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SpaceBoy
Full Member
USA
631 Posts |
 Posted - 17 May 2003 : 20:59:35
Howdy, folks!
Well, I'm happy to report that the sadly beat-up old Mac SE/30 that I bought at a school surplus sale last summer has come back from the dead!
A while back, I'd bought a Mac II/fx ROM chip for this little beastie (I can't recall who from, but it was a fellow MLA'er), but after installing it, the /30 never worked again, with or without the II/fx ROM simm... It would chime once at boot, and then display a screen full of garbage. I remember spending several long days tinkering with it, trying to resolve the problems, but they never went away...
Anyway, nearly a year later, I was cleaning my room, came upon the /30, and decided to toss it - I would normally offer it up here for trade/sale, but space is at an extreme premium in my room, and just junking it seemed like an okay idea...
So, just to be sure, I plugged it in, fired it up, and....... nothing. I tinkered with it for a while, but made no headway - no matter what I did, all I got was the screen of garbage, and nothing else. I was just about to give up and toss it, when I realized that I'd skipped Mac Repair Step 1: Zapping the PRAM! I did this a couple of times, got the garbage screen, but after about 20 secs., it cleared up and tried to boot!! Success! I digged out my old external SCSI case, found some old SCSI drives (80 and 160 meggers from old Mac projects), and the little sucker fired right up from the first one I attached! Plus, the 2-gig SCSI drive I'd installed internally works as well, now that I've run Norton (2.1, I think) on it, booting to System 6.1! Schweeeeet!
So, now all I need is some ideas re: what to do with it now that it's running.
For reference, it's got a 2-gig internal drive, working floppy, 32 megs of RAM, and, uhh, stuff.
I'm thinking about installing that slot-loading SCSI CD-ROM drive I bought a while back in this puppy... any thoughts?
Thanks!
:-)
SpaceBoy <resolves to never throw anything away ever again>Official MLA Raconteur
AppleBASIC FOREVER!
TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine"
PowerMac 6500/275
Performa 6400/180
3x PowerMac 7600/132
SE/30 32/250, "Wang"
PB 1400/133
PB 180/33
PMac 7100/G3-266
Quadra 950, "HAL 9000"
Newton 120, "PADD" |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2003 : 21:08:00
Oh, thank god it's working again!  Cleaned up the case yet?-------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster:
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emaq123
Junior Member
USA
258 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2003 : 22:45:24
Much too tired to think...Fileserver
Webserver
Great email, wordprocessing box
Infocom game computer
Printserver for old appletalk lasers
Thats all for now.
emaq123
SE/30 and system 6.0.8 Now we're talking POWER! |
QuadraJets
Junior Member
USA
344 Posts |
Posted - 18 May 2003 : 16:36:45
So that ROM I sold you is junk? hmmmmm...
I'm sure glad it didn't completely fry the mac though Artillery Commander/Engineer, 68kMLA
Liberated:
LCII , III+, IIci, Q700, 800, and 840av, P550, 410
Contraband: Beige G3/300 MT o/c 400mhz, (2) 6100's
Hotline mirror server:
68k.dyndns.org
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SpaceBoy
Full Member
USA
631 Posts |
Posted - 18 May 2003 : 17:51:34
quote:
So that ROM I sold you is junk? hmmmmm...
I'm sure glad it didn't completely fry the mac thoug
Actually, I think it's the one that's working! Turns out the old ROM chip has been fried, and the one I bought from you (from your Mac II/fx) is working like a champ!
Thanks!
SpaceBoyOfficial MLA Raconteur
AppleBASIC FOREVER!
TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine"
PowerMac 6500/275
Performa 6400/180
3x PowerMac 7600/132
SE/30 32/250, "Wang"
PB 1400/133
PB 180/33
PMac 7100/G3-266
Quadra 950, "HAL 9000"
Newton 120, "PADD" |
cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 18 May 2003 : 18:09:05
A/UX!!!!!
A/UX!!!!!
A/UX!!!!!WHEEE!!! that would be the COOLEST THING EVER!!!! it runs great on my IISi and... yeah! DO IT DO IT DO IT!!! Official 68k videographer
Official MLA TourGuide
"I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life"
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SpaceBoy
Full Member
USA
631 Posts |
Posted - 18 May 2003 : 18:27:38
quote:
A/UX!!!!!
A/UX!!!!!
A/UX!!!!!
WHEEE!!!
Hey, cool idea! Where would I find a copy that would run on this system?
Thanks,
SpaceBoyOfficial MLA Raconteur
AppleBASIC FOREVER!
TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine"
PowerMac 6500/275
Performa 6400/180
3x PowerMac 7600/132
SE/30 32/250, "Wang"
PB 1400/133
PB 180/33
PMac 7100/G3-266
Quadra 950, "HAL 9000"
Newton 120, "PADD" |
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W00T! SE/30 Has Risen From The Dead!
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