>Hello all, a few questions I can't find in the archives/faq:
I'll try to answer some of your questions.
>
>
>1. I completely disassembled the fan on my newly purchased Mac SE because
>it was too loud, hoping to find dirt to be the culprit. Unfortunately,
>after removing all dirt with a toothbrush and removing and lubricating the
>two bearings, I still find that it is too loud, though it seems to spin
>freely. The fan is so loud that the spinning of the internal 20MB HD(which
>is quite loud) can't be discerned over it. Has the SE always been this
>loud? Is there any way to quiet it that won't compromise cooling? Would an
>SE/30 be quieter?
In my experience the volume of the individual machines varies
greatly. You can't tell from the outside or from the type (se, se
fdhd, se/30) if it will be noisy. My se fdhd with a se/30 mother
board is rather quiet, but I have some compacts in my garage
(including a se/30) that are much noisier.
>
>2. Has anyone done any measurements of the power consumptions of the
>compacts? I've found the power consumptions listed in Apple's spec
>database, but was hoping to find some measurements based on actual usage.or
>do they always consume the listed power? Is there any way to turn off the
>CRT? I'm trying to figure the price of running one as a server 24/7, with
>content about classic Macs (I'll post the URL if I ever decide to run it
>full time:)
Why turn of the crt? Just run a screensaver (a clock maybe), your crt
will last for a long time. Anyway. I think it is not very handy to
have a server without a monitor. You may not need it much, but
sometimes you will...
>
>
>5. This question is probably more appropriate for another list, but does
>anyone still have an older version of MPW that will run on an SE 2.5/20?
>I'm interested in doing some 68000 assembly programming, but only have
>Macintosh Development System 1.0, which doesn't even seem to know about or
>be able to handle HFS (it runs under system 1.1).
There is some info on my webpage on programming compacts. You might
wanna check it out.
>
>6. Is there/will there ever be a way to fix CRT burn in?
Not afaik.
>
>7. I'm interested in the SE/30 grayscale upgrade, I've always known about
>those cards but they've always been too much $$ on ebay. Sounds like it
>needs an SE/30 video card, which I'm probably not going to be able to get.
>I'm have little knowledge on the subject, but how hard would it be to make
>the video card, so that the whole thing could be made from scratch? I hope
>your current plan doesn't involve sacrificing too much precious antique
>hardware:-p
I thought you wanted tot disable the monitor.
>
>Anyway, I'm posting this from my SE, getting tired of the low refresh rate
>and its 4AM so sorry for the length, I'm not sure if these multiple
>questions should be in 1 post.
Personally I think the crt's of compact macs are amongst the most
pleasent monitors to look at. They are much crisper than most iMac
crt's and the cheaper pc monitors.
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