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Got another clean SE/30 up and running.
I picked up a really nice SE/30 last week and got it up and running. Honestly, it didn't take much, as it was in great shape.
I bought it from the original owner (bought new in 1990) for $40 shipped. Seemed like a fair price.
It has 8mb of RAM and the original 40MB hard drive. The speaker volume seems a little weak, so I'll have to look into that, but otherwise, it's really clean.
I bought it from the original owner (bought new in 1990) for $40 shipped. Seemed like a fair price.
It has 8mb of RAM and the original 40MB hard drive. The speaker volume seems a little weak, so I'll have to look into that, but otherwise, it's really clean.
Ooo, awesome! Not a bad price for a fully-functional SE/30.
Sounds like a good deal. The weak volume is a problem that plagues many SE/30s these days, it is due to degredation of the capacitors on the motherboard. Both of my SE/30s have this problem, one quite a bit more than the other. There are various threads on these forums discussing repairs for these problems and even someone who is advertising replacement capacitor kits. If you fancy a bit of an electronic challenge the you could replace some of the caps, though if it is working alright at the moment I would just leave it be.
Agreed. For now, I'll leave this one running as is. This is actually my 3rd SE/30. I have one that pretty yellowed, but in god working condition that has an Xceed card an an accelerator in it and I also have one that's pretty beat-up that I may experiment with. It also has the volume problem as well as a flaky analog board. I may see about re-capping the logic board in this beat-up one as a test before working the other 2.
The new clean one will be set up in my office along with the Mac Plus I've been cleaning up.
The new clean one will be set up in my office along with the Mac Plus I've been cleaning up.