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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Cheap Accelerator for SE
Keywords: Accelerator, SE
Message-ID: <9079@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 25 Nov 89 01:51:07 GMT
References: <17248@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <17248@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> chang.woo@dartmouth.edu (Chang P.
Woo) writes:
>I am thinking of upgrading my SE to a faster machine and like to know
>what options are.
>
>1. I could sell my SE and buy a SE/30. (Surely, I would rather have IIci
>instead, but price is the main factor for me.)

You could also just get the motherboard swap upgrade kit for the SE to
the SE/30, which retails for $1939.30, but would be somewhat less with
the university discount.  This is more economical than a complete
trade, I'm sure.  (You might also want to get the FDHD drive upgrade,
which is $299.40 undiscounted.)  The SE/30 Upgrade Kit is part number
M0713, and the FDHD internal drive is M0247.  (You can only use the
FDHD drive with an upgraded SE -> SE/30, by the way; getting just an
FDHD for the SE costs more and is part number M6052.)

The SE/30 is a 16MHz 68030 processor, which could be expected to run
three or four times faster than an 8MHz 68000 like the standard SE.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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