As a brand new subscriber (arrived yesterday), I have to say how impressed I am with the calm, reasoned approach taken by many of your ListMoms (new to this, and probably getting the terminology mixed up) and other corespondents to some of the rantings that pass for cries for help.
This has prompted me to bring forward my attempts to get info on my SE30. I had meant to look and read for a while before jumping in, but as you seem so ready to forgive... The first Mac I bought was an SE30. Though I had very little computing experience (I suppose most of us were in the same boat back then), having only worked with a CPM machine and a Mac Plus, I was immediately impressed with the machine. And of course, like so many others, I still am. I passed it on to my wife as time went by, and she ran her business on it for years, but it did begin to get a bit quirky... funny screen patterns on start-up, which might (or might not) resolve to a nice grey and a smiley-face given time. Eventually it retreated to a new home in the dark recesses of a blanket cupboard, where I came upon it the other day. As I looked at it anew, I realised that I couldn't just send it off to a junk table at the local fete: such a good servant deserves better than that. Here are the problems that I know about: yes, it sometimes starts up with a fine patchwork pattern, one vertical section of the screen exhibiting a similar but different pattern. It usually changes to a nice grey and the disk with a ?. This suggests to me that the hard disk is either dead or unrecognised (I think I put a second-hand 8 OMB hard disk from a IIFX in it many years ago). If I put the OS 6 install disk in, it changes to smiley-face for a second then reverts to disk & X. If I put the OS 7.1 Install disk in, it begins to start up then freezes about half-way through the startup. So, how about some general hints as to how to approach the resuscitation? I have a couple of hard drives (an 8o mb and a 500Mb which I rescued from the dead IIFX). I'm fairly handy in a general sense, and can sort of solder a bit, but have no real experience working on fine stuff like circuit boards ( though I did once fix a broken tape-recorder using a heated nail held in a pair of pliers!). I'd love to learn to do these things: clearly, there is a heap of old gear about that is too good to simply ditch. Hope I haven't broken too many conventions, nor jeers of derision. Thanks, Michel Michel Dignand, Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute Private Mail Bag Pine Gully Road Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 02 69381994 Fax: 02 6938 1995 ------------------------------ Home: 108 MacLeay Street Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Telephone: 02 6925 6456 Fax: 02 6925 2080 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... SPECIAL LIST PRICES - Replacement Apple CDROMs from $19.99, MacOS 8.5 CD $79.99 PPC 5400/200Mhz 16/1.6GB/CD/ENET/L2 $119, 5+ for $99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
