Crucial Memory and SSD upgrades - 100% Compatibility Guaranteed for apple - FREE US Delivery. Feb 24, 2013 Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I am wondering if it will show a greyscale icon for an SE/30 with internal greyscale via a Micron Xceed rig. I think before the happy mac icon appears, the Xceed card is initialized since there is an extra click or two and the monitor seems to switch to the greyscale mode. NB6-48 NuBus 256 640 x 480 2.01. Card Bus Colors Resolution Ver. The Micron Xceed Color 30HR allows for higher resolutions and different frequencies than the non 'HR' model on the external monitor. There is no appreciable difference in the function of the internal grayscale capabilities. Any resolution above the its default 640x480 takes a big hit on color depth (4-bit). Micron Xceed Ultra Color Video Card Apple Macintosh Se-30 MICRON XCEED. Product Attributes: brand=micron, mpn=xceed, custom bundle=no, non-domestic product=no, modified item=no, type=gpu/graphics card, country/region of manufacture=united states, sku=139203, types=video card.
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The oldest Mac still in Apple’s current product line is the venerable SE/30. When the SE/30 first came out, people quickly became fond of it because of its combination of IIcx power and SE size. It also gained a few converts later on in its lifetime when people who owned the SE decided to increase power by upgrading the SE to the SE/30, which is what we did last year. So why has the SE/30 been able to hang on while the IIcx and IIx have fallen by the wayside? Primarily, the SE/30 offers an attractive combination of small size, good speed, and acceptable expandability despite its lack of NuBus slots. The main problems facing the SE/30 these days are the small screen and the 24-bit ROMs that will not let you use System 7.0 to its fullest. With System 7.0, the 24-bit ROMs limit you to 13 MB of RAM (that’s a maximum of 8 MB worth of DRAM SIMMs plus whatever virtual memory you need to have a total of 13 MB RAM – you probably wouldn’t want to use a system configured to a total of 13 MB unless 8 MB of that RAM was from real memory). So if you install eight 4 MB SIMMs, you’ll still only get 13 MB of usable RAM (that’s one reason for petitioning Apple for new ROMs – see below). For the moment, I’ll just address what can be done about the screen.
The most common expansion that an SE/30 will experience is the addition of an external monitor. The compact size of the SE case restricts the SE/30 to the 9' monitor, but the Processor Direct Slot (PDS) can hold a video card to drive an external monitor. The PDS has never been as popular as NuBus, so you won’t find as many choices of cards for the PDS, though several have appeared over the years. As far as video cards go, the most popular 8-bit card appears to be the Micron Xceed card (the one we have), which runs about $350 mail order and supports 640 x 480 color monitors. Micron also has an 8-bit card which supports 1024 x 768 monitors. Another popular card is the RasterOps 264/SE30 card, which costs a bit more than the Micron card but provides 24-bit color. SuperMac also may have a ColorCard SE/30, which is also slightly more expensive than the Micron Xceed, but I haven’t heard much about this card in quite some time, so it may no longer be in production. Finally, Nutmeg Systems has two SE/30 video cards as well ($400 for an 8-bit color card or $500 for a card to drive a full page display), though we have no specifics short of a brief ad in the MacConnection catalog. MacConnection also mentions several MegaGraphics card/large monitor combinations, but no one on the nets had said anything about these.
Once you have a video card, you need a monitor. The Apple 13' color monitor is always a good choice, though it tends to be more expensive than others. That’s the one we bought because of the educational discount. Other popular monitors include a Magnavox 13' color monitor (about $530 from MacConnection), the Sony 1304 for a bit more than $600 from various places, and the Seiko CM1445C (about $600 from MacAvenue). Those three monitors all use the same Sony Trinitron guts that Apple puts in its 13' color monitor, and thus should be fairly similar in picture quality. Another popular monitor is the NEC MacSync, but its lower price (about $500 from Mac’s Place) seems to be reflected in lower quality – people on the nets have been less pleased with the MacSync. Of course, a monitor is a subjective beast, so if it’s at all possible, use the monitor before buying or at least make sure you can return it if you don’t like it. Also keep in mind that installing a video card in an SE/30 is not a trivial job and you probably don’t want to mess with it unless you’re quite familiar with discharging monitors and connecting cables in irritatingly small places. It took me a while to install my Micron card, and while it wasn’t hard, it was a pain.
It’s relatively easy to add a larger color monitor, and the dual monitors are well worth the cost. I’m completely addicted to the dual monitor setup because it allows me to keep Remember?, Timeslips III, QuickMail, and ThoughtPattern open on the little monitor and use the large monitor for my primary work (i.e. writing TidBITS in Nisus :-)). You will notice that many programs are not smart about remembering their window positions or zooming to the correct monitor size, but these are minor drawbacks considering how much more productive you become when you have a lot of windows open at once.
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Also known as | 'Green Jade'[1] |
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Manufacturer | Apple Computer, Inc. |
Product family | Compact Macintosh |
Type | All-in-one |
Release date | January 19, 1989; 31 years ago |
Introductory price | US$4,369 (equivalent to $9,011 in 2019) |
Discontinued | October 21, 1991 |
Operating system | System 6.0.3 – System 7.5.5 With a 32-bit clean ROM upgrade, Mac OS 7.6 - Mac OS 8.1 |
CPU | Motorola 68030 @ 16 MHz |
Memory | 1 MB RAM (120 ns 30-pin SIMM), expandable to 128 MB |
Display | 9 inches (23 cm) monochrome, 512 × 342 |
Dimensions | Height: 13.6 inches (35 cm) Width: 9.6 inches (24 cm) Depth: 10.9 inches (28 cm) |
Mass | 19.5 pounds (8.8 kg) |
Predecessor | Macintosh SE |
Successor | Macintosh Classic II |
Related articles | Macintosh IIx |
The Macintosh SE/30 is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from January 1989 to October 1991. It is the fastest of the original black-and-white compact Macintosh series.
The SE/30 has a black-and-white monitor and a single Processor Direct Slot (rather than the NuBus slots of the IIx, with which the SE/30 shares a common architecture) which supported third-party accelerators, network cards, or a display adapter. Although officially only able to support 32 MB, the SE/30 could expand up to 128 MB of RAM (a significant amount of RAM at the time), and included a 40 or 80 MB hard drive. It was also the first compact Mac to include a 1.44 MB high density floppy disk drive as standard (late versions of the SE had one, but earlier versions did not). The power of the SE/30 was demonstrated by its use to produce the This Week newspaper, the first colour tabloid newspaper in the UK to use new, digital pre-press technology on a personal, desktop computer. In keeping with Apple's practice, from the Apple II+ until the Power Macintosh G3 was announced, a logic board upgrade was available to convert a regular SE to an SE/30. The SE would then have exactly the same specs as an SE/30, with the difference only in the floppy drive if the SE had an 800 KB drive. The set included a new front bezel to replace the original SE bezel with that of an SE/30.
In the naming scheme used at that time, Apple indicated the presence of a 68030 processor by adding the letter 'x' to a model's name. When the Macintosh SE was upgraded with the 68030 processor, this posed an awkward problem; Apple was not willing to name their new computer the 'Macintosh SEx'. Thus, 'SE/30' was the name chosen.[citation needed] Internally, code names such as Green Jade, Fafnir, and Roadrunner were used.[2]
This machine was followed in 1991 by the Macintosh Classic II, which, despite the same processor and clock speed, was only 60% as fast as the SE/30 due to its 16-bit data path,[3] supported no more than 10 MB of memory, lacked an internal expansion slot, and made the Motorola 68882 FPU an optional upgrade.
Hardware[edit]
Mainboard of the SE/30
Although it uses 32-bit instructions, the SE/30 ROM, like the IIx ROM, includes some code using 24-bit addressing, rendering the ROM '32-bit dirty'. This limited the actual amount of RAM that can be accessed to 8 MB under System 6.0.8.[1] A system extension called MODE32 enables access to installed extra memory under System 6.0.8. Under System 7.0 up to System 7.5.5 the SE/30 can use up to 128 MB of RAM. Alternatively, replacing the ROM SIMM with one from a Mac IIsi or Mac IIfx makes the SE/30 '32-bit-clean' and thereby enables use of up to 128 MB RAM and System 7.5 through OS 7.6.1.
A standard SE/30 can run up to System 7.5.5,[4] since Mac OS 7.6 requires a 32-bit-clean ROM.[5]
Additionally, the SE/30 can run A/UX, Apple's older version of a Unix that was able to run Macintosh programs.[6]
Though there was no official upgrade path for the SE/30, several third-party processor upgrades were available. A 68040 upgrade made it possible to run Mac OS 8.1, which extended the SE/30's productive life for many more years. The Micron Technology Xceed Gray-Scale 30 video card fit into the SE/30's Processor Direct Slot, enabling it to display greyscale video on its internal display, the only non-color compact Mac able to do so.[7][8]
Models[edit]
- Macintosh SE/30:[9] Available in multiple configurations.
- US$4,369 (1MB RAM, No hard disk)
- US$4,869 (1MB RAM, 40MB Hard disk)
- US$6,569 (4MB RAM, 80MB Hard disk)[10]
Reception[edit]
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Bruce F. Webster wrote in Macworld in March 1989 that the SE/30 did not 'break new ground. It does, however, establish Apple's commitment to the classic Mac product line, and it provides users with an Apple-supported alternative to either a small, slow Mac or a large, powerful one. More important, it fills a gap in the Macintosh family ... a new level of power and portability for the Macintosh community'.[11]
In a January 2009 Macworld feature commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh, three industry commentators – Adam C. Engst of TidBITS, John Gruber of Daring Fireball, and John Siracusa of Ars Technica – chose the SE/30 as their favorite Mac model of all time. 'Like any great Mac,' wrote Gruber, 'the SE/30 wasn't just a terrific system just when it debuted; it remained eminently usable for years to come. When I think of the original Mac era, the machine in my mind is the SE/30.'
The SE/30 remains popular with hobbyists, and has been described as “the best computer Apple will ever make,”[12] with used models selling for a significant premium relative to other machines of the era. Contemporary PDS upgrades allowed an SE/30’s internal monitor to be upgraded to support 256 shades of gray[13] (the only original-design Macintosh to support such an upgrade) or a 68040 processor, and the SE/30’s standard RAM limit of 128MB greatly exceeded even that of much later models such as the Color Classic and Macintosh LC II. In 2018, add-ons and software became available to add WiFi[12] and even streaming Spotify support[14] to the SE/30.
Popular culture[edit]
In the NBC TV series Seinfeld, Jerry has an SE/30 sitting on his desk during the first seasons. This would be the first of many Macs to occupy the desk, including a PowerBook Duo and a Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.
In the FX series It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, the Waitress is seen with a Macintosh SE/30 on her bedroom desk in the episode 'The Gang Gives Back'.
In the film Watchmen, Ozymandias has an all-black TEMPEST-shielded SE/30 on his desk.[15]
Timeline of compact Macintosh models
References[edit]
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- ^ abPogue, David; Schorr, Joseph (1999). MacWorld Mac Secrets, 5th Edition. IDG Books. pp. 461-462. ISBN0-7645-4040-8.
- ^Linzmayer, Owen W. (2004). Apple Confidential 2.0. No Starch Press. p. 48. ISBN1-59327-010-0.
- ^'Mac Classic II, a Compromised Mac'. Low End Mac. March 12, 2014.
- ^'25 Years of the Mac SE/30'. Low End Mac. January 19, 2014.
- ^'Lowendmac'.
Minimum requirements for Mac OS 7.6 included a 68030 CPU, '32-bit clean' ROMs, 8 MB of RAM (12-16 MB recommended), and 70 MB of hard drive space. It no longer supported 24-bit addressing or classic Mac networking (it used OpenTransport exclusively).
- ^'A/UX FAQ'.
A/UX 3.0 works on the Mac II (with PMMU or 68030 upgrade with FDHD ROM's installed), IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx, SE/30, IIsi (with 68882 chip) and the Quadra 700/900/950 computers.
- ^'SE/30 GrayScale ScreenShots'. Archived from the original on June 12, 2002. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
- ^'Micron Xceed for Mac SE/30'. Low End Mac. September 2, 1999.
- ^'Macintosh SE/30: Technical Specifications'. Apple.
- ^'InfoWorld March 27, 1989'.
- ^Webster, Bruce F. (March 1989). 'The Mac SE Turns 030'. Macworld. pp. 112–117. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- ^ abBy (September 26, 2018). 'Apple's Best Computer Gets WiFi'. Hackaday. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
- ^'Micron Xceed for Mac SE/30'. Low End Mac. September 2, 1999. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
- ^Coward, Cameron (December 26, 2018). 'A Macintosh SE/30 Spotify Music Player'. Medium. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
- ^Diaz, Jesus (March 6, 2009). 'Watchmen's Old School Macintosh SE/30'. Gizmodo. Archived from the original on July 2, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
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