First post, by xjas
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A while ago I bought this cute little SE/30 for cheap. I knew it was going to be a resto project and probably didn't work as-is, but I had my hopes up for it. I've never had a compact Mac and damnit, it's an SE/30, so it'd be worth a little elbow grease.
EDIT: Sigh... Broken Photob*cket images removed to avoid showing their stupid ad banner & giving them any more undeserved exposure. Sorry about that. Still zapping these as I find them in 2018.
Well, I finally made the appropriate tool...
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...and opened it up. Unfortunately the prognosis is not good. 🙁
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Already not looking happy. It had been sitting in the previous owner's garage for years on a concrete floor so I was hoping the corrosion was just due to moisture. Pulled the board, and...
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Boom. Nope.
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I don't think there's a lot of salvageable parts there. The RAM still looks OK but who knows. I'm guessing this thing will never run again. Even if I got a new logic board, which I don't expect will be easy to find on my island, I don't know if anything else like the CRT or HDD/floppy even work. Sadly I think this one, in its original incarnation, is a goner.
What can I use to clean up the capacitor goo from the motherboard so I can at least assess it or pull chips without it being a biohazard? Should I soak it in vinegar or soapy water?
So what do I do with it now? I'm tempted to rip out everything I can and put something like a Raspberry Pi or even the guts of a Mac Mini in there. Or maybe a Techmoan-style Dockintosh.
Is there any way to drive the CRT with a more conventional computer? I don't suppose it accepts a VGA-ish signal.
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