"Market" for old macs?

The SE/30 is essentially the IIcx with the NuBus slots sawn off and a little (very little) video RAM and video circuitry added. It was a nice machine. 16 MHz 68030 with fully 32 bit wide data and address paths. Maximum RAM is 128 MB with eight 16MB 30 pin SIMMs. Color capability is in the ROM, but requires one of the somewhat rare video cards (SE/30 PDS slot) and goes to an external monitor. The follow up models which had similar form factors were far inferior. The Mac Classic really ought to be compared to the Mac Plus or Mac SE (somewhat superior to the former and inferior to the latter). The only thing the Classic had going for it is that Mac OS 6.03 is in the ROM, so you can boot with no available disk. It *should* have had the Mac Portable memory map, so that it could address 8 MB of RAM instead of only 4MB (24 bit address space) and a speed bump from 8 to 16 MHz, but Apple didn't do that. The Classic II was meant to be a follow up to the SE/30 but while it has a 16MHz 68030 its maximum RAM is 10 MB and its data path is only 16 bits wide. Bleah. The Color Classic has the same problem, though it does have a color screen. The Color Classic II was better with 33MHz 68030 and 32 bit data path. The Max RAM was still limited to only 36MB. However, that's a 72 pin SIMM socket with 4MB on the motherboard and Apple never acknowledged that any of their 72 pin RAM machines would address better than 32 MB per slot. Nevertheless many of their machines will work with 64MB or even 128 MB 72 pin SIMMs, so the CCII may have a much higher max RAM than reported by Apple. If that's the case, then the CCII was a worthy successor to the SE/30. Jeff Walther