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| SE/30 hard drive LED mod | |
| Posted by: PB145B on 2018-06-02 01:32:11 I thought I'd show off this little modification I did to my SE/30s hard drive LED. I always loved the look of the red hard drive LED on the early production SE machines, so I thought it would be kinda neat to have one in an SE/30. I love the sort of "evil" look it gives to the machine. I had been wanting to do this for a while and since I was upgrading the hard drive anyways (from 420MB to 1.2GB), this was the perfect opportunity to do it! I am still considering a SCSI2SD but I love mechanical drives! Can't beat those wonderful sounds that they make! RAM is going to be the next upgrade for this SE/30.   | |
| Posted by: ants on 2018-06-02 05:10:04 Nice work, looks great! | |
| Posted by: Skate323k137 on 2018-06-02 05:52:13 Very nice. I put a blue LED in mine when I did the scsi2sd upgrade. You'll be able to hook your LED to the scsi2sd when you get one đ | |
| Posted by: Scott Baret on 2018-06-02 06:31:46 Nice! I also put a blue LED in an SE once and it looks really neat! I too like the red LED on the SE. They seemed to come exclusively with the 20MB MiniScribe; larger capacity Quantums almost always had the amber light (although I have seen a few very late model SEs with green LEDs--they may not be original though). | |
| Posted by: Skate323k137 on 2018-06-02 06:59:52 Mine indeed had the red led with the 20MB hdd originally. | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-06-02 08:12:56 Sweet, love the little things. | |
| Posted by: Von on 2018-06-02 08:50:32 The drive sled that my first SE/30 came with was red, yet I have another with a green led and 2 other sleds without an led at all. So what was the stock color LED in the SE/30? | |
| Posted by: PB145B on 2018-06-02 11:58:42 Thanks for the kind words everyone! So what was the stock color LED in the SE/30?ÂThe stock LED color was yellow. They seemed to come exclusively with the 20MB MiniScribeIâve seen the RED LED on Rodime drives too. I believe the very earliest production SEs came with Rodime 20MB drives (however I could be wrong). I have yet to see a newer SE with a RED LED though. All of the ones I have seen so far with a red LED have been the ones that say âcopyright 1986â on the labels rather that âcopyright 1988â like the newer ones have. My 800k SE from 1989 has a Miniscribe 20MB drive with a yellow LED. | |
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