For my second entry in #marchintosh is this #spicyPillow in a 2012 Mac Pro. IIRC I picked this up at #EFM #electronicsFleaMarket on the cheap, fully intended for a project but was packed up from the move. Unpacked the box this weekend, and noted the lid being pushed out – and upon opening noted the touchpad broken in half.

I opened it up & pulled out the spicy pillow, installing a spare battery I had on hand. Connected power, and it booted! The touchpad works, but to click/double click you have to push down to make the touchpad level while clicking/double clicking. Time to find a replacement touchpad, and when I do then also max out the RAM while installing an SSD.

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Me on my family’s first computer, around 1993-1994. Macintosh LC 475 with AppleCD 300e, SupraFAXModem 14400, Gravis MouseStick II. Not pictured, we also had a StyleWriter II.

I was playing a flight simulator. I can’t tell from the photo, but it was either Hellcats over the Pacific or F/A-18 Hornet by Graphic Simulations.

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I swear, every time I watch a video about restoring an SE/30...

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I've also:

*an SE, which just needs something to boot from, and an Asanté ethernet card to install into it. Great video.

*a Plus, with good boot beep, but needs boot media. Good video.

*A Classis that's... Dead? The power supply could just be dead.

*And this Classic II with a good beep, and then jailhouse bars. Gonna have to look that problem up...

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I did a quick inventory.
I have three SE/30s.

This one boots. Even gives me a smiley Mac with a boot floppy in, but then spits it out. No shakey screens or other video flaws.

Another has no motherboard, but looks good otherwise, and one is UGLY, but has 17MB of good looking SIMMs.

So this one is going to need a good cleaning, and is a good candidate for getting up and running.

Now where is my SCSI>Ethernet device...

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Finally got my #macintosh performa 6200 to run. Reason was a faulty Cache/ROM-DIMM that I replaced with another faulty DIMM. The third one is working 😀 #retro #retrocomputing #retromacintosh #performa6200
Eventually switched the harddrive of my #PowerBook with a #blueSCSI and finally have another working #macintosh again! 😀💻 #retrocomputing #retromacintosh #PowerBook145B