30 Nov
2005
30 Nov
'05
3:19 p.m.
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:59:42 -0500
"James Fogg" <James at jdfogg.com> wrote:
Actually it isn't the last of the Classic Macs in a certain sense. Apple produced
several other inferior compact Mac machines that aren't nearly as expandable as the
SE/30. The Macintosh Classic is an example of this, if I'm not mistaken. The Classic
can't sport anywhere near as much RAM as the SE/30.
My favorite Mac personally is my PowerBook 165C, but that's just because it's so
nice and small and eminently useful for those occasions when I need a small footprint 68K
Mac for some purpose. And I have a box of SCSI-based ethernet interfaces that work with
it.
I'm very fond of my first SE/30, too, which is one I 'maxed out' with a lot of
RAM and a big SCSI drive, but it runs NetBSD.
James Fogg
wrote:
OK, neither do I (it's too late to argue). It is the last of the classic
Macs and has the greatest number of features and capabilities.
My interests stop at the "classic"
Macs, of which the SE30 is the
height of engineering achievement (in my opinion).
Why? I know a bit of the classic Mac engineering history
thanks to Andy's retro website/book, but I know nothing of the SE30.