I agree, considering you can get a quadra 610 for $250 & a Q800 for a
few bucks more.  Hell, macworks is giving away the old II series
machines (w/ a nominal shipping charge of course) for FREE.

> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:07:45 -0500
> From: Rodney Hopkins <rhopkins@sunflower.com>
> Subject: Re: SE/30 cpu boosters?
> 
> 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.