At 10:42 PM 9/15/98 -0700, Monroe Williams typed:
>At 2:11 PM -0700 9/14/98, Andrew Brennan wrote:
>>   Anyone have a line on upgrades for an SE/30 these days?  I have a few
>>   at home (some SEs, as well) and am considering boosting them as long
>>   as NetBSD/mac68k would also benefit from the upgrade.
>
>I've been running a MicroMac "DiiMO" 50MHz '030 upgrade in my SE/30 for
>months now, and it works great.  
>
>It's currently priced at $250 with an FPU, $200 without:
>
>http://srch.outpost.com/search/productsearch.cfm?name=diimo+se%2F30
>
>(I have the one with FPU.)
>
>If you get one of these, you might want to take the useless "MicroMac"
>stickers off the tops of the CPU and FPU.  I had a scary moment a couple of
>weeks ago when said sticker fell off inside the case, landed on the 
>motherboard and caused the machine to crash, then reboot with error tones. 
>Fortunately, I removed the sticker and everything seems fine now.
>
>(BTW, I'm not affiliated with either MicroMac or Cyberian Outpost.)
>
>-- monroe

On the other hand, spending $250 on a machine that has been obsolete for at
least 4 years now and which can be obtained (the whole machine) for much
less than $200 used (I got mine for $2, no that's not a typo, it's actually
two dollars, a year ago) seems somewhat extreme.....

Call me cheap, but I'm not willing to spend $250 upgrading my SE/30.  Don't
get me wrong, I'd love to have the extra performance...but even if the
SE/30 were my primary machine, $250 to upgrade it seems steep.





Rodney Hopkins
rhopkins@sunflower.com