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Got another clean SE/30 up and running.
Posted by: kastegir on 2008-04-24 21:47:57 I picked up a really nice SE/30 last week and got it up and running. Honestly, it didn't take much, as it was in great shape. I bought it from the original owner (bought new in 1990) for $40 shipped. Seemed like a fair price. 🙂 It has 8mb of RAM and the original 40MB hard drive. The speaker volume seems a little weak, so I'll have to look into that, but otherwise, it's really clean.
Posted by: MultiFinder on 2008-04-25 03:06:00 Ooo, awesome! Not a bad price for a fully-functional SE/30.
Posted by: MacMan on 2008-04-25 06:53:04 Sounds like a good deal. The weak volume is a problem that plagues many SE/30s these days, it is due to degredation of the capacitors on the motherboard. Both of my SE/30s have this problem, one quite a bit more than the other. There are various threads on these forums discussing repairs for these problems and even someone who is advertising replacement capacitor kits. If you fancy a bit of an electronic challenge the you could replace some of the caps, though if it is working alright at the moment I would just leave it be.
Posted by: kastegir on 2008-04-26 07:08:44 Agreed. For now, I'll leave this one running as is. This is actually my 3rd SE/30. I have one that pretty yellowed, but in god working condition that has an Xceed card an an accelerator in it and I also have one that's pretty beat-up that I may experiment with. It also has the volume problem as well as a flaky analog board. I may see about re-capping the logic board in this beat-up one as a test before working the other 2. The new clean one will be set up in my office along with the Mac Plus I've been cleaning up. 🙂
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