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Space Rogue Mar 21, 2025

I am way more excited about these now that I have them home, very glad I didn’t balk at what I thought was a high, but was actually a low price. My old SE, later upgraded to an SE/30, was really my first computer. Feels so good to have one again. These are supposed to both work. I will crack them open later today and check on the batteries. #MacSE #retrocomputing

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Space Rogue Mar 21, 2025

I cracked the SE. The case is a little marred so someone has been in here before and there was one screw missing. But the battery has not leaked yet! Date on the hard drive is from 1988! Not to dusty inside either. Will blow it out and give it a quick power on to test it. #macSE #retrocomputing

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Space Rogue Mar 21, 2025

The hard drive might be bad and I don’t have any floppies to test with but the fact that it gets this far and seems to be all original is pretty amazing. #MacSE #retrocomputing #retromac

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Tom Sheppard has moved

@spacerog Is it spinning up? If not, a drive that old may be experiencing “stiction”. Turn the computer off and back on. As soon as you turn it on when the motor torque is high, tap the case edge on to the drive, perpendicular to the drive connector. Successively harder taps may be required to break the stiction.