Restoring a $7 Macintosh SE, Will it Work?

[@raccoroni.]

i love how simple these systems are today but how complex and revolutionary they were back when they first came out.

[@Quest-lore]

I would’ve bought that in a heart beat if I saw it for 7 dollars lol

[@brimless_]

astolfos looking fine today

[@truegodaries]

Astolfo is a W

[@compufood]

Nice video! Just a heads up, compact Macs like this Mac SE originally shipped with the picture adjusted how it was when you first powered it on. If you take a look at the service manual, you’ll find that the picture adjustment section instructs the repair tech to adjust the screen to be 7 inches wide by 4.7 inches high. Keep up the great content, it’s always nice seeing younger people get into retro tech.

[@masterkitty]

Be aware- theres a battery on the motherboard that can, and eventually will explode and destroy the computer. Remove it! It's keeping the date and time only and likely is already dead.

[@andrewmackie5110]

This. Definitely important!

[@ExtremeDude2]

Your thrift store is wild, I can never find anything at any of mine 😅

[@rustylasagna]

Electronic recycling stores also have stuff like this, I believe. That’s where I got one of my computers.

[@mattsephton]

Nice video. BTW, the reason that the video output doesn't take up the whole screen out of the box is because it was so that art would present at 1:1 in design apps. If you ever want to set it back there are official measurements in old Macintosh repair guides.

[@USArmyVet91]

Seven dollars.... what an epic comeback for this old Mac. Great job getting her shiny and fully functional! 🖥🖥🖥

[@zacmitchell_1984]

Wow 7$ what a steal

[@coldhotpocket8226]

Hey man. Just found you through your dial up video, and you are probably my favorite retro computer oriented channel I've found ever. The production is top notch, and the vibes are immaculate. I hope to see your channel blow up.

[@rmcdudmk212]

Its always fun to watch someone bring on old machine like this back to life.

[@w00derice]

Afterdark flying toasters!! Now I officially feel old! 😂

[@SantiagoSalse]

I'd love to see a Mac Mini inside plugged in to that original CRT to have a modern Mac

[@GinoRigoni]

At 7:26 you can hear an Italian voice speak: "diciannove e trentasei" so I'm from NorthItaly and I would like it for sure

[@realjere]

i love these videos! how do you get such old tech? bean trying to find a old computer to run windows 98 since the one i had broke and is unrepairable.

[@borni6408]

You are like the YTers I love to see. Passion and great form of video. Finally something really interesting. The Vibe I am getting is like me talking to my friend about my PC before we do creative work. The whole atmosphere is awesome aswell.

[@Kyle-xv5kv]

Dude you should hunt down an old iMac G3, you'd love working on those, so fun and slightly upgradeable/overclockable. You can even run BSD on them! Always wanted an SE and its real sweet to see this one getting fixed up.

[@ebkits10]

Just found you through my YT recommendations on an MJD video, absolutely loving the channel so far! Love the vibes in here

[@retroaudis]

love your channel man! so glad I found it. I appreciate the use of vaporwave music, it really fits the vibe

[@hh7426]

Incredible video as always, congrats

[@RodknockRhett]

The videos are great. Old tech is always entertaining to me. Love the content!

[@としゆきどま]

Astolfo 👀

[@truegodaries]

frrrr

[@choppergirl]

When you upgraded it with a 68030 card, 4mb of ram, Multifinder, and a 200-300mb Harddrive, and added a dial up modem, it was a sweet little machine. That's wild you paid 7. Back in the day it was 3,500. i have a ton of these in the barn. Laymen actually called the SE "somewhat expandable". You would finally leave it though in the end... for color. In my case, a Performa 476 68040 25mghz. If I had sold my Macintosh SE back then, and put the money in Apple stock instead, I would have 60 million today, instead of a 7 dollar Macintosh SE . Really makes you think.

[@The_Conspiracy_Analyst]

2.7 million, your math is off.

[@choppergirl]

@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst Well, I got various estimates between 20 and 60 million, depending on stock splits and when I hypotheically invested. Oddly, it wasn't that Macintosh took off, it was the iphone, ipod, and tablet sales... mostly the iphone... and around 2005. Back in the late 1990's, Apple had completely tanked, as well as the PC industry. I literally thought the computer revolution was over... desktop publishing had fizzled out, and most everyone was already bored with AOL dialup. Very few had cable or adsl modems, and the HTML frames internet before KZbin and Web 2.0 and dating sites and pretty much played out and were swcking hardcore by then... I still have my original SE mobo with fried out ADB ports. I gave the upgraded 030 machine with 4mb of ram and a whole pirated copy of Software Etc on Floppy to my cousin in the late 90's. By then I had a AMD FX 300 mghz single core PC. Sad but true. Today rocking 16core 7950x with 128gb 3070gtx. It only took a lifetime for the industry to get to my dream PC.... starting from a 1mghz Vic-20

[@0xBerto]

Awesome. You’ve inspired me. And stoked to have found this channel

[@carter333]

I only have a casual interest in vintage computing but man, your videos are so entertaining! The production quality is great and you seem skilled and funny. I love your outro "if you hate [x] or...me" makes me chuckle every time.

[@Lleafyy]

bro this guy doesn't deserve 8,46K subs, he deserves 1 million

[@jetryder]

Wow, what a trift!

[@RallyElite]

love this video, considering i recently got a Macintosh 512K for $0!!!

[@Lameless]

This channel is chill ngl

[@chriskaprys]

Well, you made me go play a few rounds of Crystal Quest, and yes, it's still as addicting as ever.

[@Zagoorland]

I love your selection of music, on point!

[@HaveYouTriedGuillotines]

I remember there was an old joke about calling the Macintosh SE/30 the Macintosh SEx.

[@Rxdious117]

this is the best youtube channel i have seen in awhile bro

[@ripsora]

very good video +femboy +twink +nerd

[@WinrichNaujoks]

Femboy? What?

[@legoislandstuff8773]

@@WinrichNaujoksI think he’s talking abt the astolfo figure in the bg 😭

[@maxiuxoxo]

What a beauty

[@AFBadBoy]

Good Video Man !

[@TymexComputing]

hot glue reapplied :) - better safe than sorry :)

[@LVL58Designs]

I love this. I'm trying to restore a powermac 6500 and adapter it to use an ssd since the original drive header jammed itself into the platters, scratching them all to hell. :(

[@sohowcome]

Sweet channel! I’m hooked

[@Alex-ce1ol]

Is that MaXX Interactive Desktop I see running in the background? 😀

[@luiscca9315]

so cool 🎉 ❤

[@BlackRockInc]

that feeling when your peripherals cost 6 times more than your computer

[@TymexComputing]

7.5 7.K - You are welcome :)

[@SomberSora]

I love this channel

[@christianmirto1597]

I subed to you because I loved your 56k modem video

[@kitterbug]

in response to that title, doubt.

[@floppybopnopfloppybopnop440]

Whats the digital art you used here 7:53 i love that and is it a wallpaper?

[@OhMyKMPR]

That's one of the After Dark screensavers. This particular one is called "Starry Night".

[@thyrandomchicken]

whats in the background that looks like a console?

[@kucho5286]

6:13 Last Modified feb 13 1991 ☠

[@RATsnak3]

I would go in and re do that soldering properly... but dang I really need to find me one of these. You would think it would be easier considering I live within a couple miles of Apple's headquarters, but no. Too many nerds around here. They're like vultures.

[@nugg3tmusic]

thats awesome lol

[@Miniweet9167]

Get dark castle to work.

[@dmag2734]

Shuffle Puck Cafe lets go!

[@darkobelisk4076]

I'd love a perfectly working old Mac but they're all becoming temperamental and don't believe there's anything that can be done when the CRT croaks.

[@AbacasOnline]

what OS/interface do you use on your main computer?

[@Alex-ce1ol]

Visible in this video were MaXX Interactive Desktop (2:20), which is a clone of SGI's Irix desktop, and KDE Plasma (1:53) on Arch Linux. Also Windows 10 at 6:50

[@WinrichNaujoks]

When's the face reveal coming?

[@billyhatcher643]

this was back when apple actually let us do upgrades unlike now where theyre greedy and wont let us tinker with their pcs

[@t-rex-iran]

noice

[@elliottr6213]

If you plan on making that mint condition the first thing I would do is remove the battery on the logic board and replace the capacitors on all of the boards since they’re prone to leaking. That hard drive probably doesn’t have much life left either so a sd2scsi adapter is a good alternative.

[@compufood]

That really isn’t necessary, the Mac SE (and compact Macs in general) isn’t known for having leaky capacitors. If the analog board is performing as expected, there’s no need to replace anything until a problem arises. “Shotgun replacing” capacitors is always inadvisable, especially if you aren’t confident in your soldering skills. Also, these 20 and 40MB SCSI drives are surprisingly reliable in my experience. A SCSI2SD is hardly necessary, it’s simply a convenient (albeit expensive) quality of life improvement.

[@flowerg9]

epico

[@wizardman101]

Should i buy a working Macintosh SE with a mouse and keyboard for 500 dollars?

[@WellBeSerious12]

Bro, my Batcomputer is faster than your Motorola -8000Mhz computer!

[@thyrandomchicken]

also haha im the 99th like