Re: SE/30 Upgrades

2005-03-01 Thread Joshua Coombs
a DVI splitter cable... Dual head SE/30 G4... Joshua Coombs - Original Message - From: Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Compact Macs compact.macs@mail.maclaunch.com Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 7:59 PM Subject: Re: SE/30 Upgrades Luke Brennan wrote: I've now gone an evil route

Re: SE/30 Upgrades

2005-02-28 Thread Darren
Luke Brennan wrote: I've now gone an evil route with another SE/30 shell.. Shoehorned in a 9 monochrome POS monitor (SVGA) and a Mini-ITX motherboard.. running WinXP.. Hi Luke. Have a look round for the Axion model CV-1053 if your after a colour POS to fit. To keep the one eyed mac users happy,

Re: SE/30 Upgrades

2005-02-27 Thread Luke Brennan
.. running WinXP.. Luke -Original Message- From: Compact Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Sheehan Sent: Saturday, 26 February 2005 12:44 AM To: Compact Macs Subject: Re: SE/30 Upgrades Hi Thomas, You can try here: http://www.micromac.com/products/diimo_030.html But I

Re: SE/30 Upgrades

2005-02-27 Thread Bill Sheehan
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Sheehan Sent: Saturday, 26 February 2005 12:44 AM To: Compact Macs Subject: Re: SE/30 Upgrades Hi Thomas, You can try here: http://www.micromac.com/products/diimo_030.html But I wonder really if it's worth it. The fact of the matter is that even

Re: SE/30 Upgrades

2005-02-27 Thread Thomas
motherboard.. running WinXP.. Luke -Original Message- From: Compact Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Sheehan Sent: Saturday, 26 February 2005 12:44 AM To: Compact Macs Subject: Re: SE/30 Upgrades Hi Thomas, You can try here: http

Re: SE/30 Upgrades

2005-02-27 Thread Dave Huseby
At least have the decency to run Linux on that box. Dave I've now gone an evil route with another SE/30 shell.. Shoehorned in a 9 monochrome POS monitor (SVGA) and a Mini-ITX motherboard.. running WinXP.. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/. Support Low End Mac

Re: SE/30 Upgrades ...in general

2005-02-27 Thread Brandon Davis
All - Hmm. Maybe a little clarification is in order about the purpose of SE/30 upgrades? Long philosophical post follows ...sorry (there's always the delete key option, after all). There's a subtle difference going on when we speak on the subject of upgrading vintage hardware ...whether

Re: SE/30 Upgrades

2005-02-27 Thread Jack Gallemore
WinXP.. Luke -Original Message- From: Compact Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Sheehan Sent: Saturday, 26 February 2005 12:44 AM To: Compact Macs Subject: Re: SE/30 Upgrades Hi Thomas, You can try here: http://www.micromac.com/products/diimo_030.html But I wonder really

Re: SE/30 Upgrades ...in general

2005-02-27 Thread Jack Gallemore
, but they don't take up THAT much room. Great post and some great things to think on. Jack On Feb 27, 2005, at 9:32 PM, Brandon Davis wrote: All - Hmm. Maybe a little clarification is in order about the purpose of SE/30 upgrades? Long philosophical post follows ...sorry (there's always

Re: SE/30 Upgrades

2005-02-25 Thread Bill Sheehan
Hi Thomas, You can try here: http://www.micromac.com/products/diimo_030.html But I wonder really if it's worth it. The fact of the matter is that even if the CPU is twice as fast, it's still going to be a slow machine by modern standards. I'd bump up the memory and maybe install a

Re: SE/30 Upgrades

2005-02-25 Thread Jack Gallemore
I agree the CPU is the least of your worries. certainly can get 128MB of RAM at an affordable price. I've been working with a Daystar Turbo '040 which has been hit or miss. Other things you might want to do is use a more modern OS or even install Linux, but that would conversely slow

Re: SE/30 Upgrades

2005-02-25 Thread Brandon Davis
member Norman Jagnow) ...if you want to stick with b/w-grayscale, and stock OS applications. A lot of work, though. A. Lot. Of. Work. I have collected the parts, I haven't found the motivation. Yet. --- brandon davis --- -- sacramento, ca -- -- BEGIN THREAD -- RE: SE/30

SE/30 Upgrades

2005-02-24 Thread Thomas
Hi All, I just recently revived my SE/30 by replacing it's analog board and was wondering what would be some of the best ways I could upgrade the unit. The system is mostly stock with the exception of a newer HD and an Asante ethernet card. I have read about some accelerator cards for the SE/30

Mac SE/30 upgrades general questions

2003-01-15 Thread Mike Jen
Hi, I'm looking to upgrade my collection of Mac SE/30's. I currently have 5 of these little gems which I've upgraded to 128 meg / 2 gig 7200 RPM drives. Is there an economical way of boosting the speed? I've looked at the DiiMO 030 and cache options from Micromac but they seem pretty

Re: Mac SE/30 upgrades general questions

2003-01-15 Thread Gamba
Anyway of using cheaper IIsi options for the PDS slot? Yup, see http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/se30_pds_multiple.html is there another good browser out there that can handle Java and newer web sites fairly well? I wouldn't touch this one with a 12 foot pole. :-) Also is there a good FTP

Re: Mac SE/30 upgrades general questions

2003-01-15 Thread the pickle
At 07:57 -0800 on 15/01/03, Gamba wrote: is there another good browser out there that can handle Java and newer web sites fairly well? I wouldn't touch this one with a 12 foot pole. :-) Nor will any 68K browser ;) The last version of Flash for the 68K is far too old to be useful now and the