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My Mac SE/30 Part IX: System 7.5 Boot Floppy

December 8, 2021Hardware1 Comment

In Part VIII of this series, I finished prepping a 2 GB SD card for the SCSI2SD that will serve as the primary disk for my vintage Macintosh SE/30. Now it’s time to get that disk formatted and a working system installed, but to do so I’ll need to create a boot floppy first. As…

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My Mac SE/30 Part VII: SCSI2SD Setup #1

September 17, 2021September 23, 2021Hardware2 Comments

In Part VI of this series, I replaced the dead hard drive in my vintage Macintosh SE/30 with a modern SCSI2SD. Next I’ll need to set up and configure the SCSI2SD to meet my needs. Now, despite the wonderful versatility of the device, its configuration is not for the faint of heart, especially when used…

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My Mac SE/30 Part VI: SCSI2SD Installation

June 11, 2021September 17, 2021Hardware9 Comments

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, 2021Hardware2 Comments

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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