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Introducing Myself
I recently joined this forum because my SE/30 needed to be recapped, and Google sent me here. After signing up, I got in touch with a gentleman who was able to put new caps on my board in a very timely manner, and now my SE/30 is working once again. This evening, I even used iCab to get online with it. :beige:
I got into compact Macs around 2001 or so. A guy from work needed a cheap printer and I had one. He offered me an SE and a 512ke in trade. I ended up getting a few more SEs and a Plus or two before I bought this SE/30 off eBay about 10 years ago. I added a bit of RAM (it has 20M now), an Asante ethernet card, and an external 20SC hard drive case with a 1G drive in it. The hard drive case elevated the machine to a more comfortable viewing level.
About the time I got the SE/30, I found a 200M Syquest drive at our local Goodwill for $2. When I was using this machine regularly (2002-2003 or so), I've had the Syquest drive, a Zip drive, a CD-ROM, the external HD, and a Syquest EZDrive hooked up to it at various times. Other things I have (or had) hooked up to it are an ALPS Glidepoint trackpad and a Power ON (? turns the computer on by pressing the power button on the keyboard) power strip.
Currently, it has a newly recapped motherboard, with 20M of RAM, an Asante ethernet card, and a 1G internal hard drive. (I bought a new desk at some point and don't need the extra height of the HD case any longer) I'm using a design keyboard, and the Glidepoint trackpad, along with that Power On thing. I have an external Syquest 200Meg cartridge drive for backups and a ton of stuff I don't need clogging up the HD. I'm running System 7.1 with quite a few extras from 7.5, though I do have System Picker on the drive with systems 6.0.8, 7.0, and 7.5.3 on the machine.
My plans are to add my G4 or possibly a G3 B and W to the network to use a games machine for our daughter, and a means to get this machine onto the network. Our other Macs (a mini and a Macbook Pro) are too new to run 10.3.9, which I believe is the newest OS that Sharepoints will run on.
Anyhow, this is getting a bit wordy. I look forward to learning about what's been happening with Compact Macs in the last decade and picking up where I left off.
J White
I got into compact Macs around 2001 or so. A guy from work needed a cheap printer and I had one. He offered me an SE and a 512ke in trade. I ended up getting a few more SEs and a Plus or two before I bought this SE/30 off eBay about 10 years ago. I added a bit of RAM (it has 20M now), an Asante ethernet card, and an external 20SC hard drive case with a 1G drive in it. The hard drive case elevated the machine to a more comfortable viewing level.
About the time I got the SE/30, I found a 200M Syquest drive at our local Goodwill for $2. When I was using this machine regularly (2002-2003 or so), I've had the Syquest drive, a Zip drive, a CD-ROM, the external HD, and a Syquest EZDrive hooked up to it at various times. Other things I have (or had) hooked up to it are an ALPS Glidepoint trackpad and a Power ON (? turns the computer on by pressing the power button on the keyboard) power strip.
Currently, it has a newly recapped motherboard, with 20M of RAM, an Asante ethernet card, and a 1G internal hard drive. (I bought a new desk at some point and don't need the extra height of the HD case any longer) I'm using a design keyboard, and the Glidepoint trackpad, along with that Power On thing. I have an external Syquest 200Meg cartridge drive for backups and a ton of stuff I don't need clogging up the HD. I'm running System 7.1 with quite a few extras from 7.5, though I do have System Picker on the drive with systems 6.0.8, 7.0, and 7.5.3 on the machine.
My plans are to add my G4 or possibly a G3 B and W to the network to use a games machine for our daughter, and a means to get this machine onto the network. Our other Macs (a mini and a Macbook Pro) are too new to run 10.3.9, which I believe is the newest OS that Sharepoints will run on.
Anyhow, this is getting a bit wordy. I look forward to learning about what's been happening with Compact Macs in the last decade and picking up where I left off.
J White
Your SE/30 LB turned out fantastic!
glad i could help!
glad i could help!
Welcome aboard. It's always nice to hear about older machines being folded into more current setups, especially when done so for the kids.
I'd say "useable" viewing angle, without a tilted plexi stand or ZFP, there wasn't anything I'd call comfortable about the height of the Mac's display.
Welcome to the group!!