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From: rdw89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Williams RD)
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Subject: Re: What's to become of the SE/30?
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Date: 27 Feb 91 08:34:02 GMT
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In <5551@trantor.harris-atd.com> epayne@x102a.ess.harris.com (payne edward 01471) writes:


>       I just read in todays MacWeek that there might be plans to release a
>68030 version of the Mac Classic.  If (Big if?!!?) this is true, does this
>mean that my new SE/30 moving out a la IIcx, II, Plus, etc.?  Opinions?
>Comments?  Thanks!

What the hell is the point of them doing that?  Reduce the expansion capability
of the machine to zero and the RAM upgrade path considerably?  The SE/30 is
sold as a classic machine with the extra performance needed to work with big
spreadsheets etc. => A business machine.  Now won't alot of those business
users want to be able to plug their SE/30 into large monitors at work, and have
the possibiblity of upgarding to 16+ Megs RAM in the next couple of years?

What Apple should do is revise the SE/30 with a 32 bit clean ROM, replace the
second ADB port with a sound input connector and give the internal screen a
proper 8bit greyscale performance.  If they'd done that a few months ago, I
might even have bought one!

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Department of Electronics and Computer Science,    |
Southampton University,                            |  EMAIL ADDRESS:
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Southampton.                                       |
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