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BigBadBiologists BigBadBench | Did the IWM on this Mac SE get fried from plugging in an Apple II floppy drive? rebuilding a Mac SE @BigBadBench | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
I bought this Macintosh SE off of FB a few weeks ago for $40 because the seller showed a picture of the computer plugged in to an Apple 5.25" floppy drive. Supposedly this kills the IWM chip. Let's find out!

I have already retrobrighted the case:
youtube.com/shorts/eRxLuDwH4h4?si=JH3stFaOiX50DAq_

The floppy drives were some of the nastiest that I have ever seen:
https://bitbang.social/@BigBadBiologist/111131460581902690

We'll reassemble and test.

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Did the IWM on this Mac SE get fried from plugging in an Apple II floppy drive? rebuilding a Mac SE @BigBadBench

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