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My Mac SE/30 Part VI: SCSI2SD Installation

June 11, 2021Hardware1 Comment

In Part V of this series I upgraded the RAM and ROM in the vintage Macintosh SE/30 that I’ve been restoring. In this post, I replace the old dead hard drive with a modern SCSI2SD. As mentioned in Part II, the hard drive that came in this machine was a 426 MB Segate ST1480N, an…

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My Mac SE/30 Part IV: Upgrade Plans

April 29, 2021May 14, 2021Hardware1 Comment

In Part III of this series I took out (and cleaned) the motherboard and disk drives of my Macintosh SE/30. At that point, I was stuck waiting for the upgrades I’d ordered to arrive. But what upgrades exactly? As I’ve mentioned before, the SE/30 is one of, if not the, most popular model of compact…

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My Mac SE/30 Part II: First Look

March 19, 2021March 23, 2021Hardware3 Comments

It’s #MARCHintosh, a time for retro-computing enthusiasts to celebrate their passion for classic macs. In Part I of this series I wrote about how I acquired my first compact mac in September 2020, the highly-coveted titular Macintosh SE/30. I’d only just gotten it out of the shipping package and verified it was indeed as advertised.…

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My Mac SE/30 Part I: Acquisition

March 17, 2021March 22, 2021Hardware5 Comments

In 2020 I decided to get into restoring classic macs. I started by acquiring a Power Macintosh 8600/200 and transforming it into a powerful crossover machine – a tool to help transfer files to and from older macs and my modern computers. You can read the story of that restoration beginning here: Adventures in Macintosh…

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Adventures in Macintosh restoration Part IX: Captain, She Needs More RAM!

November 14, 2020March 16, 2021Hardware2 Comments

In Part VIII, I added USB to my Power Macintosh 8600/200 and got the final system setup installed and running. Now it’s time to address my final planned upgrade for this machine, adding some more RAM. Video RAM was easy The first thing I upgraded was the machine’s video RAM. The default configuration is only…

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