se/30

Hi Team, Anybody care to offer their 10c worth of advice on whether they think this battery bombed SE/30 can be restored - or is it a parts board? I've never attempted anything like this before, but I'm thinking fixing/replacing the ICs, traces, and ROM socket are achievable. But the vias...

Many of you are already aware of Phil Greenland's Github project where he uses ATTiny85 to replace the RTC (Real Time Clock) on SE/30 motherboards. It's neat because it saves PRAM to onboard flash memory. If you don't care about the date/time (doesn't get saved to flash), then you can forgo...

Hello everyone, This has been a long time coming... presenting the Macintosh SE/30 Vertical & Horizontal Bars on Display "Simasima" Repair Guide!! 🎉 This is a FREE downloadable PDF document (~55 MB) filled with high-resolution pictures and technical details. You can find this PDF file...

Now that Flickr has gone back to giving us faithful users another punch in the nose with their 1024px photo resolution limitation, I thought it best to present some hi-rez versions of my original SE/30 pics here, from back in 2006. That was the era before SCSI2SD and BlueSCSI — when everyone...

Just finished installing the LCD Retrofit Kit by @zigzagjoe and I'm excited to report it brings tack-sharp 640x480 INTERNAL color to your SE/30. Not an IPS display, but viewing angles are just as good. Brightness is a shocking 900nits. Best part is, your SE/30 remains a vintage Mac. (Not a Mac...

Full page Ad by Motorola flaunting the power of their 68030 processor by showcasing the speedy Macintosh IIx and SE/30 computers.

I bought a 157-026C flyback, not realizing it is meant for a Macintosh Plus, and thus is an older type than the one that is used in the SE/30. I have seen the 157-0042C, which is the one that is used for the SE/30, used as a replacement flyback in a Macintosh Plus, but I'm not sure it would...

Today I finally picked up not one, not two, but three Macintosh SE/30 machines. My goal is to restore these to working condition. I’m planning to keep at least one SE/30 (if any make it at all) to upgrade and tinker around. I want to use this thread as a log and document my progress. and also...

Hi all, this is my discussion post to the TD forums (welcome here) For my SE/30 quest I’m trying to understand the different SE/30 greyscale options. Let me first set out what I know and then come to the question. Currently available options are (in no particular order) 30Video GS - Internal...

Yesterday I was playing on my recapped SE/30 and noticed the screen has a very minor horizontal shake or wobble. Just a couple of pixels wide. It is sporadic and not constant. I let the machine run for a while and it didn't seem to affect it one way or the other. The main board and analog...

Hi all, Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere, though I couldn't find a relevant thread. I have a perfectly working SE/30. However, the activity LED on the front is very very dim. It does flash with activity on the hard drive, but it's so faint that you have to really look. I was...

I'm so jazzed, I just found an old SE/30, brought it home and tested it and it worked perfectly but I was nervous what I'd find once I opened it. However when I opened it up I found ALL of the capacitors were in excellent shape (NO bulging at all) as well as the ORIGINAL BATTERY from 1989 had...

Good afternoon all. I have a Macintosh SE/30 with some upgrades (128MB RAM, ROMinator, Carrera040), but most importantly a Bolle Twinspark/MacCon combo card. I bought it years ago, but only decided to try using it when I properly took a networking course in college to understand how networking...

Hi all, Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this topic or if there is a topics already around this, I'm a newbie! I have a Macintosh SE/30 with a Blue SCSI v2 with Pico W installed. Everything works great, except for internet. I have followed the instructions from the Blue SCSI website to...

I've spent the last two months working like mad on a comparison of the new (July 2024) Baby Face Electronics Power Supply, comparing it to my stock recapped SONY PSU and also to the SEASONIC PSU that I've been using since 2018. I also successfully tried the 16AWG wire recommendation by...

I created this side-by-side pinout diagram back when I accidentally connected my Daystar Turbo040 accelerator (intended for a Cache Slot) into the PDS pass-thru slot of my TS Adapter, installed in my SE/30. That resulted in one of the ASICs getting fried on the Turbo040 (it was later repaired...

Folks, which of the following two wire harnesses have a thicker wire gauge? (I know the answer already, BTW.)

Howdy Folks, So my resurrected battery bombed SE/30 continues to have BlueSCSI issues but after reflowing the SCSI chip it got a little...better? betterish? So here are the symptoms: With the caymac BMOW rom installed If I try to boot the external BlueSCSI from a cold boot it tries to boot disk...

I've been working on four SE/30 boards now for on and off for a few months just whenever I have a couple hours to spare. Well Tonight I had a HUGE win on the most damaged board I've been working on which you can see here: I would have live streamed it but my overhead light burnt out today...

Hey Folks, After troubleshooting on and off for a couple weeks I've managed to get my first SE/30 working :) As it turns out though that one was the easy one! I've got a second board here that's exhibiting some strange behaviour depending on whether I'm using the original rom sim or if I'm...