OK, probably the following Saturday would be best for me (the 18th) as I have stuff planned for the 11th.
This gives me some time to repair the SE/30s!
Speaking of which, I opened up the one with the plain SE front (with "/30" sharpie-d on), and I found a battery explosion in progress! The battery holder is a loss, and it took with it some sort of surface mount transistor and a capacitor, but the rest of the board appears to be intact, thankfully (aside from normal cap-induced corrosion and such, of course). It also appears to have at least 16 MB of RAM, and a funny looking ROM SIMM I haven't seen in an SE/30 before. Do you think it's had its 32-bitness cleaned up?
Also, if you can offer some advice re: 400k floppy drives, that would be good, as I have one (from the 512k) whose disk-inserted sensor isn't actuating properly. When I press it down manually, the drive works fine (it boots up and everything), but it seems like the disk itself should be actuating it. Instead, the little pin it slides on seems to be interfering with the disk pushing it in.
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This gives me some time to repair the SE/30s!
Speaking of which, I opened up the one with the plain SE front (with "/30" sharpie-d on), and I found a battery explosion in progress! The battery holder is a loss, and it took with it some sort of surface mount transistor and a capacitor, but the rest of the board appears to be intact, thankfully (aside from normal cap-induced corrosion and such, of course). It also appears to have at least 16 MB of RAM, and a funny looking ROM SIMM I haven't seen in an SE/30 before. Do you think it's had its 32-bitness cleaned up?
Also, if you can offer some advice re: 400k floppy drives, that would be good, as I have one (from the 512k) whose disk-inserted sensor isn't actuating properly. When I press it down manually, the drive works fine (it boots up and everything), but it seems like the disk itself should be actuating it. Instead, the little pin it slides on seems to be interfering with the disk pushing it in.
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