IMO the only thing he’s missing is a SSD…
There is an individual in Japan with a fully-maxed out SE/30 with a socketed motherboard with a Diimo 50MHz 68030 accelerator, 2GB hard drive, supplemental PSU, 128MB RAM, (professionally done) tantalum capacitor recap on the mobo, quieter fan, IIfx ROM (32 bit clean, allows up to Mac OS 8.1), PDS splitter with a Ethernet card -AND- a Micron Xceed greyscale card. Not only that but 8x 16MB 30-pin SIMMs are expensive. Mainly it is to support a reasonable RAM disk as swap or working area (12 to 20MB). That machine has 32MB, which is way more than you need, as 10MB should cover 7.5.5 with the biggest memory hungry app you can find (like iCab). So you really do get a bargain these days for computing power.ġ28MB of RAM is possible, but not recommended. By today’s standards, that’s probably worth double that. More here: Ī top specced SE/30 with 4MB of RAM and an 80MB hard drive was approximately $5,500 back in the day. has a very cool machine on his hands here, and we’re pleased as punch his SE/30 could make its way over to our retro site. Even today it would be a capable home media server if it weren’t for its relatively slow networking capabilities and 2 Gigabyte file size (not volume size) limit. Keep in mind this computer is from an era when one or two Megabytes of RAM would be more than enough to get just about any job done. The SE/30 also made a fabulous server. If you’re wondering what makes the SE/30 so great, consider this: the SE/30 is able to address up to 128 MB of RAM. In the third picture, you can see playing Bolo, one of the first network-enabled games ever made, and still a very fun waste of time today. In the three pictures sent us (in the gallery after the break), you can see his extremely clean SE/30 booting into System 7 and loading up our retro site. A huge mac fan, connected his Powerbook Duo to an Ethernet adapter and loaded up our retro edition. Unfortunately, the naming convention didn’t hold but the Macintosh SE/30 is still the greatest computer Apple will ever build.Įarlier this month, sent in a submission for our retro edition successes. That same year, product designers at Apple created a more powerful version of the all-in-one Macintosh SE using the same CPU found in the IIx and IIcx. The IIcx – a compact version of the IIx, also with a 68030 – was introduced in 1989.
In 1988, Apple introduced the Macintosh IIx, an upgrade of the Mac II that included a Motorola 68030 CPU.