On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Abel Ortiz Monasterio <[email protected]> wrote: > You can go up to 7.5 with out much work, check how much ram you have if you > don't have enough it will run a bit slow. You can go up to 8 but that gets > complicated you have to do a bunch of upgrades and some hacks.
Actually, the SE/30 can take up to 16MB SIMMS, for a total RAM of 128MB! (!!!) The 16MB ones are rare, though; I've got a full complement of 4MB ones and have 32MB in my SE/30, which is still astonishing for a computer from the late 1980s. You'll need a control panel called Mode32 to use more than 8MB of RAM, but it's free and there's no problems with it. Oh, wait, sorry, I just reread this and realized you meant OS 8. Yeah, that's complicated; you (a) need to replace the ROM SIMM with one from a IIfx (or IIsi, but those are *really* rare), and then (b) you need to hack OS 8 to convince it to install on such a beast. I haven't done that, even though I have a IIsi SIMM in mine. The SE/30 is a really amazing machine; the best compact Mac ever made, honestly. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
