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| An SE/30 Thought Experiment | |
| Posted by: Huxley on 2020-07-10 05:13:38 Daydreaming today about building THE ULTIMATE SE/30 got me wondering: is there any combination of upgrades and add-ons for the SE/30 which would result in having a CPU upgrade + internal greyscale + internal Ethernet? I feel like many upgraded SE/30's have one or (sometimes) two of those, but is having all three at once (without 'cheating' with something like a SCSI-to-Ethernet box) even possible? Hmmm... Huxley | |
| Posted by: Bolle on 2020-07-10 05:52:14 I do have an SE/30 in exactly that configuration. Internal MacCon Ethernet, Xceed grayscale and Micromac Carrera 040.  All my other SE/30s have internal ethernet cards together with an accelerator and a video card as well. You can stack the SE/30 DiiMO with a MacCon and a IIsi Pivot card for example. Another one has the socketed Daystar PowerCache and a MacCon with right angle PDS passthrough mod and a video card sitting on top of that. | |
Posted by: rplacd on 2020-07-10 07:38:48I do have an SE/30 in exactly that configuration.! is that running Mac OS 8? How'd you get that working? (A ROM swap maybe?) | |
| Posted by: Crutch on 2020-07-10 12:13:00 An SE/30 with an upgraded ROM can run OS 8. Accelerator strongly recommended. https://vintageapple.org/gamba2/os8_se30.html | |
Posted by: rplacd on 2020-07-11 07:24:59An SE/30 with an upgraded ROM can run OS 8. Accelerator strongly recommended.Hot damn, talking about pushing compact Macs to the limit... I imagine you'd need the upgraded ROM to max out the RAM... | |
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