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Scored my first SE today...

Posted by: drw72 on 2018-06-22 16:58:31 I picked it up off of Craigslist and it is the cleanest 30 year old computer I have seen. It is a 1986 (on motherboard) 1Mb/2 800k floppy model. Someone upgraded it with an HDD in the past and it still has the original 1Mb of RAM. The issue I have is that there is no access to the expansion slot....no cutout in the chassis. Anyone have info on this?

Posted by: mactjaap on 2018-06-23 15:54:51 What expansion card do you want to place? A Network card?

Posted by: CC_333 on 2018-06-24 22:59:31 Early SEs had no cutout because expansion cards were meant to install horizontally on the logic board. Later SEs and the SE/30 had the cutout for the more familiar vertical kind of installation. If you want, you could replace the chassis with a later one that has the cutout (other than that, they're identical, and thus fully interchangeable). It wouldn't be in original condition, though, and that is a fairly original looking early SE. Speaking of which, does it have a normal 60mm fan, or a squirrel-cage fan? If the latter, it is very early, as only the earliest had such a fan (all later ones had the box fan). c

Posted by: drw72 on 2018-06-25 03:12:37 Thanks for the info CC_333.... It has the squirrel cage fan. To answer mactjaap and your question, I do not plan on putting an expansion card in it right now. I was just checking out the inside and noticed there was no cutout.

Posted by: CC_333 on 2018-06-25 22:32:01 Neat! I had one like yours (I got it from the original owner about 9 years ago), but I stupidly upgraded the squirrel cage to a box fan (I still have it though, so I could put it back). c

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