upgrades for se/30

[macaddict]

what upgrades are available for the macintosh se/30 and where can I buy them? The upgrades I know about but do not know where to buy are 8 16mb dimms, a accelerator, and a dos card. What other upgrades were available for this system and where can I buy them? Thanks for the help.

 

[Paralel]

No DOS card for an SE/30

 

[Timbo]

Are they still taking orders?

http://www.micromac.com/products/diimo_030.html

 

[Unknown_K]

Depends what you are going to do with it. For me I tend to want an Ethernet card and 32MB of RAM plus external removable media (MO, tape drive, Jazz whatever). For OS 7.1 I never seem to need the 32MB of RAM I have so 128MB is a bit overkill (and I do have extra sets of 4x16MB 30 pin SIMMs on the shelf). SE/30's are not too slow for most software you would want to run on a low res B&W screen. If you have $100's burning a hole in your pocket then you could get a 68040 + greyscale adapter and whatnot.

The original SE is a bit slow so an accelerator is useful for those systems, but its a tradeoff between Ethernet and a CPU upgrade. One of my SE's has a 68030 upgrade (basically turned it into an SE/30) and external SCSI Ethernet, the other just has Ethernet.

Ebay seems to be the place for exotic upgrades, or you can ask around here in the wanted section.

 

[macaddict]

I think I am going to get 128mb of ram, a diimo 030 accelerator, a 4.3gb hdd, and external Ethernet.

 

[Byrd]

Get ready for a $400 - 500 bill then

 

[macaddict]

I have been saving up for it, so I can afford it now. Only question I have is whether micromac is still in business.

 

[Timbo]

I have been saving up for it, so I can afford it now. Only question I have is whether micromac is still in business.

I am curious to know too...

 

[ArmorAlley]

If you have the time, the patience and the money, here is the ultimate dream for the SE/30 — the SE/40:

http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/se30_pds_multiple.html

There is more useful info about the SE/30 on Gamba's site.

 

[Paralel]

MicroMac is no longer in business, the site is a zombie of a once great company.

Also, my ideal is the SE/30ecgs on Gamba's site, but with the accelerator on a socketed motherboard so it might all fit in the case. If that wouldn't work then the SE/30cgs with external Ethernet. Couldn't make a better compact than that if one tried.

 

[olePigeon]

MicroMac is not longer in business, and the current owner of the company does not have any more Diimo 030s.  Someone in Japan bought them all.

 

[Paralel]

and I can say with 100% certainty that the Japanese company that bought them has sold all of them.