Well its about time I start on this one. I have a dual floppy TEMPEST SE. The fact that its dual floppy seems rather odd to me. While I may be able to add a hard drive, it would not be proper without the right hardware for the cabling, etc. So I will restore this back to the way it was built.

One problem I have is the motherboard. It does not work and boots to thick jail bars with 10 seconds of crackling noise thru the speaker. While I have never had an SE board with bad caps, its my only suspect so far. I've swapped RAM/ROMs, etc. A regular SE board works fine in its place. But there are a few minor modifications to the board that I am not sure about. I will put those pics in the next post.

Here a couple pics as I start my overhaul.