Well, I broke down and bought both, I also picked up a copy of sytem 6.0.2 still in shrinkwrap.

I cracked both apart... I get the SimasiMac herringbone pattern at startup with the SE/30 with the rom, and without the rom, with the ram, and without the ram, with the nic, and without the nic, and every possible itineration in between.

So I threw the damn thing in the dishwasher, we'll see how it comes out after it dries.

I do have a 603e board that was intended for a color classic. and a color classic monitor. I may just end up building an Color SE/233. We'll see how things go.

Once opened, I found that this mac wasn't very well taken care of, the HD was mounted via one screw, on a tilt, and too far back.

All sorts on interesting tools on the SE's HD though, startup sound changer, resedit, amoung other things... The system was running 7.5. And is loaded to the gills with 128 mb ram. I'll bet this system hauled when it was running.

On a happier side note, I got my 3400c online today for the first time.

-Patrick