Hi all
I know it's been a long time, but I have good news!
Believe it or not I found on leboncoin.fr, France's Craiglist, somebody selling a bunch of mac stuff: He has an illuminated dealer sign, but also a Lisa-to-Macintosh Upgrade kit, and a complete Mac 128k Picasso kit. What's even greater is that I only paid 50 euros for all of that!
The good news is that this guy also included 6 boxes of other things, including an SE/30 bezel which has become really rare (I searched and searched endlessly since july)
So, with a bit of retr0bright, it will look like new.
I think I'm going to have a look inside the hard drive before ditching it. It's a Sony 40Mb, and I think (and hope) it looks internally like a Quantum ProDrive. I saw a couple of videos on Youtube, one from you Techknight and another one from Francesco Ferretti. I think the head is stuck, I can hear the drive spin, but no head movement. But then the computer was dropped, so it's probably hopeless.
If it's really broken, I'll try at least the scsi2sd. Thanks guys for the tips
There are not so many Mac enthusiasts in France compared to the US so I don't think it will sell well with all those add ons. I'm not after the money, I just want to give the computer a new life.
But I might just go with the RAM and ROM upgrade on my own SE/30, once I get that Lapis color card working...
I'll let you know.
I know it's been a long time, but I have good news!
Believe it or not I found on leboncoin.fr, France's Craiglist, somebody selling a bunch of mac stuff: He has an illuminated dealer sign, but also a Lisa-to-Macintosh Upgrade kit, and a complete Mac 128k Picasso kit. What's even greater is that I only paid 50 euros for all of that!
The good news is that this guy also included 6 boxes of other things, including an SE/30 bezel which has become really rare (I searched and searched endlessly since july)
So, with a bit of retr0bright, it will look like new.
I think I'm going to have a look inside the hard drive before ditching it. It's a Sony 40Mb, and I think (and hope) it looks internally like a Quantum ProDrive. I saw a couple of videos on Youtube, one from you Techknight and another one from Francesco Ferretti. I think the head is stuck, I can hear the drive spin, but no head movement. But then the computer was dropped, so it's probably hopeless.
If it's really broken, I'll try at least the scsi2sd. Thanks guys for the tips
There are not so many Mac enthusiasts in France compared to the US so I don't think it will sell well with all those add ons. I'm not after the money, I just want to give the computer a new life.
But I might just go with the RAM and ROM upgrade on my own SE/30, once I get that Lapis color card working...
I'll let you know.