About your discharghing of the tube, and especially high voltages in general: When dealing with those (anything possibly live above around 50 V AC or 100 V DC or so to be sure), I was taught to always 'keep one hand behind your back'. Meaning, it's way better to have the current flow from your hand and arm through your side and leg to the ground than to have it across your chest and heart...
@@jamwatn discharging is a process of equalising the charge between the plates, you'd rather call it short-circuiting than grounding. residual charge in a CRT is actually relatively tiny it's the HV that makes it potentially dangerous because it overcomes skin resistance. (for more details on skin resistance look up Darwin awards of a navy electrician in training who "won" by electrocuting himself with a 9V battery by connecting it directly into his bloodstream in both hands)
The eMac is the last, and most powerful Mac that can still run OS 9 natively. It's a pretty good platform for pre-OS X Mac gaming, if you can stand its noisy-ass fan. If you ever take the back off, be extremely careful of the wire that connects to the power button. It's tiny, fragile, and damn near impossible to plug back into the button once it's disconnected. Ask me how I know.
Thanks for sharing that 5s tip. I've been playing with PowerPC Macs recently and fixed a broken screen on iMac G4, grabbed a G5 Quad and iMac G5 to go with Mini G4 and never had a clue about your tip!
Great deals on both machines! On the Macintosh SE, I've never seen a PRAM battery soldered directly to the board like yours. Every single unit I've seen in person has had a factory battery holder. This must be an early revision board I'm thinking.
I programmed on PASCAL on the Macintosh SE and other similar models in university. I look forward to seeing you fix that SCSI hard disk or replace it with a modern storage alternative. Great find for $20!!
The best one was the Commodore 1702 color monitor, which would zap your fingertips right through the carrying handles set into the sides, even after turned off... Was close to dropping mine the first time.
Awesome deals, can't beat those prices. Looked at some vintage laptops but have to say I too am more interesting in the pre-blueberry era of Mac computers. ;) Lol I love that interview "This new model is more internally accessible.", "How is that useful to Mac users, they take them to dealers for upgrades and repairs.", "Uhhhhhhhh.". ^_^ Fun looking at the eMac, don't think I've seen one before. Wow that is a late computer desktop for a user not using folders, so messy. :S
What awesome machines! Hopefully you can either get the SE hard disk working, or fit a new drive replacement instead. (The newest "cool" SCSI replacement seems to be the ZuluSCSI from the people who brought you SCSI2SD)
I was working on my mother's television set that was downstairs. I was using a screwdriver, and once the shaft touched the chassis the circuit flipped and there was an arc. The spot is still on the screwdriver; I had forgotten to unplug the set. It was a write-off, anyway, since I didn't know what I was doing.
@@RetroHackShack I left working at that school a short time later so I don't know! They seemed quite capable, from memory. Early OS X was the worst part. We had lots of problems copying files over an ethernet network. If they were more than a few dozen megabytes, the transfer would just fail randomly.
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About your discharghing of the tube, and especially high voltages in general: When dealing with those (anything possibly live above around 50 V AC or 100 V DC or so to be sure), I was taught to always 'keep one hand behind your back'. Meaning, it's way better to have the current flow from your hand and arm through your side and leg to the ground than to have it across your chest and heart...
I have heard this too
I was wondering also about the grounding...
Surely without connecting the chassis of the computer to the ground, you aren't grounding it out?
@@jamwatn discharging is a process of equalising the charge between the plates, you'd rather call it short-circuiting than grounding. residual charge in a CRT is actually relatively tiny it's the HV that makes it potentially dangerous because it overcomes skin resistance. (for more details on skin resistance look up Darwin awards of a navy electrician in training who "won" by electrocuting himself with a 9V battery by connecting it directly into his bloodstream in both hands)
The eMac is the last, and most powerful Mac that can still run OS 9 natively. It's a pretty good platform for pre-OS X Mac gaming, if you can stand its noisy-ass fan. If you ever take the back off, be extremely careful of the wire that connects to the power button. It's tiny, fragile, and damn near impossible to plug back into the button once it's disconnected. Ask me how I know.
Thanks for the tip!
Anything CRT is retro now, eMac especially is retro.
Thanks for sharing that 5s tip. I've been playing with PowerPC Macs recently and fixed a broken screen on iMac G4, grabbed a G5 Quad and iMac G5 to go with Mini G4 and never had a clue about your tip!
Great. I am not sure exactly which models it works with but I have used it several time. It doesn't hurt if you have a system that isn't booting.
Great deals on both machines! On the Macintosh SE, I've never seen a PRAM battery soldered directly to the board like yours. Every single unit I've seen in person has had a factory battery holder. This must be an early revision board I'm thinking.
Could be. I don't remember what my other SE had when I opened it up. Are they all Lithium though? I assume so.
The eMac is in really good condition and its beautiful. It would be really interesting to see if it could run NetBSD and access the Internet.
Yeah. I am sure it can.
Glad I am not the only one beating the NetBSD drum around here.
I programmed on PASCAL on the Macintosh SE and other similar models in university. I look forward to seeing you fix that SCSI hard disk or replace it with a modern storage alternative. Great find for $20!!
Thanks!
EWW, I like it! 👍 Reminds me of Adriens’ MMMC .. that’s a compliment, not a slight. Keep up the great work! 🐦💙
Thanks. I hadn't thought of it that way, but yeah it's similar.
The best one was the Commodore 1702 color monitor, which would zap your fingertips right through the carrying handles set into the sides, even after turned off... Was close to dropping mine the first time.
The SE is very cool
Wow good deals. Where do you find these? I regularly go to garage sales, estate sales, antique stores, thrift shops, and I never find such cool stuff.
I have some local ewaste places I go to. I also did a video on where I find stuff.
@@RetroHackShack very cool. I’ll have to check that video out.
Awesome deals, can't beat those prices. Looked at some vintage laptops but have to say I too am more interesting in the pre-blueberry era of Mac computers. ;)
Lol I love that interview "This new model is more internally accessible.", "How is that useful to Mac users, they take them to dealers for upgrades and repairs.", "Uhhhhhhhh.". ^_^
Fun looking at the eMac, don't think I've seen one before. Wow that is a late computer desktop for a user not using folders, so messy. :S
Yeah. They kind of called him out on that one. 😊
What awesome machines! Hopefully you can either get the SE hard disk working, or fit a new drive replacement instead. (The newest "cool" SCSI replacement seems to be the ZuluSCSI from the people who brought you SCSI2SD)
I'll check it out. Thanks
I was working on my mother's television set that was downstairs. I was using a screwdriver, and once the shaft touched the chassis the circuit flipped and there was an arc. The spot is still on the screwdriver; I had forgotten to unplug the set. It was a write-off, anyway, since I didn't know what I was doing.
Yikes
A buddy of mine said the emac was the boobs for “uncle Steve’s” combiner robot he used to fight crime with.
I had an SE FDHD witch i really wish I had never gotten rid of.
I think we all feel better that way about systems we used to have.
I installed a classroom full of eMacs back in the day. I think we put OS X 1.0 Cheetah on them.
Nice. Did they hold up well?
@@RetroHackShack I left working at that school a short time later so I don't know! They seemed quite capable, from memory. Early OS X was the worst part. We had lots of problems copying files over an ethernet network. If they were more than a few dozen megabytes, the transfer would just fail randomly.
SIGNATURES! (jealous)
The Atari ST also used that 68000 CPU along with the Mac and Amiga-
Yes
20 dollars? Wowsers. Lucky.
For sure
Jam a Red Rock Technologies SCSI SSD drive in the SE.
Yeah. I have one in my other SE.
What was that at 31:00? What programme was that from?
Superfriends from the 70s.
@@RetroHackShack Ah, thank you.
show me on this computer screen where the internet hurt you!
Who would throw an eMac in the trash.
Boot the SE off the Blue SCSI for now
I will try a floppy first. I have a couple of blue scsis I want to try after that.
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Don't wipe it! This is computer history!
You should be fine as long as you don't use any paperclips..