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 to ask questions and receive some feedback along the way. Hopefully this is the correct subforum for such a post and of interest to the members.
My starting point of this journey is: I have been looking for a project SE/30 for a while. I decided the on SE/30 for mostly its era, compactness and upgradability. Several sales didn’t go through until recently. These three were listed on local classifieds and were part of a practitioner’s office. These Macs never moved home until today. From the listing I gather that the right SE/30 powers on, shows a cursor and then throws error that it can find boot media. But since these machines have not seen use or service in a very long time I wont be powering them on for now.
Next, I’m going to do a full disassembly, inspection and some cleaning, just to get a better sense of the state of matters. Will I find exploded batteries? Devastated boards from capacitor leaking? Or some really cool upgrades? Till next time…
I want to use this thread as a log and document my progress. and also to ask questions and receive some feedback along the way. Hopefully this is the correct subforum for such a post and of interest to the members.
My starting point of this journey is: I have been looking for a project SE/30 for a while. I decided the on SE/30 for mostly its era, compactness and upgradability. Several sales didn’t go through until recently. These three were listed on local classifieds and were part of a practitioner’s office. These Macs never moved home until today. From the listing I gather that the right SE/30 powers on, shows a cursor and then throws error that it can find boot media. But since these machines have not seen use or service in a very long time I wont be powering them on for now.
Next, I’m going to do a full disassembly, inspection and some cleaning, just to get a better sense of the state of matters. Will I find exploded batteries? Devastated boards from capacitor leaking? Or some really cool upgrades? Till next time…
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