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Help identifying test software on SE/30
Posted by: Amon_RA on 2023-04-02 12:39:05
Someone local was selling a Mac SE/30 and attached the following picture :

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Does anyone know which test software this is?
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-04-02 12:41:35
Snooper?
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-04-02 12:42:53
Posted by: Amon_RA on 2023-04-02 12:46:57
Snooper?
Wow, that was quick!
Thank you 😀
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-04-02 12:50:02
Wow, that was quick!
Thank you 😀
It's a well known program 🙂

Snooper - Macintosh Garden

Snooper 2.0 detects hardware problems and sources of intermittent failures. It performs over 200 major component tests, prints the results, and logs errors. It also does benchmark testing and reports on system configurations to allow technicians to find and fix problems quickly.
macintoshgarden.org macintoshgarden.org
Posted by: Amon_RA on 2023-04-02 13:07:03
It's a well known program 🙂

Sorry, I got my first Macintosh about a month ago, so everything is new to me 🙂
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-04-02 13:10:02
Sorry, I got my first Macintosh about a month ago, so everything is new to me 🙂
Absolutely no problem 🙂 I was making excuses for why I recognised it.

I hardly use it, I tend to run System 7.1 and use Norton System Info for benchmarking (part of Norton Utilities) and Mac Test Pro for doing hardware tests.

What mac did you get?
Posted by: Amon_RA on 2023-04-02 13:26:56
Absolutely no problem 🙂 I was making excuses for why I recognised it.

I hardly use it, I tend to run System 7.1 and use Norton System Info for benchmarking (part of Norton Utilities) and Mac Test Pro for doing hardware tests.

What mac did you get?

Thank you, downloading Norton Utilities and Mac Test Pro... 🙂

I got an SE/30 together with a broken Color Classic (got it repaired in the mean time).
Last week I scored a cheap Performa 475, for which I'm still awaiting an RGB to VGA adapter from ebay.

I actually never owned a Mac before, not even the modern ones (always been a Linux guy). I got into Apple ][ collecting a few years back, and felt that it was time to move on to Macintosh machines.
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-04-02 13:38:59
I got an SE/30 together with a broken Color Classic (got it repaired in the mean time).
Last week I scored a cheap Performa 475, for which I'm still awaiting an RGB to VGA adapter from ebay.
The SE/30 is an absurdly good machine. 16MHz... you feel it drawing the anchor if you push it hard, but the stuff it can get done for a, what, 1988?? Machine is amazing.

The 475 is a machine that almost everyone has in their collection, they're small and they're quick. Can you solder? If you move two 0805 resistors from their pads to two others, it overclocks to 33MHz, although you should add a heatsink to the CPU if you do it.

I actually never owned a Mac before, not even the modern ones (always been a Linux guy). I got into Apple ][ collecting a few years back, and felt that it was time to move on to Macintosh machines.

I grew up with macs but have drifted away to linux these last 10 or more years. I would say these days I'm mainly a System 7.x and Debian family user 🙂

Thank you, downloading Norton Utilities and Mac Test Pro... 🙂

For the machines you have, you'll want 3.1.x or 3.2.x of Norton Utilities.

Norton Utilities 3.1.x - Macintosh Garden

Norton Utilities 3.1.3. DL #1: 4 x Disk Copy 4.2, 1.4MB floppy disk images, in StuffIt v 4 ".sit" archive. DL #2: Second download is 3.1.
macintoshgarden.org macintoshgarden.org

And the 68k version of Mac Test Pro

MacTest Pro - Macintosh Garden

MacTest Pro is repair-oriented diagnostic software that can test logic boards, video cards, monitors, floppy drives, hard drives, and CD ROM drives. It can also detect software corruption problems, and the existence of multiple System Folders on a volume. MacTest Pro is intended for use by Apple...
macintoshgarden.org macintoshgarden.org
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-04-02 13:39:31
(I've never owned a Color Classic)
Posted by: joshc on 2023-04-03 02:36:00
Last week I scored a cheap Performa 475, for which I'm still awaiting an RGB to VGA adapter from ebay.
You don't want an RGB to VGA adapter for the 475, you want a DB15 -> VGA adapter. Hope that's what you meant.
Posted by: Amon_RA on 2023-04-04 10:31:52
Can you solder? If you move two 0805 resistors from their pads to two others, it overclocks to 33MHz, although you should add a heatsink to the CPU if you do it.
Yes I can, overclocking was already on my planning.

I grew up with macs but have drifted away to linux these last 10 or more years. I would say these days I'm mainly a System 7.x and Debian family user 🙂
Nice!

For the machines you have, you'll want 3.1.x or 3.2.x of Norton Utilities.
Thanks you.
Posted by: Amon_RA on 2023-04-04 10:32:29
You don't want an RGB to VGA adapter for the 475, you want a DB15 -> VGA adapter. Hope that's what you meant.

Yes, sorry, that is what I meant 🙂
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