Apple Macintosh SE/30 w/Keyboard, Mouse w/ SD SCSI - Recapped & Awesome!

Description

Totally awesome one-owner SE/30.
This was purchased for me
from the Apple Company Store
as a Macintosh SE by a former college roomate, back when he was working at Apple and Steve Jobs wasn't. I'm pretty sure it was purchased in 1989. In March, 1992, I sent it to a different college roomate. He took it to Computerware on Lawrence next to Computer Literacy Bookstore for an upgrade to SE/30. The upgrade involved a new motherboard, new case front, new sticker on back, and probably some other stuff. He shipped it back to me from work. That shipping label is still on the box, along with UPS receipt for outbound shipping.
Both former roomates were named Jim B - with different last names.
I did everything with this computer: Classwork, accounting, page layouts for work, games...everything. When I moved on to another computer in about 1993, I packed this up in its box and put it in my closet. It followed me around, and was always in heated/air conditioned space.
Over the years, I accumulated an unacceptably large horde of macs that I'd purchased new. I've decided to thin the herd - down to an SE, a II, and a IIci.
I spent the last month working on this computer on and off. Getting to know and understand SCSI2HD "hard drives" took a bit of time. I couldn't figure out, for instance, why I couldn't make a disk image of an SD card, use the image to make another SD card, and boot the SE/30 from the duplicate. The answer turned out to be boot blocks.
Once I figured that out, I could make copies with a modern mac that would boot on the SE/30.
The insides have been thoroughly cleaned out (detailed?). The power supply, analog board, and motherboard have been professionally re-capped. I spent maybe 20 hours digging through all my old software, testing old programs on the SE/30, and assembling a useful collection of software that works - all on the hard drive of this machine. As noted in the video, there are three programs that don't work properly (two versions of MacDraw and Lode Runner). I included them nevertheless because I knew they'd be useful on a regular SE, and I didn't want to juggle multiple software bundles.
The SCSI2SD drive is installed at the expansion port, on a 3d-printed bracket. This facilitates external access to SD card and USB configuration port. I did not put the cover back on the expansion slot, because it's not easy to get off unless you have interior access. It is included.
The drive activity LED is connected and properly positioned so that visibility from exterior is maximized. If LED isn't positioned and oriented correctly, it's hard for user to see. Who wants a computer without at least one flashing light on it? Not me.
One undesirable quirk of the SCSI2SD card seems to relate to termination. The card has software-configurable termination. When power is interrupted at the wrong time, SCSI2SD seems to turn off termination. That leads to operator terror...when the machine won't boot. The solution was easy. I just turned off the bloody termination and installed a 2-drive scsi cable with SCSI2HD on the center position and a physical terminator on the end of the cable. I tried over and over to mess up the computer after that, by interrupting power during boot, disk activity, and calm. I never succeeded. I'm sure there are some limits to what it will tolerate. I suggest using programmer switch to initiate a restart in the event of a freeze, rather than power-cycling the computer. A stylish red 3d printed programmer switch is included.
The box includes the original foam inserts. They developed some cracks and breaks on the round-trip to California for upgrade. All the king's horses and all the king's men helped me put them back together. We used a combination of toothpicks and heavy-duty glue. It's sturdy and usable once again. It looks pretty good, but not perfect.
I have *some* of the original printed stuff that goes in the box. I'll sort that out in a day or two and post a list of box contents here.
I'm including a power-cord, keyboard, mouse, and keyboard curly cord. I probably have a power cord with an Apple logo on it. If I find that, I will include it. Otherwise, you'll get a beige ~6' cord.
Condition is excellent. It's not perfect. As you can see, there are a couple pen marks on it, some minor dings and scratches (especially on the back), and so forth. This computer was well cared for, but it was used and it is ~32 years old. So it has a few wrinkles on its face.
My baby will be double boxed with sufficient double-walled bubble wrap between Apple box and outside box. I will only ship via FedEx Ground, because they handle packages with care.
As for the pictures: The grey bands are artifacts from digital camera. I couldn't figure out how to photograph monitor without showing grey bands. Using a really slow shutter introduced other undesirable garbage.
That's about all I've got to say about that. I'll post video "tour" asap.