Follow-up: I now have a working SE30 with Daystar Powercache non-PDS accelerator (finally, after having the Daystar languishing on my shelf for two+ years for lack of a socketed-CPU logicboard to use with it).
Two people responded off-list to my WTB post to CM for a socketed CPU SE30 logicboard (and for some unknown reason, I never received the CM digest that would have included my original post, so if anyone responded publicly, I was and remain unaware of any public-only responses ...if anyone asked for details through the list, I didn't receive the post ...every once-in-awhile, a CM digest just doesn't arrive). John Snook replied immediately off-list to my plea, then suitably *modified* an SE30 logicboard by desoldering the existing CPU and soldering in a new socket, and sent it off ...and it has been churning happily along for a couple of days now, shortly after its arrival. Hal Meeks (sp? - sorry Hal, different system right now and so can't check) also offered a board, and I'll be sending him my [beloved] SE Superdrive with the Mobius 68030/33MHz 16MB w/external video accelerator board (yeah, an SE @ 33MHz w/FPU, 16MB of RAM *and* external video ...I think it must be about the fastest SE/SD on the planet) that I have used for many years, as soon as the sprained ankle heals up enough that I can get out-and-about again. If you can't find a socketed-CPU logicboard and need one, contact John! Thanks again, John! Because the Daystar Powercache leaves the PDS slot in the SE30 entirely free (and unobstructed), by replacing the existing CPU (the board itself is a kind of "L"-shaped affair, that lays on top of a mess of the logicboard bits, and routes around the SIMMs and the battery in a sort-of humped "L" shape), the use of a suitably modified Asante ethernet board with a right angle adapter should make it easily do-able to also plug in an external video board (or an Xceed internal gray-scale board) with NO modification to the SE30 case or chassis ...for three "essential" mod's (accelerator, NIC, and video card) in a tidy package. Currently the SE30 is at 33MHz, has 128MB of RAM, a IIfx ROM (yes, it has the cold boot video banding ...and because of the amount of RAM, the boot-from-cold takes a LONG time ...although warm restarts, and hard reboots take the "normal" amount of time), an Asante NIC, and a 9GBx7200 drive. It is reasonably fast (only slightly moreso then the SE/Mobius, about on a par with my old IIfx). (The RAM SIMMs were originally Q700 pulls, and were purchased - a long time ago, now - through eBay from the seller "sunguk" (AFAIR his name), whom I'd also made other purchases from.) My older Norton benchmark app indicates it's a little more then half as fast as a Q700 (about the same as the IIfx), if that is of interest to anyone. The machine is fully Internet capable (and will be more so when I finally get an internal gray-scale card). I'm using IE3.01 to browse at the moment (Netscape 2.0 crashes too much), set to *not* auto-load images, with the cache going to a RAM drive (so there's *no* drive churning when I surf to a website), and it is "fast enough" (and almost eerily quiet because of the cache going to the RAM drive). The SE30/33 is a perfectly adequate machine to download files with (especially through our broadband connection). I'm still working out the details of email (Claris eMail Lite works, but I can't seem to get the preferred Eudora to receive from our mail server, although it sends just fine). I've used the SE/SD daily for years for my writing chores, and now look forward to more years with the SE30/33 (someday with internal gray scale) pulling similar duty. (I just prefer writing on the tiny Macs to anything else I use; because of the satisfying clunk of the keys, and wonderful crisp black-on-white of the CRTs, I guess.) --- brandon davis --- -- sacramento, ca -- --------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:39:25 -0500 From: Bill Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: A heap 'o credit for a heap o' help <snip> A couple of our listers have heaped help of the right kind all over me. Let me explain. A while back, our fellow lister John Snook aka: "Snook, John R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted here that he had acquired a mixed pallet of our lovable Macs. He kindly offered them up free to any lister ... <snip> --------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:52:12 +0000 Subject: Re: IIfx ROM in SE/30 - Working! From: Phil Beesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <snip> The big advantage of the socketed SE/30 accelerator is that it leaves the PDS slot free for a graphics card and possibly an Asante ethernet card, if you're prepared to do some Gamba-esque juggling. <snip> -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. 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