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You can see some green discolouring of the silkscreen in the bottom right.
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Much of the gross stuff washed off, bathing it in a sequence of detergents/vinegar/IPA/etc: Undeterred (give it up, Matt, come on), I spent a weekend trying to resurrect it. (If it were a private seller taking money for a machine that sounded like it washed up on a beach, it’d be a different level of fury.) It was disappointing, but the money paid for this one is just a charitable donation and I’m happy at that.
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Mac SE/30: “Nah mate, proper fucked sry.”Īt this point I’d like to say that the seller was a volunteer selling donated items from a charity shop, and it was clear they didn’t really know much about the machine. Matt, with strained optimism: “But maybe the logic board will be okay!” I opened up the machine, and the first small clue appeared:
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Oh, did I mention that these machines are practically guaranteed to self-destruct because either the on-board electrolytic caps ooze out gross stuff, or the on-board Varta lithium battery poos its plentiful and corrosive contents over the logic board? Getting it into the car, I noticed an OMINOUS GRITTY SLIDING SOUND. It was a good deal ( hollow laugh from future-Matt), as it came in a shoulder bag and included mouse/keyboard, an external SCSI drive and various cables. Took myself to that overpriced auction site, and bought one from a nearby seller.
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I was thinking about them at 2am (when I wasn’t stressing about things like work), planning which OSes to try out, which upgrades to make, how to network it, etc. At the time, as a kid, it was frustrating that there was no CLI, or any way to mess around and program them without expensive developer tools – so I gravitated to the Acorn Archimedes machines, and RISC OS (coincidentally with the same delicate OS drawbacks), which were much more accessible programming-wise.Īnyway, one week during one of the 2020 lockdowns I was reminded of the SE/30, and got a bit obsessed with getting hold of one. Unpopular opinion #2: I don’t really like ye olde Mac OS/System 7 either! :) It was very cool at the time, and made long-lasting innovations, but lack of memory protection or preemptive scheduling made it a little delicate. And, I needed to experience A/UX first-hand. Unlike all the other compact Macs, this one can run real operating systems like BSD, and Linux. In my book, MMUs make things interesting (as well as ‘interesting’). Look, I wouldn’t normally condone use of CISC machines (and – unpopular opinion – I’m not actually a 68K fan :D ), but not only has this machine a bunch of capability RAM-wise and CPU-wise, but this machine has an MMU. Emulating FP on a slow 68K? No! It ships with a real FPU! Limited to 4MB of RAM? Naw, this thing takes up to 128MB! It’s like a sleeper workstation, compared to the Mac Plus, SE, or Classic. The key technical difference between the SE/30 and the other compact Macs is that the SE/30 is much much less crap. Check it out, with the all-in-one-style 9” monochrome display: The beautiful Macintosh SE/30 Stay tuned for tales of debugging and its repair. This is the story of my journey to getting to the point of owning a working Mac SE/30, which turns out not to be as simple as just buying one. Released in 1989, they look quite a lot like the other members of the original “compact Mac” series, but pack in a ton of interesting features that the other compact Macs don’t have. I’ve always wanted an Apple Macintosh SE/30.