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Found SE/30 can it be fixed?

Lord Moz said:
Well, there are ways of bridging the built in LocalTalk serial ports to Ethernet, but that will be seriously slow (~230Kbps). The better way would be actual Ethernet, but the Ethernet cards for these machine are pretty rare, and often go for significant fractions the price of the machines themselves on ebay, sometimes over half.

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Trevor
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Are they different from other NuBus cards? I have one... can't remember if it came out of a compact mac or a performa of some sort.
 
Lord Moz said:
The better way would be actual Ethernet, but the Ethernet cards for these machine are pretty rare, and often go for significant fractions the price of the machines themselves on ebay, sometimes over half.
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Interesting.

I have a dead SE which has a Ethernet connector. I must make sure to remove it before I junk the unit.

Tez
 
I have *TONS* of early Mac SCSI->Ethernet cards and adapters and bridges and such, but no functional early Macs (except my OS8 system and OS6 systems, both of which I don't understand well enough to do anything with), so I'd easily consider selling them for relatively cheap. I tried to get many of the various devices to work, most are Asante brand, but there's one EN/SC10 I didn't get to try yet. I'm a Mac noob though, so it's undeniably my fault - because these were all BRAND NEW, but I opened most of them.

I also have what I believe is an ethernet card for a Mac SE, but I don't know mac ports too well. I should be getting a Mac SE sometime soon, but if you offer a decent price I'll sell that (after taking picture and letting everybody confirm it'd work for that, ofc).

(PM me if I don't respond to responses here)
 
Raven said:
I have *TONS* of early Mac SCSI->Ethernet cards and adapters and bridges and such, but no functional early Macs (except my OS8 system and OS6 systems, both of which I don't understand well enough to do anything with), so I'd easily consider selling them for relatively cheap. I tried to get many of the various devices to work, most are Asante brand, but there's one EN/SC10 I didn't get to try yet. I'm a Mac noob though, so it's undeniably my fault - because these were all BRAND NEW, but I opened most of them.

I also have what I believe is an ethernet card for a Mac SE, but I don't know mac ports too well. I should be getting a Mac SE sometime soon, but if you offer a decent price I'll sell that (after taking picture and letting everybody confirm it'd work for that, ofc).

(PM me if I don't respond to responses here)
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Sent you a PM... Let me know what you have, and if it is verified working or not.

Also to everyone. For a replacement hard drive, From what I have read any 50 pin SCSI drive will work, but are there size limits?
 
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I have lots of SCSI drives too, btw.. external and internal, for Mac (but would work on either). Also have an external SCSI CDROM and some internal ones.

Also, I cleared out some messages - been having a real problem with that lately.
 
Does the HD sound like it's spinning, or spinning slowly? There was an issue many years ago with the HD's having too heavy of a grease on the bearings ( or something like that ) which would cause the HD's not to spin. I think the fix was a ROM chip upgrade.

Anyway, if the drive is not spinning, Here is the "Apple" recommended solution. ( as best from memory as possible )

Remove the drive from the SE/30
Hold the sides of the drive with one hand parallel to the floor the circuit side down
Now TWIST several times.
Reinstall drive & test


Frozen001 said:
OK, So I opened up the case, and found a simm was loose. So I pulled out the motherboard, and reseated the simm, and put it back together. I turn it on, and now I get a screen with an image of a floppy in the middle with a blinking question mark. I assume this is because it needs a boot disk since the either the hard drive is shot, or just needs a reformating. Now moving forward. I do not have any other Mac's and I know I can download os's from apple, but how do I make the floppy disks. Is if possible from an XP machine? Also I do not have a keyboard or mouse. I assue any apple keyboard and mouse will work?
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Got a keyboard and mouse for it yesterday and able to play around with it. It appears to hve once had an external Ethernet card hooked to the scsi port. It currently has system 7. 0.something and the hard drive is 80mb. Not much on it it has ms office 6 on it. Have yet to try the floppy drive.
 
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