I brought "Mac SE" 30 years ago to the Genius Bar of the Apple Store this way

Genius Bar in the Apple Store is a customer support counter that brings Apple products, consults and repairs troubles, and replaces parts. To this Genius Bar, "30 years ago released"Macintosh SE(Mac SE) ", and a movie that verifies what happens when bringing in the prototype which was used in development has been released.

THE BRITISH TECH NETWORK
http://www.britishtechnetwork.com/mac/the-30-year-old-mac-goes-back

Apple get a 30 year old Mac SE Running - YouTube


This time the prototype of Mac SE was brought to Genius Bar is Ewan Rankin, who is delivering the program called THE BRITISH TECH NETWORK. Mac SE owned by Rankin is a prototype developed at Apple's office in California and brought to Apple's office in Stockley Park, England in 1987. When Stockleigh's office was closed, Apple's staff at that time transferred Mac SE to Mr. Yuan, and Euan cherished the Mac SE in the original bag for 25 years since then Thing.


Mr. Yuan got a floppy disk from one user to recruit the floppy disk of System 3.3 by installing "System 3.3" of the OS on Mac SE on his own program. For Ewan who had a career at work at Apple, it seems that it is not difficult to install System 3.3 on Mac SE, but I thought about trying to bring the stuff back to the Genius Bar and try to repair it.


That's why Yuan came to the Apple Store in Solihull.


Although shooting inside the shop was declined, I told that I got permission to take pictures. Some of the staff were born after the launch of Mac SE, and it seems that they got a little photo session.


A staff member who used the Macintosh in the 1980s succeeded in booting from the floppy disk, but I am confronted with another problem that the mouse that was bundled is too old to move at all.


In order to solve the problem of the mouse, I called Darren Griffin of MacFixer who repairs the Mac product and remembered how to manipulate the mouse cursor with what the keyboard input was doing.


I attempted to install System 3.3 with the cooperation of Griffin, but this time I can not install due to problems with the internal disk.


According to a user named Apple engineer that gave up the floppy disk of System 3.3, the prototype of Mac SE has 20 MB HDD built in, unlike the product version, but the head does not move on the platters There was a problem that it was. In order to solve the problem that the head does not move, it was necessary to take a little hard to believe now, to remove the HDD from the main body and rotate it by hand to loosen the platter. In addition, the product version has been changed to 40MB of HDD.


According to the advice of the former engineer's user, this time it succeeded in installing. It seems that when five staff members went to repair unusual Mac SE and installed it, it was quite exciting.