Fixing Macintosh SE FDHD
This is Professor omzn, specializing in vintage Mac restoration. Even when left unpowered and merely displayed, my old Macs continue to steadily deteriorate. Last December, when I powered up my Macintosh SE FDHD after a long absence, it spat out an error screen during boot. The hard drive was making abnormal noises… Has it finally gone…? Basic specifications of the Macintosh SE FDHD: Launched: August 1989 CPU: Motorola 68000 @ 8 MHz Memory: 4 MB HDD: 20 MB SCSI FDD: 1.4 MB The 68000 was a CPU that competed directly with Intel’s 80286 in its era. From a modern perspective, the CPU is roughly 1,000 times more powerful, memory capacity …