Hello there!

This is my first post and I'm proud to be joining the 68k Mac Liberation Army with my first 68k conquest (but not my first Mac at all ).

Last sunday, I bought a Macintosh SE/30 from someone through a classifieds website for 40€ (~$55 I guess).

It was owned by a man who passed away recently and sold by his two daughters who didn't know much about it.

So I went to their home to test it and it did boot up without a problem (only had to tune the brightness knob to be able to see it did boot up).

I got the keyboard, the mouse, a spare localtalk cable and the plastic accessory for reboot and debug, but no floppies with it.

It has 8 MB of RAM, a huge hard drive (40 MB) on which the following software are installed:

• System 7.0.1
• Microsoft Word 5.0
• Microsoft Excel 4.0
• Claris MacPaint 2.0
• Norton
• A few games

I have no way to communicate with it right now since it has no Ethernet card (and even no PDS card). I'm thinking of buying a SCSI Zip 100 drive (or maybe use my father's if he can find it) and buying another USB Zip 100 drive (to use on an Al PowerBook G4 running 10.4 or 10.5) plus a few disks so that I can install System 6.0.8 on one Zip, System 7 on another and System 7.5.5 on a last one (at least and maybe A/UX too). Do you think it's a good idea?

I think I will have to change the capacitors on the motherboard since the sound is really muted (I can barely hear it at max volume) and I'm planning on avoiding to use it until I find some time to assess the motherboard condition.

Thank you for reading

PS: This post was typed on the mentioned Al PowerBook G4 which has the following characteristics:

• G4 1,33 GHz
• Radeon Mobility 9600 with 64 MB VRAM
• 1.5 GB RAM
• 120 GB Crucial mSATA SSD connected through an IDE to mSATA adapter
• Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 installed

PPS: English is not my native language so please forgive any mistakes