pb3623
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Since I am not too shy about asking for help with my myriad Quadra issues, one of the things that has been going great is my SE/30 (edit - until last week!)
Here's my setup:
SE/30 recapped running System 7.5.3, Mac OS 8.1 and A/UX 3.1.1 (the latter requires me to disable the 040 card)
SCSI2SD (8 GB)
128 MB RAM ("new" 30-pin all purchased from MemoryX.com)
BMOW ROM-inator II SIMM w/ Turbo040 driver courtesy of @olePigeon
Bolle's "short" PDS adapter
Asanté MacCon SE/30
Daystar Digital Turbo040 @33 MHz
On my wish list:
Some soldering skills to put a right-angle adapter on my "tall" Bolle adapter so I can add my Pivot IIsi (or Pivot SE/30 but don't think that will fit) for external video
A working ROM image to include what I have plus the ROM disk driver (so, 68000 assembly skills)
I'm really hard-pressed to come up with anything else until one of the geniuses here builds that NuBus breakout box.
I took the pics a couple of weeks ago... I could leave it on for hours on end (1-bit B&W but I prefer After Dark, Star Trek:TNG) but literally, in the last few days I'm getting a slow death chime and the Simasimac. I'm hoping it's just a loose RAM SIMM or the very-finicky ROM SIMM needs to be shimmed up again. I'm not too worried unless it's something crazy like the power supply or logic board fuse.
If nothing else - I can look at the pictures and sigh!
Thanks for letting me share! This particular SE/30 is in great physical shape with very little discoloring and is really my favorite.
Here's my setup:
SE/30 recapped running System 7.5.3, Mac OS 8.1 and A/UX 3.1.1 (the latter requires me to disable the 040 card)
SCSI2SD (8 GB)
128 MB RAM ("new" 30-pin all purchased from MemoryX.com)
BMOW ROM-inator II SIMM w/ Turbo040 driver courtesy of @olePigeon
Bolle's "short" PDS adapter
Asanté MacCon SE/30
Daystar Digital Turbo040 @33 MHz
On my wish list:
Some soldering skills to put a right-angle adapter on my "tall" Bolle adapter so I can add my Pivot IIsi (or Pivot SE/30 but don't think that will fit) for external video
A working ROM image to include what I have plus the ROM disk driver (so, 68000 assembly skills)
I'm really hard-pressed to come up with anything else until one of the geniuses here builds that NuBus breakout box.
I took the pics a couple of weeks ago... I could leave it on for hours on end (1-bit B&W but I prefer After Dark, Star Trek:TNG) but literally, in the last few days I'm getting a slow death chime and the Simasimac. I'm hoping it's just a loose RAM SIMM or the very-finicky ROM SIMM needs to be shimmed up again. I'm not too worried unless it's something crazy like the power supply or logic board fuse.
If nothing else - I can look at the pictures and sigh!
Thanks for letting me share! This particular SE/30 is in great physical shape with very little discoloring and is really my favorite.