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Mac SE/30 with regular Mac SE front???
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2022-08-14 13:12:22
Yeah, that's a far better plan...
Posted by: Berenod on 2022-08-14 14:17:06
Yeah, that's a far better plan...
Fingers crossed!
Posted by: Berenod on 2022-08-15 04:50:38
Aaargh, what is it with people advertising stuff as "working", when it doesn't? At least it was only a 10 min. drive (why I didn't push for foto's etc before driving out).

Showed up, plugged it in, and booted into horizontal bars on the screen.
Asked him if he would let me open it up, which he did, whipped out my XXXL torx screwdriver, and sure enough, battery spilled it guts.
Told him not really interested as more then likely irrepairable (looked quite bad).

He really did want to get it out of his way, I ended up agreeing to 40€ for the lot.

What did I get for the money:
  • A working albeit rather dirty Apple Standard Azerty keyboard (rather valuable for me as a Belgian, and it uses the orange ALPS switches)
  • A working (again quite dirty) adb tank mouse
  • Both the above with good, uncracked cables!
  • A what looks like working 40MB hard drive, had a regular SE lying open with broken HD, quickly transplanted it, and looks like it might be working, booted like halfway through until freezing, might have been trying to load SE/30 stuff into the 1MB SE which it couldn't handle. Carefully optimistic here.
  • 8 simms of what appear to be 1MB (8 1Mb TMS4C1024 chips)
  • A presumably operational analog board (with working flyback transformer)
  • A presumably operational PSU
  • 2 appletalk phonenet adapter
  • A still to be tested 1.44MB apple floppy, I will test it later on on my Duodock, apart from my portable, it's the only device I own supporting the 1.44MB Mac floppy drive (and I have a spare duodock which doesn't work, want to check that floppy as well).
Apart from the fact that I still don't own a working SE/30, I am quite happy with the lot for what I paid for it.
Posted by: Berenod on 2022-08-15 04:54:34
Not sure if the mainboard would be worth trying to salvage:

Before the first cleanup:
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After the first attempt of cleaning it up:
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Posted by: joshc on 2022-08-15 04:58:02
Unlucky. It looks like fairly light battery damage compared to some I've seen, but it will still require repairs to those traces and probably replacement of the F258s. Some vias look destroyed too so that might cause bigger issues.
Posted by: Andrew on 2022-08-15 05:23:21
Now I'm pretty much certainly not going to the seller of the shady SE/30...

Another /30 popped up, basically round my corner.

Put a bid of 150€, under condition that it can be booted before purchase, and the seller accepted!

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Some screen burn is visible but still very good price

edit: just saw the rest of the posts
Posted by: joshc on 2022-08-15 05:36:44
Oh yeah, and a replacement RTC (Real Time Clock) chip will be needed too. Also new diodes to replace the rotten D1 and D2.
Posted by: Berenod on 2022-08-15 06:04:16
Oh yeah, and a replacement RTC (Real Time Clock) chip will be needed too. Also new diodes to replace the rotten D1 and D2.

It's the via's I'm worried about!
Some traces to repair is doable, as is the replacing of the rtc and or ic's....

Probably a fair bit over my skill level...
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-08-15 06:09:57
It's the via's I'm worried about!
Some traces to repair is doable, as is the replacing of the rtc and or ic's....

Probably a fair bit over my skill level...
Get yourself a couple of broken PCBs from friends and family, some enamelled wire (the type you can solder through the coating) and get some practice. Its a worthwhile skill to learn.

But also don't let me push you into doing it if you don't want to.

Bruce has good videos to watch :
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