University Surplus finds

#1 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 - 22:07 68kMLA

Found an SE/30 at the university surplus today. Came with a black Apple branded canvas bag, keyboard, mouse, some original paperwork. $15!

Despite how clean it is inside (looks nearly brand-new under the slightly-yellowed covers) it seems to be suffering from some bad caps:

I should just be buying a bulk of those 16v 47mfd caps at this point.

I also managed to pick a 400MHz Pismo with the original 10GB drive and a 256MB RAM module on top of the processor card (don't know what's on the bottom ATM). It was $12 and missing the power adapter.

#2 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 - 23:09 68kMLA

Great find. Any idea what size the RAM in the SE/30 is?

#3 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 - 23:20 68kMLA

UPDATE:

I replaced three of the worst caps (I only had two of the 47mfd 16v caps around) and ITS ALIVE! It has a bone basic load of System 7.5.3 with all of the self-mounting disk images still on the original Apple 40MB hard drive. 8MB RAM installed. No PDS cards. The CRT looks brand new, there was a trace amount of dust and no corrosion inside.

This one seems to be fairly early in the production dates (the serial starts with F911 - 11th week of 1989?). I notice a number of small differences between this board and my later 1990 SE/30. For instance, this one has a socketed 68030 and a EEPROM for the video ROM.

#4 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 - 16:19 68kMLA

I also managed to pick a 400MHz Pismo with the original 10GB drive and a 256MB RAM module on top of the processor card (don't know what's on the bottom ATM). It was $12 and missing the power adapter.

the SE/30 is a nice find and the Pismo is a great bonus.

#5 Wed, 6 Jul 2011 - 17:29 68kMLA

Forgot to mention I picked up a 17" 1.6GHz iMac G5 for $20 with a bad power supply from surplus last week. I replaced the PS capacitors for under $5 and now it's running like a champ.

#6 Thu, 7 Jul 2011 - 08:19 68kMLA

Is that a socketed CPU?

#7 Thu, 7 Jul 2011 - 17:09 68kMLA

The SE/30? Yes.

The iMac G5? No.