Closed Mac se/30 upgrades

[Robhalfordfan]

Hi all

I got a mac se/30 and it my first Mac I own and wondering what upgrades could added to it and if it easy to do and where would they found in uk for reasonable prices

 

[ratfink]

Fantastic - love these machines, really miss mine even though it was knackered and I eventually got rid of it due to lack of room.

There's plenty of stuff on the web about the SE/30 and the simpler Mac SE, eg The Mac SE Support Pages

http://www.ccadams.org/se/

and of course Low End Mac.

You can up the ram to 128mb if you can find the RAM [when I sold mine off I think someone was using it in a laser printer].

http://lowendmac.com/2016/memory-upgrades-mac-se30/

Also you can add a choice of cards to the internal slot, they still come up on ebay from time to time

Not too bad to do the internal upgrades, though seem to recall getting torn up a bit due to the tight space.

I also remember having a SCSI ribbon cable hanging out the back of mine to add a SCSI CDROM. I daresay there are proper external solutions; I probably only had the ribbon cable at the time.

There were also cards for external monitors - vertically-oriented A4 monitor and maybe a colour card?

Trouble with all this stuff is finding it of course, it's a lot more scarce than it was. There used to be a dealer in the US I bought bits from - olde-mac-milt - but looks like he doesn't still deal.

 

[mlc]

Hi all

I got a mac se/30 and it my first Mac I own and wondering what upgrades could added to it and if it easy to do and where would they found in uk for reasonable prices

Put http://www.knubbelmac.de/themen/einkaufsfuehrer.html into Google Translate It links to SCSI-to-micro-SD adapters (to replace hard discs), available directly in the UK (amigakit), Floppy Emus, USB2ADB converters and so on.

Unfortunately, in contrast to the Amiga 68k and Atari 68k world, no one in the Mac 68k world produces new accelerators or extension cards. AFAIK.

 

[Robhalfordfan]

thanks for help, will have a look and sorry to say but I got it mixed up, its the mac se with fdhd

 

[uridium]

There's a forum called m68kmla (Mac liberation army). Do a google search.

There is indeed CPU upgrades out there for /SE and /SE30's .. there's a huge number of other upgrades also.

 

[Robhalfordfan]

thanks will have will a look

 

[Robhalfordfan]

i have try make an account for that m68kmla website but it wont let me join as keeps saying Security Check is wrong when I have entered it right loads of time