You bubblewrap the SE/30 all around so it barely fits into a small box. You then place the box into another box half filled with peanuts or wadded paper and fill it up the rest of the way untill you can barely close the outer box. The outer box should not be too big, you just need about 3 inches of padding in between it and the smaller box holding the se/30. The whole point is to keep the computer in the center with enough padding to dissipate the shock of the post office dropping your package off the back of a truck two dozen times on the way to your house.
Two boxes is a bit more trouble and expense, but it will keep the machine in one piece unless it gets run over by something big. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Niven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vintage Macs" <vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:57 PM Subject: Re: free Mac SE (sort of) Bubble wrap - Yes! Packing Peanuts - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The peanuts just move around in the box until they end up all on one side and then the box gets dropped..... Lost an SE/30 that way, John On May 16, 2005, at 7:41 PM, Joey Sager wrote: > Man, I'd love it, but I just coaxed myself out of giving up my old Mac > SE. It's a great computer, and ran super-fast when I ran the system > off an external Zip 100 drive! > > I should recommend that you wrap the entire computer in "large" bubble > wrap and pack with bubble wrap or packing peanuts (if possible). > Remember that "ground" shipping companies like UPS won't accept a > package packed with newspapers, because it's just NEVER a good idea. > > Joe > > Doug Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I was trying to rehab my Mac SE by putting a 1.4 floppy into it >> .... but figured >> out the ROMs are too old (86 or so). In the process I went and >> dropped the >> 20 MB >> internal hard disk.... so much for those data files! >> >> anyhow, I got the data I needed off my 100 MB hard drive and have >> decided to >> give this sucker away. 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