A real upgrade to a compact requires far more work, a little art and a lot of skill. One of the hardest mods to do well. I dont have access to the upgrade boards which I enviously read about here so they are not included.
I'm finding that out as we speak. I've wound up many a PC before, sometimes even using solder and creativity, but these compact macs, they are a real PITA, and thats why I like the challange. So far with what little I've done to my SE/30, I'm as proud of it as I am of my other boxen.
A challange is a good discription, short on space, nothing pre-molded, odd size screens in cases to nice to make errors on. By pre-molded I mean you cant just unclip a blank and slide a cd burner in. I'm still searching for a non-propriaty vga monitor to fit a classic and still retain a mac logic board. It could have been a pc by now, the first one may well be. No mac would be killed, the donors are waiting. Like the ppc compact upgrades, its been done before, unlike the ppc upgrades, I'm yet to see it done well.
I posed you a challenge regarding "a effective tool". http://networking.earthweb.com/netos/print.php/1107911 is one of many examples of what a 386 and a floppy drive can do minus a hdd, fan, (keyboard or monitor after setup).
http://www.x386.net for annother example. Why stop at routing when there is so much more a 386 is capible of. For that matter, so is a 68030. For awhile I was using the SE/30 as a mysql server backend for a php nuke clone on the 386. : )
Pressing the OT button soon I think ;) Routing is a little more successful to do without a hdd, monitor, mouse and keyboard, keeping the power down to a minimum. Its cheating a bit as a compact mac would struggle to hold the nics required, through-put is also a issuse with speeds above ASDL. SE/30 as a backend for a 386 :) We share a interest in *using* vintage hardware, a shame there's no real list to cater for such a discussion.
cheers
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