My Dad picked up an SE when they were new. He used it for years, but when work went PC-only, the SE sort of slipped out of usage and at some point ended up in the garage. My parents moved to the West coast in 2000. (I live on the East coast.) So I thought that I'd never see that SE again.
My parents were here last week on vacation so my Dad finally dug it out of the garage and brought it to me. It was still in the Apple canvas carrying bag. Despite that, it's pretty dirty. It must have been sitting around for a few yeas before it ended up back in the bag.
The 20MB hard drive was also dead. I found a spare 700MB drive on my parts shelf so I threw it in and gave it a fresh install of 6.0.8. This is my second SE. My other SE has a maxed 4MB of RAM and and Ethernet card, but I think I'll hold a special place in my heart for this guy since it did belong to my Dad and it's the only surviving Mac left from my childhood.
Once cool thing is that he also had a 3rd party floppy drive that he forgot he even had. That was a nice bonus.
Everything appears to work great. It just needs a good cleaning and a little retr0brite action.
My parents were here last week on vacation so my Dad finally dug it out of the garage and brought it to me. It was still in the Apple canvas carrying bag. Despite that, it's pretty dirty. It must have been sitting around for a few yeas before it ended up back in the bag.
The 20MB hard drive was also dead. I found a spare 700MB drive on my parts shelf so I threw it in and gave it a fresh install of 6.0.8. This is my second SE. My other SE has a maxed 4MB of RAM and and Ethernet card, but I think I'll hold a special place in my heart for this guy since it did belong to my Dad and it's the only surviving Mac left from my childhood.
Once cool thing is that he also had a 3rd party floppy drive that he forgot he even had. That was a nice bonus.
Everything appears to work great. It just needs a good cleaning and a little retr0brite action.