1987 Mac SE

Unfortunately these are not chat rooms. People volunteer on a time-available basis and are your fellow users, not Apple employees. We cannot email you. Also it is a holiday weekend in the US so there are typically fewer responders

There are few people still fluent in "SE" but one may come along aft erht holiday.

All I remember about our SE/30 is that some suffered from defective Quantum Fireball hard drives of 40 and 80MB capacity:

• Symptom: Computer powers up but will not boot.
• Totally unofficial yet effective workaround: Tune the computer upside done and try booting. If you get a boot retire tothe computer to normal orientation and leave it running.
• Cause: bad bearings used by Quantum. Upending the computer takes a tiny bit of load off the lower platter bearing, enough to let it start.

for some stupid reason I keep getting denied access.

That could be from trying to use this as Chat. There are anti-pam measures in place that limit how many posts a minute one can make.

I got rushed before proofing. The workaround line should read:

"TURN the computer upside DOWN and try booting. If you get a boot RETURN the computer to normal orientation and leave it running."