Electric heating is the devil!
Yes, even the supposedly efficient ones are extremely expensive to run because the power co. here in NorCal (PG$E) likes to charge exorbitant rates for basically minimal use, which makes using almost any form of natural gas/electric heat or A/C impractically expensive to run for more than brief periods. So basically, our house is like a furnace during summer and a freezer during winter, unless we want to go broke.
And now SF has an ordinance requiring new construction to use exclusively electric appliances (I'm sure the state isn't far behind), which is fine, if you're a fancy tech executive or some such with a high 6-figure or 7-figure salary, but for all us common folk, it hurts quite badly (a yearly income of ~$200k after taxes is practically a minimum if you want to afford pretty much most of the good places in CA anymore, let alone elsewhere, and that's if you penny-pinch).
Anyway, enough of that!
@chillin If you decide to get a programmable SIMM, I'd be willing to help put a ROM on it since I have a SIMM programmers; any newly sold SIMM, be it a ROM-inator II, Garrett's Workshop or MACSIMM should work on it, as they're all, as far as I know, based on the original design as released by
@dougg3 about 10 years ago (he also designed the SIMM programmer I have).
But I am sure I do not want the Mac ROM-inator II, as I don't want to see someone else's idea of a cool boot splash
The ROM-inator II's idea of a "cool boot splash" is just a place holder and is completely optional. If you have a programmer (or access to the sevices of someone who does) and know how to modify the ROM image, you can put whatever you want on there. You can even put a stock SE/30 ROM image on it if you want to, but that would be kind of pointless....
Anyway, those who don't want all the bells and whistles (like bootable ROM disks and fancy boot splashes) generally put a stock IIsi ROM image on the SIMM so they can benefit from its 32-bit cleanliness (there exists a lightly modified copy that disables the power on RAM check, which can significantly reduce boot times if you have lots of RAM.
However, for the simplest, 100% stock experience, a stock ROM with MODE32 would probably be best, as it has the fewest variables and "Just Works."
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