He is right, I got mine at 128MB we no trouble at all, just using Mode 32 On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Raymond Ingles <sorceror...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Abel Ortiz Monasterio > <abel.or...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You can go up to 7.5 with out much work, check how much ram you have if > you > > don't have enough it will run a bit slow. You can go up to 8 but that > gets > > complicated you have to do a bunch of upgrades and some hacks. > > Actually, the SE/30 can take up to 16MB SIMMS, for a total RAM of > 128MB! (!!!) The 16MB ones are rare, though; I've got a full > complement of 4MB ones and have 32MB in my SE/30, which is still > astonishing for a computer from the late 1980s. You'll need a control > panel called Mode32 to use more than 8MB of RAM, but it's free and > there's no problems with it. > > Oh, wait, sorry, I just reread this and realized you meant OS 8. > Yeah, that's complicated; you (a) need to replace the ROM SIMM with > one from a IIfx (or IIsi, but those are *really* rare), and then (b) > you need to hack OS 8 to convince it to install on such a beast. I > haven't done that, even though I have a IIsi SIMM in mine. > > The SE/30 is a really amazing machine; the best compact Mac ever > made, honestly. > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of 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 leave this group, send email to > vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<vintage-macs%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of 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 leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/