Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!earleh
From: earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac Plus to SE/30
Message-ID: <58257@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 90 15:10:45 GMT
References: <58220@microsoft.UUCP> <1990Oct15.021938.3740@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Reply-To: earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON)
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In article <1990Oct15.021938.3740@d.cs.okstate.edu> minich@d.cs.okstate.edu
	(Robert Minich) writes:
>earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON):
>| What if I rip out the logic board in my Mac Plus, and stuff in an SE/30
>| logic board, an ADB keyboard, and an ADB mouse?  Anyone care to comment
>| on how this will work?
>
>  First, where would you get an SE/30 motherboard without the case? (!)
>I don't know about differences in the analog board and things, but I
>know that you'd have to do some work on the case to put the back on
>correctly since the ports are different. I assume this is just blue
>sky thinking...

     There is a mail order place advertising in this month's MacWorld
an SE/30 upgrade kit for $1399.  It's possible that if I looked around
I might dig one up for even less.  The new product announcement by Apple
could have the effect of driving the price of this item down far enough
to make this sort of brain transplant feasible.

     I was thinking of getting a 16 MHz 68030 accelerator plus 68882.
A quick check of magazine ads suggests the price for this would be in
the $700-$900 range.  An argument in favor of this approach is price.
An argument against is reduced compatibility, with no guarantee that
the result would have virtual memory capability under System 7.  The
SE/30 board, on the other hand, would be more expensive but should
run Apple system software through the next release, anyway.

     Anyone know of a source for SE/30 upgrade kits, cheap?

Earle Horton
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