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Mac SE/30 - $125
Posted by: volvo242gt on 2023-06-07 18:43:35
Once I get the SE/30 recapped from your buddy that will be my main machine and I’ll use a BlueSCSI or a zuluscsc


Yeah no problem. The hard drive is dead from what I can tell so I’ll just be using a bluescsi or zuluscsi for the se/30 (preferably something internal) and then once the SEs are done I’ll be selling those off… your buddy will be able to recap the se/30 for cheap, just have to make sure he has time for it
Good deal. Sounds like you're all set.
Posted by: oldmacuser on 2023-06-07 20:24:07
oh! this is awesome! nice! joy of vintage computing!
Posted by: bibilit on 2023-06-08 09:46:12
8 Mb is the right amount of ram. In the picture, the first simm is 1 Mb, so eight of them are a matching set
Posted by: bibilit on 2023-06-08 09:50:49
And yes, the SE/30 should have a 1,44 drive and not the 800 k one. But the later will read 800k and even 400k disks without any issue, won’t work the other way round.
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-06-08 10:09:49
Yup, sorry, stupid websites, I searched for 41c1000 and they returned results... for the 41c4000. Multiple sites did it.

My bad. Was rushing.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2023-06-08 11:41:06
A brief rant about search engines:

Lately, it seems like search boxes everywhere (eBay, Google, etc.) keep second guessing me. Like, I'm searching for, say, "low power am", and without asking, it searches instead for "low power amp", which is sort of the same, but is different enough that it's not what I want, and I get results that are almost completely irrelevant (I want to search about low power AM, as in amplitude modulation, not low power amplifiers!). If this is AI at work, I don't like it. I know what I want, and I'd like to search for it without being corrected arbitrarily!

Rant over!

c
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-06-08 11:47:26
A brief rant about search engines:

Lately, it seems like search boxes everywhere (eBay, Google, etc.) keep second guessing me. Like, I'm searching for, say, "low power am", and without asking, it searches instead for "low power amp", which is sort of the same, but is different enough that it's not what I want, and I get results that are almost completely irrelevant (I want to search about low power AM, as in amplitude modulation, not low power amplifiers!). If this is AI at work, I don't like it. I know what I want, and I'd like to search for it without being corrected arbitrarily!

Rant over!

c
They've got a lot worse. "You searched for IIci, which is way less popular than IIfx, so we ignored you and searched for IIfx instead! Feel free to thank us"
Posted by: CC_333 on 2023-06-08 13:48:03
"You searched for IIci, which is way less popular than IIfx, so we ignored you and searched for IIfx instead! Feel free to thank us"
Good grief 🙄

c
Posted by: volvo242gt on 2023-06-08 15:57:27
Use quotes around the search keyword and usually it'll stop "correcting your misspelling"... As an example, if you search on Macintosh IIx on eBay, it'll say that it's also searching for Macintosh II, then return only the Macintosh II listings. Add quotes around IIx, and you get the Macintosh IIx listings. Another annoyance about eBay especially, if you are mentioning a part number or a serial number that happens to be six digits or more in a message to someone, you get flagged as if you're sending contact information and the message will not send.
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