some_random_person
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I have kept an SE/30 for ages, made a Franken-Mac with a SE/30 good logic board in an SE chassis all salvaged from the trash. I worked at Apple then, put an ethernet card in this thing, installed NetBSD on it and ran it on the LAN as a toy server for years as se30.corp.apple.com (ran a NeXT slab next to it for years). Since it was in an SE chassis I penned in "/30" years ago. I actually have an SE//30 chassis now I could swap plastics with but I kind of like how hacked it is, honestly. I kept it running through the mid-2000s, but eventually stowed it away. I started back at Apple about a year ago (doing cryptography related things), and with the help of an old friend recapped the SE/30 and got it booting again. It's running with a MacRominator II in it, I've got a NIC in the PDS slot, and an external ZuluSCSI SD<->SCSI adapter. I put a low noise fan in it as well, which was an excellent upgrade.
I'd been wanting a programmers interrupt button, happily my mother-in-law gave me her old (needing work) SE/30 that also had a programmers interrupt button on it, so I just added it to my machine, feels a bit more complete now.
I mostly boot System 6.0.8 - from chime to a working desktop in 13.5 seconds. It boots into A/UX (slowly) and has a TCP/IP stack there, happily.
I'd been wanting a programmers interrupt button, happily my mother-in-law gave me her old (needing work) SE/30 that also had a programmers interrupt button on it, so I just added it to my machine, feels a bit more complete now.
I mostly boot System 6.0.8 - from chime to a working desktop in 13.5 seconds. It boots into A/UX (slowly) and has a TCP/IP stack there, happily.