I got my SE for the price of a coke out of the vending machine, there was this e-waste company up the road when I moved into this town and I showed up a lunch, just some guy wandering into a dumpy ass warehouse at lunch like hey man... how much you want for this performa 200, this SE and this amiga ... the workers looked at me like I was speaking spanish or something and said "I dunno the boss is out to lunch"... its got to be like 110F in this place dead summer in middle TN ,there's 4 guys that don't know what the hell I am doing there and things are starting to get awkward... so I say "listen these things are sitting face down in the mud, its hotter than hell in here I got 5 bucks in 1 dollar bills and there's a coke machine over there, let me grab them and buy you all an ice cold drink in exchange for these machines" SOLD!

I wish this guy would make more videos. He's great.

Ironic that an expansion slot took out Woz's signature.

I had an SE running System 6.0.8. It was amazingly seamless. If I'm not mistaken, it was the last operating system the world will ever see, that was made by a group of people who all worked in the same building.

We miss you. You are a very high production value KZfaqr You could review toast or a yard rake and we’d probably enjoy it

Your voice is so soothing. Also, you're hilarious.

5:47 Anyone else notice the "Cholera" typo in the price list? Also, great content! I don't know why it's suddenly showing up in my feed but I like it.

The SE case design is one of my favourites in terms of 1980s computers

I loved my SE/30, I got it around the time the Quadras were being rolled out, and as a kid, it was a delight to play with a Mac at home (since they'd just got the LCII's and even the teachers were running them with a manual in hand). Later moved up to a Quadra when the Power Macs rolled out (love the 6100 vid because I had the 610), got a Power Mac 8100 when the G3 iMacs rolled out. Now, I have a 2010 iMac I'm typing this on. For those of us who've had to get by with the last generation, revisiting the older macs is a ton of fun, I hope you do more.

Wonderful memories of having to use these at my first workplace. We used to do our online banking back in the day on one of these machines - the extent of which was to check bank balances in relative real time.

Wow, this really brings back memories. We even had the "system saver" for our SE.

The Mac I grew up on from age six, making me a Mac nerd for life. Schocked to learn SE stood for System Expansion. I always assumed it meant Second Edition.

Our design college had a room full of SE30's in '89. The first Mac I ever used. Around the same time a friend bought an SE30, it was something like $10k AUD. In today's money that's around $21k.

My first Mac !!

love the coffee table

I like to come back and rewatch your videos. My SE/30 has the monkey alert. :)

Even though I knew most of what you covered, I found this very entertaining! Thanks for your effort :)

"I need more than a machine. I need answers."

Damn the pheripherals were so expensive.

I'd love to see a tour of your full mac collection in 1 video - I bet it's impressive.

Love the speach, details and humor!

I absolutely love the way we always have to wait a second for the "wah wah" lol

Cheers for this video, just found it. I brought a Macintosh SE with a HD and. The 4mb of ram!. It has all Manuals and keyboard, mouse, and loads of system floppy disks. Also came with a official apple carry case. I payed £40 for it and it is mint, no marks and Has been stored for years. The lady that owned it used to transport it to work from the UK to the US I couldn't imagine that pain!!!

a very good summary of the SE.I noticed this video is 8 years old, but I just found it. Many things have changed in that time and there are a lot of options now for keeping systems like this going and replacing the components that will eventually fail. It is posible to upgrade the screen to grayscale, is a bit involved but can be done. The hard drive can be replaced with a SD card on an adapter that reads disk images to simulate multiple SCSI drives. The analog boards can be replaced with more modern circuits and so on. Have a look at what the Action Retro channel has done with his SE's and you can see what can be done :)

I must have had a super rare up top fan on my mac plus... I can't recall the name or brand, but it finished flush with the case top and rear, had no ties to power seemingly. Like the one you showed here, and what I see on ebay with the additional outlets... had none of that, just an illuminated switch up top and flush vents.

Your channel is amazing! i don't see how you don't have more subs!

Work colleague dug out his old SE FDHD and proceeded to moan about it not starting up... percussive maintenance applied and it fired right up. Good ol' stiction on the HD's..

grew up with this thing and I recognize those damn manuals because I read all of each one! hard to imagine today

I've had this machine. Lovely machine

I really love old Macs.

Cata la mejor de Gh, una reina de los medios, no tiene desperdicio. Esta nos alimenta a todos, abuela !

I remember that external apple drive to be so damn loud, even for those days.. but 20megabytes, that really was something! (how could anyone ever fill all that space !?) 😂

i love the SE, found three in my neighborhood dumpster

The SE Keyboard is one of the best products Apple released. I know it's not actually made by Apple (it's made by Alps Electric), but neverheless is a product that I'm actually willing to buy, new old stock or second hand.

they need to bring the manuals back

I got a good deal on a complete set. It even came with a carrying tote.

My First Mac was a Mac SE (4/20)

I don't know if this has been pointed out before but your explanation of "floppy" is wrong. It's not about the plastic used for the housing, but instead it's about the physical medium within the housing. The physical medium within both 5.25" and 3.5' disks were a floppy mylar with a coating, whereas the physical medium in all hard-disk drives were a rigid metal disk with a coating.

I've restored a few SEs and SE/30s. Phosphor burn of the menu bar isn't so bad because if/when you use the machine there will always be a menu bar there anyway.

The SE was basically a Plus with a PDS, a faster SCSI implementation with an internal SCSI port, and ADB replacing the original phone-style keyboard and serial mouse. Otherwise it still had the same screen, 800k floppy, 8MHz 68k, and 4MB RAM ceiling as the basic Plus. If you already had a Plus (or could get one at a significant discount) it would have been more cost-effective to buy it more RAM and an external hard drive rather than replacing it, with the SE only becoming an attractive option if you really needed Ethernet or video out and/or the FDHD compatibility when it became available (the Plus never got FDHD upgrades and even the original SE (and Mac II) needed new chips and disk drives to get FDHD capability).

2:54 - thank you for the unnecessary WAH WAH

Amazing and detailed video!

I lol'd so hard and learnt so much thank you

Through the wonders of modern science, it's almost entirely possible to build one of these logic boards from scratch - we've reverse engineered the GLU, the ADB chips, and now all the original macintosh/plus PAL chips have been rever engineered, a new BBU would be possible too.

Great video! Actually, 3.5" floppy disks were called floppy because the disk itself is floppy, unlike a HDD's platters. It was just encased in hard plastic, unlike earlier models. Same thing with 2.8" and 3" models.

Enjoyable thanks

Hope he dose one on he eMac!! I love mine!

I watched the unboxing of the hard drive wile looking at my Much smaller 4 tb seagate external. Thank god for modern technology I think my keyboard has more ram/cpu then the entire SE. Good videos thanks for the effort =)

Whoa, Mohawk College Radio and a Treble Charger sticker? Very mid-90s Hamilton, Ontario... there we are again hmmm.

More videos !!! I love your videos

Do one on the external SCSI drives that used to fit under these machines - Ehman, CMS, and Jasmine.

You'd think the iPhone SE name didn't make sense but they've been using that moniker long before.

Like your videos thank you to remind me the old systems. Clearly after 40 years this devices prove are not longer useful for even web browsers are supported. For collectors may be a good idea if you have the space and like this. But for daily bases. This computer looks like typewriters.

Put out another Mac related video or the bunny gets it

Genius !!!!

I have one of these. $40 sounds about right. I got mine for about $75 shipped from eBay back in 2015. I don't recall now what the price was minus the shipping though. eBay doesn't track my order history back that far. Anyways I "might" have paid a bit more then $40 not factoring the shipping though. It didn't have an internal harddrive. It was the "SuperDrive" model so should have had one. Did have the cable/LED and mounting hardware still inside though. Guess the HD was either pulled for privacy reasons or reused in another machine by previous owner. Anyways the interesting tidbit about mine was it came with a Ethernet card installed. I heard those are kinda rare. Kinda makes up for the fact I got just the main unit. It didn't come with a mouse or keyboard. I happened to already have a keyboard though. I ended up selling the Ethernet card as part cash and trade for a working hard-drive and mouse. So I no longer have the Ethernet card. Almost regret selling that. But not really. In the years that I have had this thing, I never felt the need that I needed to use it. The Ethernet card it had used a different type of connector besides the usual one modern machines used and required an adapter. I forget the details and it's a major factor in why I decided it was worth trading away for more useful parts at the time. Though trying to connect this thing to the Internet would be an amusing thing to attempt. Though at the moment this curiosity isn't enough for me to attempt finding/buying one. They are probably impossible to find on eBay for reasonable prices and I definitely wouldn't want to spend more then $10 or $20 for one. :P At the time I bought this thing I was trying to get an SE/30. But couldn't find one at a price I could afford so I ended up settling on that SE. Does have burn in though. But it isn't that bad and so far it runs fine. Though I should probably recap the analog board at some point.... :P

I bought an SE locally for $50.00, which included software, a good deal!

The main issue going forward is probably the CRT itself. Most of these CRTs have a lot of hours on them. CRTs do not last forever and time on plays a big role. While the components will likely remain available, the CRT tubes themselves are what will eventually kill these machines. Frankly, I'm surprised the eMac has not become the new SE SE/30 /Classic. It too is an all in one machine and can use a LOT more software. Since it has USB slots and firewire, hooking things up to it just isn't as big a deal as the SEs have always been. Transferring software to an eMac is just stupidly easy. Dump the files on a thumb drive and away you go. Dealing with DD 880k disks has always been a pain in the ass.

I still have my SE in the closet. I had to replace the logic board with an SE/30 one though years ago when mine died. I did upgrade that sucker to 16mb RAM though since in no flipping way would you ever need that much RAM on an SE 😋

I don’t know if that was intended but a SE/30 snuggled into the video. : n ) at minute 1:50

Funny video for computing. Thanks man

i played a lot of dark castle on ours.

Man, what a ridiculous prices!! And these are in 1988 Canadian dollars! So, to make a quick calculation for the Mac SE 2/40: Canadian $8,111 in 1988 would be Canadian $15,605 in 2019. So that's US $11,854 or €10,404 for an unpowered Mac with a small B/W screen!! No wonder, the Mac didn't increase market share. Apple bozos (Sculley, Spindler) went for the high margin,low volume (short-term) while they had to go for the low margin, high volume market (long-term). Steve Jobs said so too.

Hi, May be you will answer a question that i found no responding until now. I got an Mac SE FD HD version with extension card installed inside with an DB9 connector as shown in your video. What type of video monitor are compatible with ? And is it for displaying only b&w or colors ? Is it an standard rgb signal or else generated ? Some links to technical details, schematics or informations about it ? Thanks a lot and very interesting videos on your channel.. Hello from France, Paulo

20 mb hard drive. heh. some emails today are 20 times change.

It's very funny to see how Steve Jobs undid everything that Apple did from 1985 to 1997.

11:23 LOL bring back the monkey

Oh is the optional hard drive the origin of the Apple Tax?

i have a macintosh SE with keyboard and mouse

Weird minature centrifigal tube fans or whatever, hard to find them for sale anymore, probably very hard to get the bearing balance perfect so it didn't wear out, its just double the problem vs a single bearing fan.

Getting a clean working example now for a couple hundred bucks off of ebay is now a bargain. Wish I had picked one up back in 2014 to play around with.

When are you releasing a new video

5:31 Is that a Radius card? My SE/30 had a Radius Full Page display card and I don't know if it could be compatible with an Apple portrait display adapting the DB-9 to a DB-15?

another great video, great production values, humor, I also like that you sound like Tina Belcher from Bob's Burgers ... I hope that doesn't hurt your feelings but it makes your videos so much more palatable than "others" with their yelling and over excited behavior. These are old macs not orgasms ... jeez youtubers ... oh yea the SE30 was the hot rod of the early macs because people were constantly modding them ... only the cool rebel people had them

Please tell me where you got that clip of the guy trying to sell his Mac Classic

Remember when you should not pay more than $40 for a Mac SE

I replaced my 128K with an SE 2/20. Who could possibly use 20 meg of space he asked.......

Mac Chimney? More like Mac Phallus

regular car reviews… but make it more Macintosh…

You would think, at those prices, they could at least give you a color screen.

So expensive!

$129 for a fricking keyboard?