Just a quick update for everyone watching this video (I honestly can't believe its still getting views), The hard drive in the machine died. I was trying to take it apart to see if I could replace it but no luck. Any ideas?
The hard disk inside of that computer is a MiniScribe mechanism. MiniScribe made 20 MByte and 40 MByte stepper moter hard disk drives mainly used in the Macintosh SE only. By the time the SE/30 came out, stepper motor hard disk drives would have been considered slow and obsolete.
@sunstringmusic - i needs a little jump to unstick the arms - if you can open it and start it up and give the top a little tap with a heavy end of a screw driver - that shd kick it back into life. I used to have this problem all the time.
I know you can hook up a larger hard disk drive to it. My point of the size was when it was introduced, the largest available at the time was I believe roughly 100MB.
My other point was the sound of the HDD. Trust me, I know as I worked with the Macintosh SE. The HDD on the Mac in the video was its original. Very loud.
Yeah. I have a Macintosh SE (bought for $10, hehe) which has 4 MB RAM and a 100 MB hard drive and the 800K Superdrive floppy drive. I think it has Mac OS 7.
This was my first computer :) and I'm 16.
glowcode 5 months ago
THE machine for Crysis.
FeeLtheHertZ 8 months ago
Thanks for posting this! I had an SE/30 as well and the sound of that HDD brings back memories! :) Wish I still had it for nostalgia reasons...
bradgclark 9 months ago
Just a quick update for everyone watching this video (I honestly can't believe its still getting views), The hard drive in the machine died. I was trying to take it apart to see if I could replace it but no luck. Any ideas?
grhall1 1 year ago
@grhall1 well they can boot off floppys but now did you ever get inside or just even couldn't get the cover off?
the731272 11 months ago
@grhall1 An identical 8425SA? They're still findable and work too. just a suggestion if you want to keep it original...
HemaZev 10 months ago
The hard disk inside of that computer is a MiniScribe mechanism. MiniScribe made 20 MByte and 40 MByte stepper moter hard disk drives mainly used in the Macintosh SE only. By the time the SE/30 came out, stepper motor hard disk drives would have been considered slow and obsolete.
DiskTwenty 1 year ago
THE LITTLE STEPPER MOTOR HARD DISK SOUNDS LIKE IT'S SUPER BUSY INSIDE THERE SWISHING ABOUT!
DiskTwenty 1 year ago
LoL, I can find it for less than 10 bucks...
Haloxxx360 2 years ago
the bootup chime sounds like a upgraded motherboard kuz usually it makes a "beep" noise
hddr3 2 years ago
@hddr3 all Mac SE/30's make that noise....don't get confused with the plain SE.
SE/30 has a 68030 processor (basically a Mac IIx in a SE case), whereas the SE only has a 68000 processor.
All Macs with a 68030 processor make that noise.
Effluvium4 1 year ago
@Effluvium4 i figured that out! i didnt know when i made the comment
hddr3 1 year ago
@hddr3 Its because its booting from a floppy disk drive.
madmax2069 1 year ago
@hddr3 not the SE/30. The original SE had the beep. But the SE/30 is different
iSquishy89 1 year ago
what INITs do you have on there?
JoebDragon 2 years ago
so the 20 MB Hard disks were very loud. hard drives after 1990 were quiet.
kargaroc386 2 years ago
my se dont make that sound
sunstringmusic 3 years ago
What sound?
grhall1 3 years ago
all the sound..... from the disk...
pradahacker 3 years ago
@grhall1 The sound of it booting off the disk drive.
madmax2069 1 year ago
Some did and some didn't. All of the ones that made that sound were the models that contained a 20MB Apple HDD.
psyduck1539 3 years ago
@sunstringmusic The SE/30 does
16mmDJ 1 year ago
@sunstringmusic - i needs a little jump to unstick the arms - if you can open it and start it up and give the top a little tap with a heavy end of a screw driver - that shd kick it back into life. I used to have this problem all the time.
b2lvideos 8 months ago
@sunstringmusic If you're talking about the startup chime, the Macintosh SE/30 is more new, therefore it makes a different chime.
TheSpike3000 5 months ago
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TomzDomz 1 month ago
Now I know why computers in movies make sounds, cracks and beeps every time you do something...
bureX 4 years ago
It sounds like its printing a paper on a dot-matrix printer in the begining.
Bellwestern80 4 years ago
It's the sound of floppy drive.
yksoft1 4 years ago
Actually that is the sound of the Hard Disk Drive. I think the system is initializing the hardware for initial startup.
Hard drives at the time the Macintosh SE was made were very noisy and could hold from 10MB all the way to 100MB
psyduck1539 4 years ago
you can connect a much larger SCSI HD to SE.
yksoft1 4 years ago
I know you can hook up a larger hard disk drive to it. My point of the size was when it was introduced, the largest available at the time was I believe roughly 100MB.
My other point was the sound of the HDD. Trust me, I know as I worked with the Macintosh SE. The HDD on the Mac in the video was its original. Very loud.
psyduck1539 4 years ago
Yeah. I have a Macintosh SE (bought for $10, hehe) which has 4 MB RAM and a 100 MB hard drive and the 800K Superdrive floppy drive. I think it has Mac OS 7.
wvoutlaw2002 3 years ago
BTW, 3 1/2" floppy drives were not that loud. The 5 1/4" floppy drives were loud, but not nearly as loud as the original 20MB Macintosh HDDs.
psyduck1539 4 years ago
What un-godly noises that thing can make
PRocker267 4 years ago
That is from the hard disk drive. They were very noisy. Trust me as I used a Macintosh at school back in the late 1980s.
psyduck1539 4 years ago
that boots faster than my winxp today lol
spikeyazz90 4 years ago