Mac SE/30 project

Submitted by gnickers on January 5, 2007 - 11:02am

I picked up an SE/30 with an ethernet pds card at Value Pillage for $4.99 in perfect shape with no burn in, a 40mb hd and 8 mb ram. Installed 7.01 on the machine and it ran fine. Went to install the localtalk bridge software but it requires 7.5 so had to hook up a CD-ROM and do a minimal install. Added ram doubler to 'increase' the ram. Running quite snappy now. Hooked up the SE and the classic to localtalk to test and those system 6 machines could see the ethernet macs.

One problem when the chooser from the old machines tries to log into an OS9 fileserver it locks up with a divide overflow.

The solution was to install appleshare IP 6.3 on one of the spare beige G3's, now all the old macs, even the localtalk ones can see and login to that as a file server. This means i can now download disk images from the net and transfer them to the IIgs once i get it finished.

Next trip to the hardware store i need to get a Torx T15 screwdriver to pop the case. Want to bring the ram up to 32mb and install a 500mb hard drive.

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Submitted by cwsmith on January 5, 2007 - 11:10am.

Next trip to the hardware store i need to get a Torx T15 screwdriver to pop the case. Want to bring the ram up to 32mb and install a 500mb hard drive.

Sears has a T15 with a 6" shank -- reaches into the old classic Macs quite nicely.

The two T15 screws under the handle are in too deep for a shorter shank, and those "interchangeable bit" type screwdrivers are too wide to fit into those deep, narrow holes. Get thee hence to Sears and save thyself a lot of hassle.

Submitted by gnickers on January 16, 2007 - 7:15am.

Have a very very long handled torx that fits in the case. Have to pop it open next day off.