A Few Questions about the SE

[PackingTape]

I've recently become quite infatuated with the SE. I have a few questions before I run off and buy one though:

1. What is the best way to do e-mail on an SE?

2. Can the 68000 do open transport networking?

3. There are some 020/030 accelerators that have RAM slots. Do any of them let you go over 4 MB of RAM?

Thanks!

 

[LCGuy]

Open Transport requires at least a 68020 - it will not run on any 68000 based Mac. You have to stick with Classic Networking and MacTCP.

 

[Peter.Howard]

3. There are some 020/030 accelerators that have RAM slots. Do any of them let you go over 4 MB of RAM?

Get your hands on an SE/30, 030 processor, more RAM, quite a capable little machine under sysem 7

you can do video out in colour with an addon card

 

[H3NRY]

The 4MB limit is imposed by the SE's ROMs, so no accelerator fixes that. As mentioned, an SE30 board which uses Mac II ROMs allows more RAM. That's why every old Mac enthusiast has an SE30 around someplace.

 

[trag]

The 4MB limit is imposed by the SE's ROMs, so no accelerator fixes that. As mentioned, an SE30 board which uses Mac II ROMs allows more RAM. That's why every old Mac enthusiast has an SE30 around someplace.

Quite a few of those old accelerators for the Plus and SE, which had a 68030 with PMMU, claimed that they upped the maximum memory to 16 MB. So somehow they overcame or worked around the 4 MB limit imposed by the ROM.

They all came with a copy of Connectix's Virtual, so I've always suspected that they turned the memory beyond 4 MB into a RAM Disk, and then used Virtual to put Virtual Memory on the RAM Disk achieving about the same speed one would expect with a straightforward RAM expansion.

But I don't know if that is the actual scheme that they used. I never could afford one of the '030 based accelerators for my Plus. Or by the time I could, an entire IIci was a better deal.

 

[Unknown_K]

These days finding a working accelerator for those old compacts is fun, even if a faster machines is a better deal. I only have one SE with a CPU expansion, its an original SE with a 030/16 CPU + 25 Mhz FPU (Micromac Performer, works on a Plus/SE/Classic). I have 2 working SE/30's anyway but a sleeper SE is fun to have. I do have extra Sonnet 040's for a SE/30 but I am too cheap to get the adapter needed so they sit or get used in IIci machines.