Hello everyone!
My wife was in Japan recently, unfortunately, she was there to help settle her late mother's estate. As part of cleaning out her mother's house, she found her old Macintosh SE in the garage. Where it had been since she returned to Japan after going to college in the US many years ago. Her mother had attempted to throw it out, but it got a sticker slapped onto it noting that computers could not be thrown out in the regular trash pick up cycle
At any rate, my wife lugged the SE back here to our home in California. I didn't have high hopes as to what I'd find inside, and the SE didn't disappoint. The outside had that sticker residue, but didn't look too bad.
I opened it up and well this is how the logic board was indeed battery bombed. The corrosion spread to the internal frame to the extent that I literally chiseled the board out of the frame.
The frame had some areas of rust, with severe areas of corrosion due to the battery bombing, but plenty of rust from simply being out in a garage in the relatively humid climate of Japan for many, many years.
There were several passive components that had fallen off the board as their legs were eaten away. Kai took a look at the above photo of the logic board and let me know what he felt was recoverable vs not. (He also told me about Tinker Different and that was also great advice).
With that, I now had a new project on my hands, and I ordered a Macintosh SE Reloaded board from MacEffects and started looking through the bill of materials.
This is a Macintosh SE FDHD, with what looks like 4 MB of RAM.
My wife was in Japan recently, unfortunately, she was there to help settle her late mother's estate. As part of cleaning out her mother's house, she found her old Macintosh SE in the garage. Where it had been since she returned to Japan after going to college in the US many years ago. Her mother had attempted to throw it out, but it got a sticker slapped onto it noting that computers could not be thrown out in the regular trash pick up cycle
At any rate, my wife lugged the SE back here to our home in California. I didn't have high hopes as to what I'd find inside, and the SE didn't disappoint. The outside had that sticker residue, but didn't look too bad.
I opened it up and well this is how the logic board was indeed battery bombed. The corrosion spread to the internal frame to the extent that I literally chiseled the board out of the frame.
The frame had some areas of rust, with severe areas of corrosion due to the battery bombing, but plenty of rust from simply being out in a garage in the relatively humid climate of Japan for many, many years.
There were several passive components that had fallen off the board as their legs were eaten away. Kai took a look at the above photo of the logic board and let me know what he felt was recoverable vs not. (He also told me about Tinker Different and that was also great advice).
With that, I now had a new project on my hands, and I ordered a Macintosh SE Reloaded board from MacEffects and started looking through the bill of materials.
This is a Macintosh SE FDHD, with what looks like 4 MB of RAM.
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