great find....reminds me of my SE/30, which I found on trash day, sitting sadly on the grass, near the trash can...rescued it, minutes, before the city trash truck, would have swoop it up, for the local landfill...Something caught my eye near some bins today and on closer inspection I discovered that the bit of "platinum" coloured plastic that I had spotted from a distance was in fact a very neglected looking SE/30. I promptly rescued it and a few minutes ago, (after opening the case and checking everything was dry), I powered it on. It seems to work fine and has 8MB RAM and a 40MB hard drive. The extra bonus is that there is an ethernet card in it with RJ-45, thin coax and AUI connectors!
There is quite a bit of rust on the steel frame inside and on the external connectors and the floppy drive mechanism looks corroded. I think this must have been sitting outdoors in the damp for some time. Hopefully a bit of a clean up will do it wonders as the machine on the whole is in good working order. The CRT is burnt in but still gives a bright and sharp picture. Also, this SE/30 produces a good sound volume from it's speaker unlike my other SE/30 that had suffered capacitor leakage and has almost lost it's sound. Maybe I will use both of them to put together a fully working SE/30 system, depending on whether I find any problems with this new one.
And yes, pictures:
(front)
(back)
anyhow, mine was clean inside...and the tube did have severe burn in, but I ended up using another se/30, for parts, and crt tube, and installed a
500 mb hd, with 7.5.5. the rest of the donor SE/30, was used for
parts, the the case (yellowed) ended up as a fish tank..
go figure...the trash day S/30, had a clean case, hardly el-zippo yellowing.
where, my former SE/30, suffered from the dreaded yellowing..
heck, any time you can find one, or a SE with superdrive, in the trash,
(etc) is a gooood day.....as the years go by, compact macs, are getting harder to come by.......