Thanks Greg! This is my first Mac. What a way to start, eh? The student that took it apart says he has some SIMs up in his attic that should work.
If we cannot afford to take care of our veterans, then we should stop making them. David C. Wilker Jr. USAF (RET) ----- Original Message ----- From: Gregg Eshelman To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:50 PM Subject: Re: Tape Backup 40SC --- On Tue, 3/17/09, Mr. David C. Wilker Jr. <wilkerbeas...@charter.net> wrote: > Hello again! > Dave here. I took my SE/30 apart tonight. Well, actually > one of my students > did. He used to work for Mac back in the late 80s- early > 90s, and knows > quite a bit about the little monsters. As there were > horizontal black lines > on the screen, he told me that was bad memory. So we > started checking on line for more info. Remove and reinstall the ROM and RAM a couple of times. That often clears up the stripes on the screen because it cleans the SIMM contacts. You can put up to 128 meg RAM in an SE/30 using 16meg SIMMs. Very useful website for the old Macs. http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/index.html If you want to run System 6 on it with more than 8 megs RAM, Connectix had some extensions for that. MAXIMA enabled it to address up to 14 megs in 24bit mode in System 7. OPTIMA/32 and OPTIMA/128 enabled 32bit mode support in System 6, for 32 and 128 meg RAM. VIRTUAL added virtual memory for System 6 and for System 7, on Macs where Apple's System 7 VM wouldn't work. VIRTUAL also used less hard drive space than Apple's VM, which uses a minimum of the physical RAM plus 1 meg. Anyone know where to download these old Connectix extensions? Connectix quit selling them shortly after the release of the IIci and System 7. Software developers quickly abandoned System 6 once System 7.0 was released. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vintage-macs-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
