Mac SE/30: The Resurrection

What did it take to get my Mac SE/30 going again? Based on the symptoms, it was something I never expected. Watch how I recapped the motherboard in this machine: https://youtu.be/bt_AAZnJXIs Resources and information sources: Free Geek Twin Cities: http://www.freegeektwincities.org 68kMLA Forums: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php SE/30 capacitor reference: http://www.maccaps.com/MacCaps/Capacitor_Reference/Entries/1989/1/19_Macintosh_SE_30.html SE/30 motherboard schematics: https://museo.freaknet.org/gallery/apple/stuff/mac/andreas.kann/schemat.html Big Mess o' Wires ROM-inator: https://www.bigmessowires.com/mac-rom-inator-ii IBM WDS-L40 series hard drive jumper settings: http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pcdisk/h/JUMPERS/765.HTM SCSI2SD adapter setup and premade Mac OS images: http://www.savagetaylor.com/2018/01/05/setting-up-your-vintage-classic-68k-macintosh-using-a-scsi2sd-adapter Retrobright long-term re-yellowing: https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2013-01-15-retr0bright-only-temporary.htm Macintosh IIx photo: http://www.vectronicscollections.org/apple/macintoshiix.php Macworld Magazine, April 1987: https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_8704_April_1987 Mac Plus photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Macintosh822014.JPG Macworld Magazine, March 1989: https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_8903_March_1989 Mac SE/30 pricing: InfoWorld, March 27, 1989 ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music: "Now or Never (You and Me)" by Dan Mason (http://danmason.bandcamp.com). Additional music by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).