The Mac Cracker, LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING ! You can also use a Torx 10 driver, because the hole in the screws are tapered. Sometimes a Torx 15 driver is too tight.
I didn't know the SE/30 came with an FPU. Neither did I expect it to be soldered to the board. But I do know this is the smallest Macintosh which can run A/UX.
The Governor's School I attended had a bunch of SE's in their computer lab at the time. I always wished they were SE/30's after hearing from a friend that actually had one at the time how great of a little Mac the SE/30 was. Maybe someday I'll have an SE/30 as one of the computers I've always wanted to use but have yet to get the opportunity to do so!
It seems the SE/30 is the most desirable compact black and white Macintosh, however most of the units I've come across have had major capacitor leakage or battery bomb damage.
@@geekwithsocialskills I've noticed that, too, and am unsure if it's because of the non-user-servicable nature of the SE/30 (so normal users didn't feel comfortable removing the battery before storing the Mac, or didn't realize there was a PRAM bettery inside that needed removing), and/or because Apple switched battery suppliers around the time of the SE/30 to batteries that were more prone to leaking. So while I'd love to have an SE/30, I suspect I'll add an SE to my collection sooner because they seem to be more commonly available in less affected conditions. And because the people that really want an SE/30 don't bid on SE's. And as for the capacitor leakage, that's common among all the Macs at the time. No doubt Apple was using common suppliers among their entire product line. Every Mac I've bought from the time period has needed at least the logic board recapped due to obvious electrolyte leakage.
Thank you for your kind words! I'm happy my video introduced you to the ROM-inator. It's a pretty cool modern day piece of Macintosh hardware for sure!
I have plenty of batteries. I keep them out of the machines until I'm going to be using them for a while, then remove them again. As mentioned I do need to resave settings, but that's ok and very easy to do.
You can only have one floppy drive with a hard drive installed unless you have the special drive caddy that can accomodate two floppy drives and a hard drive.
Sweet! Timing was right for me to hit this one. Last night, Thomas at Amiga of Rochester contacted me letting me know that me Classic II and SE/30 logic boards are recapped and cleaned and ready to go. Historically, I have been using the SCSI2SD devices (and love them), but I've heard a lot of good things about the BlueSCSI. Since I now have nine different original compact Macs, I'm wondering if I should invest in a few BluesSCSIs since I hear it's easy to build disk images for them? I need to get a variety of MacOS images built for the different machines I have.
SCSI2SD's are great, however expensive compared to BlueSCSI's. You can get 3-4 BlueSCSI units for the same price as 1 SCSI2SD. I've used both and can say either way you go, both are good products. As for building disk images for the BlueSCSI, it's not hard, but not super easy either LOL. I'm not a huge Mac person, more of a C64 and Apple II guy, so it takes me a little more work to make them. Of course YMMV.
@@geekwithsocialskills I think I'll give the BlueSCSI a try as well. One of the problems I have encountered is working mainly with 800k original Macs limiting the images I had available to read on my FloppyEmus. I don't have my Mac IIs setup at the moment. It's hard getting media to go among all the machines. Now that I have some Color Classics, one with a NIC, no working hard disks, and no external floppy connector, I need a machine to where I can make some appropriate installation media, etc.... you know what I mean LOL. The SE/30 will be a good intermediary device between 800k and 1.44MB file formats with an external floppy port to boot. If I can BUILD an image on a modern Mac to go in a BlueSCSI.... /end A.D.H.D. thinking aloud process ;)
I would suggest buying an external BlueSCSI first, that way you can easily swap between machines with it using the external SCSI port. The FloppyEMU is also awesome. I have one and use it a lot between my machines. I also have a CFFA3000 that I got back in 2013 or 2014 that I use with my Apple IIe. Apparently those are being re-made now by a different person under license. Oh, and there is something else for Apple II machines called a BOOTI card. Those are great, but sell out very quickly and only show up a couple times a year and now with supply chain issues on IC's, it's even harder to get one.
@@geekwithsocialskills Yeah, I'm probably going to do that. For a "finished product", I do prefer something internal so the system looks stock, but having something external to swap among machines and to get several up and going is super worth it. Once I "finish" these compact Macs, I want to look back at some of that for my IIe and IIgs. I'd love some kind of fixed disk solution for them.... same for my A500.... and for the A1000 once I find a keyboard.... and on and on and on and on and on ROFL.
The Mac Cracker, LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING ! You can also use a Torx 10 driver, because the hole in the screws are tapered. Sometimes a Torx 15 driver is too tight.
Indeed, look at the size of that thing LOL!
I didn't know the SE/30 came with an FPU. Neither did I expect it to be soldered to the board. But I do know this is the smallest Macintosh which can run A/UX.
Indeed the SE/30 comes with an FPU. IIRC it's a Motorola 68882.
The Governor's School I attended had a bunch of SE's in their computer lab at the time. I always wished they were SE/30's after hearing from a friend that actually had one at the time how great of a little Mac the SE/30 was. Maybe someday I'll have an SE/30 as one of the computers I've always wanted to use but have yet to get the opportunity to do so!
It seems the SE/30 is the most desirable compact black and white Macintosh, however most of the units I've come across have had major capacitor leakage or battery bomb damage.
@@geekwithsocialskills I've noticed that, too, and am unsure if it's because of the non-user-servicable nature of the SE/30 (so normal users didn't feel comfortable removing the battery before storing the Mac, or didn't realize there was a PRAM bettery inside that needed removing), and/or because Apple switched battery suppliers around the time of the SE/30 to batteries that were more prone to leaking.
So while I'd love to have an SE/30, I suspect I'll add an SE to my collection sooner because they seem to be more commonly available in less affected conditions. And because the people that really want an SE/30 don't bid on SE's.
And as for the capacitor leakage, that's common among all the Macs at the time. No doubt Apple was using common suppliers among their entire product line. Every Mac I've bought from the time period has needed at least the logic board recapped due to obvious electrolyte leakage.
That’s really cool! I had never heard of the ROM-inator before this video.
Thank you for your kind words! I'm happy my video introduced you to the ROM-inator. It's a pretty cool modern day piece of Macintosh hardware for sure!
This is almost exactly what I'm getting into this year, geek!
The SE/30 is the black and white Mac that everyone wants, so a great choice for you.
Hey, pretty much exactly what I'm doing! Just waiting for the mobo to come back from recapping
Very nice! You'll love using the SE/30.
@@geekwithsocialskills No doubt - I grew up with one. It's how I learned how to read, write and where my career started ❤️
That's awesome! Thank you for sharing your backstory.
Dont lose your battery. If you BMOW and use mode32 you need the battery to save settings.
I have plenty of batteries. I keep them out of the machines until I'm going to be using them for a while, then remove them again. As mentioned I do need to resave settings, but that's ok and very easy to do.
Excellent work and video!! I was planning to do the same work on my machine. You make it look so easy!
Thanks Rudy! Much appreciated! You should totally do a stealth SE/30 build. I highly recommend it :-)
You could install a second disk drive.
You can only have one floppy drive with a hard drive installed unless you have the special drive caddy that can accomodate two floppy drives and a hard drive.
Sweet! Timing was right for me to hit this one. Last night, Thomas at Amiga of Rochester contacted me letting me know that me Classic II and SE/30 logic boards are recapped and cleaned and ready to go. Historically, I have been using the SCSI2SD devices (and love them), but I've heard a lot of good things about the BlueSCSI. Since I now have nine different original compact Macs, I'm wondering if I should invest in a few BluesSCSIs since I hear it's easy to build disk images for them? I need to get a variety of MacOS images built for the different machines I have.
SCSI2SD's are great, however expensive compared to BlueSCSI's. You can get 3-4 BlueSCSI units for the same price as 1 SCSI2SD. I've used both and can say either way you go, both are good products. As for building disk images for the BlueSCSI, it's not hard, but not super easy either LOL. I'm not a huge Mac person, more of a C64 and Apple II guy, so it takes me a little more work to make them. Of course YMMV.
@@geekwithsocialskills I think I'll give the BlueSCSI a try as well. One of the problems I have encountered is working mainly with 800k original Macs limiting the images I had available to read on my FloppyEmus. I don't have my Mac IIs setup at the moment. It's hard getting media to go among all the machines. Now that I have some Color Classics, one with a NIC, no working hard disks, and no external floppy connector, I need a machine to where I can make some appropriate installation media, etc.... you know what I mean LOL. The SE/30 will be a good intermediary device between 800k and 1.44MB file formats with an external floppy port to boot. If I can BUILD an image on a modern Mac to go in a BlueSCSI.... /end A.D.H.D. thinking aloud process ;)
I would suggest buying an external BlueSCSI first, that way you can easily swap between machines with it using the external SCSI port. The FloppyEMU is also awesome. I have one and use it a lot between my machines. I also have a CFFA3000 that I got back in 2013 or 2014 that I use with my Apple IIe. Apparently those are being re-made now by a different person under license. Oh, and there is something else for Apple II machines called a BOOTI card. Those are great, but sell out very quickly and only show up a couple times a year and now with supply chain issues on IC's, it's even harder to get one.
@@geekwithsocialskills Yeah, I'm probably going to do that. For a "finished product", I do prefer something internal so the system looks stock, but having something external to swap among machines and to get several up and going is super worth it. Once I "finish" these compact Macs, I want to look back at some of that for my IIe and IIgs. I'd love some kind of fixed disk solution for them.... same for my A500.... and for the A1000 once I find a keyboard.... and on and on and on and on and on ROFL.
Good
Thanks!
Did you ever install 7.6.1 on your se/30? Would you now be able to - now that you have a "clean" rom?
Nope, I just left it with System Software 7.5.5 installed.