/games. Just get the battery out and reflow some solder joints on the analog board (and maybe recap the analog board/PSU/Floppy drive). 4mb RAM, 8mhz...knows it's station. Doesn't pretend to be a wannabe SE/30 like a Classic II or an FDHD. Also the 800K drive seems more robust than the 1.44's. Maybe just the one I have.

And you can still get them cheap.

In my opinion, one of the most reliable, greatest Macs ever made....(System 6 of course)

 

[Unknown_K]

I like the SE and SE FDHD and they would be the oldest compacts I deal with. Standard SCSI and ADB, reliable, good system 6 or 7 machines, and cheap.

Not sure that the 800K drives are much better than the auto inject superdrives. DD blanks are getting harder to find.

 

[Byrd]

Agree, they're great Macs - great style on a desk, inclusion of ADB a big plus and majority of anything made for black and white software just works. Compared to a Plus they are also noticeably faster.