Macintosh SE (and SE/30 Group

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Comment by LaurentB on November 16, 2009 at 8:43pm

The SE holds a special part in my love for Apple computers because it was my first Mac (SE FDHD).
Today, I own 2 SE (only one works - mint condition), and a SE FDHD transformed into a fish tank.

Comment by Joshua Coventry on July 14, 2009 at 2:40pm

Started restoration:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wackymacs/sets/72157621283407258/

Comment by Joshua Coventry on June 23, 2009 at 11:30am

I also recently acquired a complete set of SE manuals, including both the 1987 and 1989 user guides. I scanned the chapter page spreads from the '87 manual, which can be viewed here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wackymacs/tags/usersguide/

Comment by VannBaker on June 9, 2009 at 1:36pm

Hi Joshua, as they say at Native American gatherings . . . . "Good Trade".

Comment by Joshua Coventry on June 9, 2009 at 1:02pm

Recently got an SE for £1... Read about the acquisition here: http://68kmla.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10177

Comment by Rob Barnett on May 15, 2009 at 11:51am

I too got all of my compact macs on eBay. Except for a mac plus that I found abandoned in my apartment floors trash room. My classic compact macs: Two Se/30's, Mac +, and a Mac Color classic. All of which work, some better than others though... one se/30 is having a slow warmup video issue.

Comment by Phreakout on May 15, 2009 at 9:09am

I bought my SE in 1999 at a spring rummage sale that my local college was having. (Hey! I've owned it for 10 years now! Cool!) It was sitting there all alone, a dual 800k floppy with 1mb RAM and keyboard. I liberated for $20 USD. I brought it home and turned it on. It fired up, though it blinked a question mark inside a floppy icon.

Turns out it didn't have a hard drive and I didn't have the install disks for System 6 or 7 at the time. It didn't have a mouse, so I had to purchase a Kensington ADB/USB mouse. I later acquired a set of System 6 boot disks from a former employer and later installed an internal 1GB HDD.

The logic board's ADB ports suddenly stopped working, so instead of trying to fix it, I bought an SE/30 logic board from a member of the 68kmla (Thank you again, MacG4! It still works great!). I upgraded to 8mb RAM and installed a 1.44mb SuperDrive floppy from a dead Centris. It now runs System 7.0.1 with loads of apps I found online.

I plan on installing some form of UNIX for this little beast and see what I can really do with that kind of power.

73s de Phreakout.

Comment by Eric on February 14, 2009 at 11:04pm

I bought my Mac SE FDHD in 1990 for $1500 at the Sight and Sound at Patch Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany. Seemed like a real deal then. I still have it, although I haven't fired it up for years. I remember using CompuServe on a 14,400 modem, and thinking how fast it was then! I maxed the RAM (4Mb) and installed a processor upgrade card. My favorite timewasters were Klondike, Gunshy and SimAnt.

FYI, toaster Macs, mainly Mac Pluses, were used on SIMNET (the granddaddy of all networked simulation) as command and control consoles, artillery placement tools and more.

"Once you go Mac, you never go back!"

Comment by Paulo Vargas on February 13, 2009 at 6:22pm

Hello, i am from Brasil and dont have one SE but i will, i find one if 2 drives and no HD.
The mac SE is great!

Sorry for my english is not good!

Comment by VannBaker on December 26, 2008 at 2:11pm

My original SE was purchased new in 1987 which I upgraded with a video card in order to work with Quark XPress on a 19 inch b/w monitor.

This Mac's screen died a few years back so I gave it to a friend of mine to tinker with.

I have another Mac SE I rescued from a local Goodwill Store a few years ago, as well as a Mac Classic.

I've saved most all of my old programs from System 6 onward so I can load a game or two on the Macs, but mostly I have them in the office as a pleasant reminder of how far we've come and the good old days of modem dialup to Prodigy, Compuserve and AOL when a 1200 baud modem was screaming fast.

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