For long term care:
1) REPLACE THAT BATTERY!
Then
2) Get the board Recapped. Uniserver does an excellent job on doing this. He will also check out the board for intermittent problems and fixes them along the way so when you get your board, it will be problem free. PM/Talk to him about it.
3) Get your Analog Board and Power Supply Recapped and weak parts replaced. And get spare parts like T1- the Fly back transformer and assorted diodes and things. Again, Uniserver, but a few others also do this and sell parts.
Get Dead Mac Scrolls. It is helpful on basic repairs and what to expect.
4) Take part the Floppy Drive, clean it up good with a de-greaser like Naptha. Then regrease the moving parts with White Lithium Grease.
5) Get an SSD like SCSI2CF or SCSI2SD and transfer your Hard Drive to it. You can put the hard drive in an external enclosure and use it while it is still alive, but the SSD will last longer.
Its best to keep it on System 6, as it will run slow under System 7. But you can do a lot with System 6 on an SE.
Eventually you will want more out of your SE but until then, have fun with it. For more:
6) Find an accelerator for the SE, either an '020 or '030 accelerator. One where you can add RAM to it, and then run System 7 on it.
7) like in Step 3 - get spare parts. Just in case, get a CRT now as they will disappear after a while. They are no longer made. And until somebody makes an LCD Screen to put on the SE, we're stuck with the few CRTs out there.
Have fun! You will enjoy it!
1) REPLACE THAT BATTERY!
Then
2) Get the board Recapped. Uniserver does an excellent job on doing this. He will also check out the board for intermittent problems and fixes them along the way so when you get your board, it will be problem free. PM/Talk to him about it.
3) Get your Analog Board and Power Supply Recapped and weak parts replaced. And get spare parts like T1- the Fly back transformer and assorted diodes and things. Again, Uniserver, but a few others also do this and sell parts.
Get Dead Mac Scrolls. It is helpful on basic repairs and what to expect.
4) Take part the Floppy Drive, clean it up good with a de-greaser like Naptha. Then regrease the moving parts with White Lithium Grease.
5) Get an SSD like SCSI2CF or SCSI2SD and transfer your Hard Drive to it. You can put the hard drive in an external enclosure and use it while it is still alive, but the SSD will last longer.
Its best to keep it on System 6, as it will run slow under System 7. But you can do a lot with System 6 on an SE.
Eventually you will want more out of your SE but until then, have fun with it. For more:
6) Find an accelerator for the SE, either an '020 or '030 accelerator. One where you can add RAM to it, and then run System 7 on it.
7) like in Step 3 - get spare parts. Just in case, get a CRT now as they will disappear after a while. They are no longer made. And until somebody makes an LCD Screen to put on the SE, we're stuck with the few CRTs out there.
Have fun! You will enjoy it!