13 Sep
2005
13 Sep
'05
1:53 a.m.
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:47:07 -0500
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/12/05, Scott Stevens <chenmel at
earthlink.net> wrote:
Yes, Photoshop on an SE/30 does seem a bit silly, with it's one-bit
'color' graphics capability.
Memory upgrades for older hardware is always problematic. I would love
to have more memory in my Powerbook 165c, but it's very proprietary. At
least if you get old enough, it becomes individual chips. Ironically,
it's easier to find the memory to upgrade my Sym 1 than it is to find
the memory to upgrade that Powerbook. (So my Sym 1 is 'torqued out' at,
I think, the full 8k)
The SE/30 is also nice
because you can put a lot more memory in it than any other 'classic'
Mac. 32 megs is trivial, and if you chase down 30 pin 16M SIMMs you
can put 128 Megs in an SE/30.
I've had an SE/30 for about 10 years (it was the first Mac I've owned
with a SuperDrive), but I've never been able to lay my hands on any 30
pin 16MB SIMMs... they are rarer than 72 pin 36-bit 32MB SIMMs for
sun4m machines (SPARCclassic, LX) - _those_ I've been able to track
down to max out an LX or two.
At least one doesn't _need_ 128MB on a 68K Mac running MacOS, unless
you are doing a lot of Photoshop work - then, I'd recommend a newer
machine anyway, one with color, like a Mac IIci w/cache card.