Itronix
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Sorry if this is a completely dumb question, I don't know a whole lot about Macs (idk if anyone can help me with something this old), but if I don't ask, I'll never know.
A while back I was at a junk type of sale place and I found an old Mac SE 30 peering out of a bin with other electronic crap. Just recently learning I had an interest for old computers as well as all the other old things I like lol, I of course quickly grabbed it. I walked around and found the original keyboard, the original mouse, a power cord, and a ton of mac floppys that looked old. When I asked how much, they said $10, so I figured it would be a neat project.
I brought it home and to my surpise, it booted right up and everything worked perfectly, exept for the sound. The company even left fiancial info on it, which I thought was a bit tacky, but oh well. The floppys had programs, games, and some were duplicates that I made into blanks to put programs I didn't need onto. Hey, I wanted to save space, after all it's a 40 mb hard drive.
I restore tube radios as a hobby, and I constantly look at schematics while I replace capacitors and service the chassis. I was wondering.....is it in any was possible to write schematics onto a floppy and then load that floppy onto the old mac and use it as like a schematic library? I could put it right on my bench and it would be perfect. I really like the little thing and this would make me use it more. Aren't the floppys different though? Even if this creates a lot of trouble, it would be worth it.
Like I say, sorry if this is stupid, but I thought it would be kinda fun. Lol this computer is "old"........it'll be sitting next to electronics that are from the 20s through the 60s.
A while back I was at a junk type of sale place and I found an old Mac SE 30 peering out of a bin with other electronic crap. Just recently learning I had an interest for old computers as well as all the other old things I like lol, I of course quickly grabbed it. I walked around and found the original keyboard, the original mouse, a power cord, and a ton of mac floppys that looked old. When I asked how much, they said $10, so I figured it would be a neat project.
I brought it home and to my surpise, it booted right up and everything worked perfectly, exept for the sound. The company even left fiancial info on it, which I thought was a bit tacky, but oh well. The floppys had programs, games, and some were duplicates that I made into blanks to put programs I didn't need onto. Hey, I wanted to save space, after all it's a 40 mb hard drive.
I restore tube radios as a hobby, and I constantly look at schematics while I replace capacitors and service the chassis. I was wondering.....is it in any was possible to write schematics onto a floppy and then load that floppy onto the old mac and use it as like a schematic library? I could put it right on my bench and it would be perfect. I really like the little thing and this would make me use it more. Aren't the floppys different though? Even if this creates a lot of trouble, it would be worth it.
Like I say, sorry if this is stupid, but I thought it would be kinda fun. Lol this computer is "old"........it'll be sitting next to electronics that are from the 20s through the 60s.
I've always liked the SE/30's. Someone even offered me one, but it turned out to be an SE with a 200MB drive in it 
. I suspect it's software, I'd just need to reinstall it, if I can find it and get it onto a floppy or find an original, as you said.
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