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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Here's a new one... | Posted by: SuperSVGA on 2017-12-27 13:30:20
So I ordered an SE/30 off eBay last week, and it just got today.
Opened it up, looked to be in pretty good condition. Fully sealed in bubble wrap, no damage from shipping (although the FedEx guy was putting the note on the door as he knocked, didn't even bring the package with him). The Apple badge on the front was missing, but that's fine, I have plenty of those.
Boot it up, got vertical lines and no chime.
I popped open the case and began to remove the network card (the reason I bought it mostly) and found it was a MacCon IIsi SE/30. Mystery solved there.
I fully removed the network card for now, then I removed the logic board. I looked over the board a bit. It's my first SE/30 board with a socketed processor, and the caps were interesting as well. They didn't appear to be visibly leaking yet. It also had a patch wire on the bottom that looked standard. I swapped the RAM out with known working SIMMs just to see if the solution was as easy as that.
I go to put the logic board back in to test and right as I'm putting it back in some sort of wasp/hornet comes peeking out of the place where I'm about to put the logic board. I have no idea how it got in there. My only theory is that it crawled in through the floppy drive and has been there for a while.
Maybe I'll get over my childhood fear and go back into the room someday.
| Posted by: beachycove on 2017-12-27 17:32:05
Who’d have thought it? A bug in a computer!
BTW, the IIsi and the SE/30 share a PDS Ethernet card. It's reasonably valuable, too.
| Posted by: unity on 2017-12-27 17:36:45
Clearly the SE/30 has a bug.
| Posted by: SuperSVGA on 2017-12-27 17:37:26
BTW, the IIsi and the SE/30 share a PDS Ethernet card. It's reasonably valuable, too. Yep, I've been searching eBay for them for the past month but never found any. Discovered this one was included in the SE/30 but wasn't in the description. Sadly it doesn't have 10Base-T, only 10Base2 and AUI. Hopefully that AUI adapter I ordered works for it.
| Posted by: IlikeTech on 2017-12-27 17:39:09
Maybe I'll get over my childhood fear and go back into the room someday. I agree with this. Got stung in the neck once and it was not fun at all. Thanks goodness I am not allergic!
| Posted by: jack on 2017-12-27 20:38:58
Who’d have thought it? A bug in a computer! Grace Hopper even coined the term... 😉
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