@vampiress thanks you've cheered me up knowing that 😊
From what I've read and watched, it looks like the SE machines are pretty robust, capacitors aside, so hopefully yours will last for ages. I think mine had been very heavily used during its lifetime, so perhaps it was an inevitable exception.
@vampiress The retro/collector market pays a lot of money for working vintage Mac hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if you could collect over $500 for that SE in working condition with keyboard and mouse. Models like the colour classic can pick up four digits in shiny condition.
From time to time this bugs me, because I gave away / ewasted a lot of old computer gear years ago before the collector market went crazy and now all those 486 motherboards are suddenly worth something. The perils of not being a hoarder.
@vampiress I've always leant the same way -- if I have compute I don't want, I'll try to just rehome it rather than trying to polish it up and sell it on.
A few moves ago I did a big cleanout of hardware -- about two cubic metres on the street for council ewaste collection. Amazing how many people turned up quickly to dig through it until a fire truck turned up and hosed it all down.
@vampiress I'm just hoping someone wants to get rid of a Quadra on the A/UX supported list. About the only Mac hardware that would really appeal is the stuff that could be made as un-Maccy as possible.
I ran OpenBSD on a G3 iMac for years as a media player, mostly just to be stubborn.
Aah, collector culture. Even serial terminals seem to be worth fat cash these days and I remember watching skips fill up with Wyse terms with no love.
@vampiress Replacing the PRAM battery before it explodes was a good first step (those things make an amazing mess). I forget if the SEs also have electrolytic caps that would do severe damage if they leak due to heat/age/etc (as many later 80s/90s Macs do), but if so replacing them is probably a priority to avoid potential disaster.
@vampiress There are accelerators but they often break games. Ethernet card? Not much point if you get a bluescsi and do wifi. External monitor? SE/30 a better base — you can get one of the double adaptor cards for the PDS slot and do truly dumb stuff to it.
@vampiress I'm fairly unfamiliar with this era of macs (I had an Amiga 500, and switched to DOS PCs soon after), but it's there something like a PiStorm for it, like you have for Amigas?
@vampiress I was at Syduni in early 90s and the dept of education (the old teacher’s college) replaced a bunch of all in one macs. I got a Mac plus for $50, my first Mac. Don’t know if yours came from the same source.