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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Mac SE dual floppy | Posted by: Juror22 on 2012-06-23 21:51:35
I have a few compact macs, but I saw a dual floppy SE on eBay and without too much thought, bid the .99 it was started at. Shipping added quite a bit more, but it looked like it came with an external hard drive and a keyboard, so when I won it, I expected to get little more than a bare bones machine, but it was a little bit better than I expected.
It arrived with a Cutting Edge external 80 MB HD (no cable , it uses db25 connectors, not the centronics 50 that most external drives of that era seem to take) still need work up a cable to test it.
The best part was the internal 30MB drive that I found , when I opened it up. It also came with a programmers switch, system 6. 01 and 1MB of memory. It boots fine. I'll probably bump up the memory a bit, but it is nice, having An earlier system.
| Posted by: bibilit on 2012-06-23 23:50:33
Congrats !!
Any picture of the setup ?
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2012-06-25 07:59:20
it uses db25 connectors So do SCSI Zip drives - if you can find a Zip cable, that should work.
| Posted by: Juror22 on 2012-07-01 20:55:59
I have posted some pics, sorry it took a while, the iphone 3g images that I originally took were awful and I had to take others with my camera.
The pictures are of:
1 & 2 The SE with the case off (memory upgrade already installed) showing the internal HD - it is REALLY clean inside, other than an odd patina on the frame.
3, 4 & 5 The Cutting Edge HD with the case open, the clear panel with the terminator resistors, and from the back, showing the connectors.
http://profile.imageshack.us/user/juror22/
| Posted by: bibilit on 2012-07-02 11:53:40
Very nice indeed, i like the rainbow ribbon 🙂
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