One of my better finds.
I was cruising garage sales one Saturday when I happened to spot what appeared to be a complete Mac system sitting on a table. I stopped my car, got out, and had to force myself not to RUN toward the SE. It never pays to get too excited at garage sales, as the owners will be less likely to bargain if they know you HAVE to have the item.
At any rate, it turns out the system included the SE, ADB keyboard, ADB mouse, cables, an original manual (!), and it all packed together in its very own soft sided carrying case (!!!). I had heard the there were cases such as this available for the old all-in-one MACS, but I had never seen one until now. I talked the owners down from $25 to $20 dollars, and hauled my new Mac home.
Once powered up, I discovered that the Mac had once belonged to a college student (ostensibly the son of the people from whom I had just purchased it), and was full of nudie-pics! I had to laugh. If only they knew their nice, well-educated son had a thing for Anna Nicole Smith.
The SE has a 40mb SCSI hard drive, 2mb of memory, and an 1.44 floppy (versus 400k or 800k; hence the “Superdrive” moniker). It is running OS 7.1, and the processor is the 68000-8mhz.
It does not have the fabled signatures of it’s creators inside the case, unlike it’s older Mac 128 and 512 brethren.
Interesting Update: Recently at work, the Dean of the College of Humanities asked us to try and salvage data off a couple of 800k floppies. None of the iMacs or Powerbooks in the office would read them, so I lugged the SE into the office the next morning. It ran like a champ and we were able to transfer the data onto 1.44 floppys, which we then used to burn CDROMS. And they told me it was useless…
