Scrounged through the "stack-0-Macs" in the garage and pulled together enough SIMMs to boost the SE/30 to 20mb. Updated the OS to 7.1, installed OT 1.1.1 and updated that to 1.1.2.
Booted fine (30 seconds to the desktop!). Installed Claris Emailer 1.1v3 as a test. Connected to AOL and pulled down messages at the rate of about 1 per second. Took longer to "file" them than to download them. Installed iCab and gave it a run. Loaded eBay pages like molasses in January (at the 45th parallel, north) but worked fine with no crashes. Fun machine, though most of the time it will sit in the corner of the kitchen as a "cookbook." Boots in about 1/20th of the time of the Classic II I had there (with OS 7.5.5). Ken --------------------- On 19/08/2002 19:12 I said: >This message written: Monday, 19 August 2002 18:57:33 PDT > >After fruitlessly searching my outlet haunts for nearly 3 years I have, >in the last two months obtained 3 SE/30s. With a couple of "spares" I am >now free to "experiment" with some interesting upgrades to one of these >machines. > >Have read (on LEM of course) that one could make the SE/30 "32 bit clean" >by installing the ROM from a IIsi. As luck would have it I happen to have >a stack of IIsi machines, one of which had a ROM SIMM. Another had a >MacCon I from Asante. > >Opened the SE/30, cleaned out the Coca-Cola spill which had done a bit of >corrosion on the very front of the board (the "test" connector edge ?) >and intalled the IIsi ROM. Success? At least it boots properly and lets >me choose "32 bit addressing" in the memory control panel. > >Decided to try to improve the anemic 5mb RAM so I installed 4 SIMMS from >one of the IIsi machines in place of 4 256k SIMMS. I thought they were >4mb SIMMs, but the SE/30 did NOT like them. Bad chimes. Swapped the IIsi >SIMMS to the first 4 rows, moving the 4 1mb SIMMS to the last 4 rows. >Still no go. Darn. > >Pulled the 68882 from the MacCON card and installed it. Boots fine, >though I haven't made it to the installation of the driver and tested it >with my in-house system yet. Would like to have more RAM for that. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
