The Macintosh SE/30
Released in January of 1989, The SE/30 was essentially a IIx inside an SE case. The second floppy feature of the SE was no longer offered in the SE/30, in favor of a built-in hard drive. The machine sold for $4,369.
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Apple
Specs On the
SE/30
SE/30 Specs
Upgrades
Check
out my Mac store for parts!
You'll need Apple's MODE32
if you want touse more than 8 megs of ram in the SE/30
Memory - download my Get
Your Compact Mac On the Web Tutorial
for info on memory and system upgrades.
Memory - d/l HyperCard stacks on how to install memory.
Color
Black
and white
You'll need HyperCard or HC
Player to view the stacks
You can buy 4 meg 30 pin simms on eBay for pennies. Eight of them
give you 32 megs which is mor than you'll ever need on the SE/30.
If you have an SE, you can buy an SE/30 motherboard on eBay for about
$30 and pop it into the SE. Of course you'll sitll have an 800k
floppy drive (unless you have an SE FDHD high density floppy).
If you can find 16 meg 30 pin simms, you can take your SE/30 to 128
megs.
Ethernet cards are cheap
these days.
Accelerators
Sonnet
accelerators
Ram Guide
for Macs
EN/SC - converts SCSI port to
ethernet.
You can add third party external monitors (color and grayscale) to
the SE/30. Try eBay
SE/30
repair page
Compute
User magazine article from 1994 on Mac II upgrade cards.
Power R Video
converter - lets you attach an
external monitor to the 128, 512, Plus, SE and SE/30
Repairs
7/1/02 - Interesting site on SE/30 motherboard repairs
In
the UK and looking for a
battery?
SE
support pages
Internet
Controlling
Mac OS X With A Mac Plus (or other Classic Mac)
Start here for
internet info on an SE/30
19.2 modem throughput (faster with loss of data).
Get Your
Compact Mac On the Web - everything
you need.
Worldshare
has free internet for 68k Macs - Mac Plus or up. No banners, no
proprietary software to download. (Requires minimum $10 donation to
the charity of your choice, also requires filling out 1 survey a
month. Not available in all cities).
A
Mac Plus/SE web server
Tips
For Browsing On Older Macs
Info
About Browsers On Older Macs
Maximum modem
throughput on a Mac Plus
Surf
the web through another Mac - Mac
Plus or up
I set up two Macs: (Plus
and Color
Classic) as web servers at the same
time.
NOTE: these servers are only up when I am online, typically 8 pm
to 2 am CST.
Surf
the web through another Mac - Mac
Plus or up
ZTerm
HOW-TO. Connect to Unix hosts or
Macs and PC's with this terminal emulation program.
Tips
on using Eudora on older Macs
Sue Korlan's Internet FAQ -
tips and tricks on getting online and staying online
Disc
image of system 6.0.8 with Eudora
1.3.1 - use email while booted off a
floppy
Hacks
Make
your own grayscale adaptor for the
SE/30 - run at 640x480 on a 7"
viewable screen.
Transparent
SE
Rare Clear SE
in QuickTime VR format.
Putting
a cdrom drive into an SE/30 - not recommended, but interesting
none the less...
Japanese
site with 3 cards in an SE/30.
Installing an
internal CD ROM drive into an SE/30 (WHY??)
Dual
PDS adaptor for SE/30 - use more than one card in and SE/30 at
the same time.
SE/30
typewriter
a PC in an SE/30
case (ugly but useful if you ike Winbloze).
Software
Start here for info on software
for the SE
Software that will work on 68000
Macs
Classic
Mac icons
SoftPC ans SoftAT allow you to emulate DOS PC's. Try your local
thrift stores.
Minix is a Unix variant that will run
great on teh SE/30 - no need to reformat your hard drive.
Run Linux and
BSD on your SE/30.
Another
Linux on SE/30 page.
Desktop
Manager. Ever switch between System
6.0x and 7.x on a Mac Plus and hate it whe it rebuilds the desktop?
Takes 5 min on my 520 meg drive. This will eliminate rebuilding the
desktop.
Pseud040
let's your 68020 and 030 Mac run 68040 applications.
Formatting
third party (non Apple) drives on a
Plus.
Init/CDEV
is an extensions manager for System 6 Macs.
WindowShade
- Gives you the popular window shade effect that came with 7.5 but it
works under 6.x and up.
Screen shot
of Ram Charger at work - 17 apps on
a Plus at once.
Uses
The SE/30 has color QuickDraw on the ROM so you can use grayscale
and color monitors with it. It will also run color QuickTime movies
in bitmapped black and white (requires QuickTime software).
Answering machine
Word Processing
Web server
Photo
scanner (this software requires
HyperCard)
Photoshop 1, 2
HTML
creator with HyperCard
Email
Internet
browsing (slow)
HyperCard programming for kids
Learn How To Type
Play old games
Learn
Unix
Play network games
Paint programs for kids
Animation creation with HyperCard, Director, VideoWorks (last two are
out of print)
Clock
Datase, mailing list, recipes with Filemaker 1-3, HyperCard
Other
Download Mac Minix
(it's now free!) and run it on your Plus or up, System 6 or up.
No need to reformat your hard drive.
Networking
a Mac Plus to a Linux Box - includes
details on how to instlal Linux on an SE/30.
Networking
A Plus to an iMac While Booted Off A
Floppy
Home
Automation Links (Mac Plus or
up)
Mac
Plus ROM bug info.
Networking
a Mac Plus and USB Macs.
Run
Unix on a Mac Plus while booted off
a floppy.
Scanning
With A Classic Mac - tips and
suggestions.
Using
A Zip Drive On A Mac Plus
Turning your dead Mac into a MacQuarium.
The creation
of the web was influenced by
HyperCard and the first white paper on the WWW was written on a Mac
SE.
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