Tosk wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:21 am
Checking the innards of an Apple Mac SE 30 - originally from Andy's brother who worked for NASA and the Voyager space probe missions at the time.
Circuit board of the Mac SE 30
Signatures of the team who designed the Mac.
Yes. Interestingly in cannibalising "some SE's from work for parts" after getting flooded by his upstairs neighbour, replacement of the rear case has created something unique, the process of putting the signatures in cases STOPPED with the SE, not every SE had them and the process was discontinued completely with the SE/30.
The Mac was got to a point of initialising asking for a boot disc : so a good start.
Yes it was much relief to get the 1989 dated battery off the board as it was just bulging.
Hard drive removal for archival was also a bonus. Unfortunately I had put the wrong image for the SE30 on the Sd card and forgot to check it had drivers for the DiiMio cpu expansion but can retrieve these when I image the drive.
Other things to note, the joys of working in a University in the mid 1990's Much "Higher spec" Motorola Macs were decommissioned. The "ROM" chip, which allowed "clean" use of the full 128mb RAM were scavenged from a later Mac II fx.
The "weird looking" networking card with 3 ports on italso came from a later Mac, most macs these went in didn't have FPU's like the SE30 so that was why there was the empty slot in the network card for one. them (IIsi, LC's and so on)
Basically it is a Mac II in a compact case, without the extra PDS slots and colour support.
I have found a place that does a recap service so will get in touch with them and see.
So, yes we got a fair way through my "To-Do list". Hopefully by the time of the "big meet" I might have something working reliably to show off.
Many thanks again
Andrew