Your system is a lifesaver.

I will sing it praises for the rest of my days!

ALSO LAST NOTE!

If you try to resurrect one of these yourself:

#1 CHANGE THAT BATTERY IMMEDIETELY.

#2 Install Disinfectant right out the gate and USE IT
macintoshgarden.org/apps/disinfe...
Contrary to what people think, the old Macs had virus's and they are rampant through the online repositories

Oh -- Before I Forget:

FDHD means Floppy Disk High Density.

Before this model, Macs used a proprietary 400k and 800k floppy disk format.

The FDHD used a 1.44meg format and by extension allows disk sharing between it and MSDOS based computers.

As you can see.

I suck at it.

But, in the end, I finally got to start learning how to type properly using Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing on a Macintosh SE FDHD... like my wife did back thirty years ago.

It was not all sunshine and roses. There were some issues in which Noodles tested my patience with her ignoring some of the SCSI conventions.

Which is an entirely different story.

The BlueSCSI allows one to emulate a SCSI Chain.

There are other options, but I went with the one that had better documentation available before purchase. I chose the external because, "reasons."

The ADB-WOMBAT allows a user to convert USB signals to ADB signals -- which classic Mas require.

Two more things I needed were a keyboard and mouse. Which when you hear the word Vintage, you should think EXPENSIVE. So I went another route.

Meet The BlueSCSI emulator and the USB-Wombat.

bluescsi.com

www.bigmessowires.com/usb-wombat/

It was not all easy. In order to get her working properly, I needed to change out her 3.6v 1/2AA Battery, or as they are affectionately known as, "Bombs."

They have a habit of exploding in their old age and destroying old tech.

As you can see in this repeated image, the battery was intact.

She came to me with a working 20MB Hard Drive with System 6.0.5 as her operating system. The hard drive was also manufactured in 1989, so the fact that it worked... it was a miracle.

You should have seen how clean she was inside.

There was almost zero dust accumulated.

Here you see her -- I named her Noodles -- booted up showing her with System 6.0.8 (apologies about the interlaced monitor and photographs) and the astute eye will notice that she has two active SCSI Hard Drives (Noodles and Bento).

Both are 2GB in size (On a computer manufactured in 1989).

Here we see it in my office with the protective dust cover removed.

Yes, that is an @kaceyfish.bsky.social original on my office wall. That is also a huge coffee cup, and Applejack, a cute Cthulhu, a Caterpie, and a whole bunch of light novels and anime figurines.

The red thing is the battery on the SE FDHD. That battery was from November of 1989 and miraculously had not exploded.

@crossbowroof.bsky.social

Be really careful of the battery. Those things can be very dangerous. If it is still intact, remove it.

If I remember correctly, it uses a 3.6v 1/2AA battery. At least that is what the SE uses.

It was a gift from VulpesRex at BLFC.

It is in spectacular condition.

*find

Oh wow. I used to read Vampirella back in the 70s. Nice job.

Yes, we were. It became part of Kacey's carry-on. It is intact and super cool.