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Apple MACINTOSH SE 30	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1989	Motorola MC 68030	name image company company_name specs tabs emulators links comments related oc_id source MACINTOSH SE 30 /media/museum/photos/apple_mac_se30.jpg /companies/apple Apple label value NAME MACINTOSH SE 30 label value MANUFACTURER Apple label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR January 1989 label value END OF PRODUCTION 21th october 1990 label value CPU Motorola MC 68030 label value SPEED 15.77 MHz label value CO-PROCESSOR FPU: 16 MHz 68882 label value RAM 1 / 4 MB (up to 128 MB) + 256 bytes of PRAM label value VRAM 64 KB label value ROM 256 KB label value GRAPHIC MODES 512 x 342 label value COLORS monochrome (9'' black & white display) label value SOUND four stereo channels label value SIZE / WEIGHT 13.6'' x 9.6'' x 10.9'' / 19.5 lb label value I/O PORTS two serial RS232/422 ports; two ADB ports (keyboard, mouse), Stereo, Floppy disk connector, SCSI, 68030 Processor Direct Slot (to connect graphic cards, or network card) label value BUILT IN MEDIA One double sided 3.5'' disk drive (1,4 MB) label value OS MAC OS 6.0.3 or later versions label value POWER SUPPLY internal batteries: 3.6V lithium label value PRICE $4400 (USA, 1989) emulators links title url platform text Executor http://www.ardi.com/ Windows Demonstration version of a commercial software (MS DOS & Win95) title url platform text Gemulator http://www.emulators.com/ Windows A commercial Software which emulates the Atari ST/TT and the Mac 128/Plus/2 (Win95 / Win NT) title url platform text LisaEm http://lisa.sunder.net/ Windows Same as Apple lisa emulator for unix but ported to windows title url platform text PearPC http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ Windows PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. title url platform text SoftMac http://www.emulators.com/ Windows good 68K Emulator For Windows title url platform text Executor http://www.ardi.com/ Unix / Linux Demo version of a commercial software (Linux / NextStep) title url platform text vMac - The Virtual Macintosh Emulator Project http://www.leb.net/vmac/ Other platform title url platform text Basilisk II http://basilisk.cebix.net/ Multiplatform Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. Good emulator, runs on several platforms, even Amiga title url platform text Mini vMac http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/ Multiplatform Mini vMac, a spin off of the program vMac, emulates a Macintosh Plus and Macintosh SE. So far it works on Macintosh OS, Microsoft Windows, and the X Window System. title url text Apple History http://www.apple-history.com/ History of Apple computers with detail information about all of the computers to come out of Apple. title url text Applefritter http://www.applefritter.com Excellent site about all Apple models,clones,prototypes,etc... A must see ! title url text CMQ - Groupes d'usagers Apple http://www.cmq.qc.ca/Groupes.html (french) title url text CMQ - Groupes d'usagers Apple http://www.cmq.qc.ca/cmq.html (french) title url text Homepage of Gamba http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/index.html A lot of interesting Mac links, for example "How To Transfer Files From PC to MAC " title url text Jag's House http://www.jagshouse.com/ Lot of info on all non PowerMac models title url text Low End Mac http://www.lowendmac.com/compact/se30.shtml Excellent Mac SE/30 page title url text Low End Mac http://www.lowendmac.com Great site with a full catalog of ALL old macintoshes. title url text Mac Forums at MacForumz.com http://www.MacForumz.com Mac forums, a resource on the latest and greatest, as well as vintage, Macintosh hardware, software, and internet. Free registration. title url text MacDebate http://www.macdebate.com Macintosh discussion forum title url text The Vintage Mac Museum http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/ Nice dedicated website with tons of screenshots ! title url text Titlemax - Apple products https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/every-product-apple-has-made-so-far/ Nice graphic of every product Apple Has Made So Far (thanks Lily) title url text Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com Discussion of Macintosh software system author date text Joshua Carle (United States) Monday 6th June 2022 I have one with all working components as well as extra ram chips plus Mac bag to go with it all that I would sell to someone author date text Allison Divette Sunday 18th November 2012 I had an SE 30 growing up and it crashed. It did the arpeggio sound the doo doo doo doo author date text Scot K (NYC - USA) Friday 7th October 2011 I''d be interested in one of SE 30''s. that was my first PC $ when i upgraded many years ago, i didn''t have the foresight to hold onto it for nosatgia, plus, it would make a great prop for a project i am working on. skeating622@hotmail.com author date text SpringheelMac (Holloman AFB, NM USA) Friday 26th August 2011 Joe- If you are serious I would gladly take one or all of them off your hands. Would you like to arrange this? author date text Joe (Camarillo, CA USA) Wednesday 17th August 2011 I have a few of the APPLE SE 30 laying around. does anyone want them. FREE come get them. author date text Jamie Wednesday 24th November 2010 You can also replace the ROM SIMM with an IIfx/IIsi one. This enables 32-bit computing and 128MB of RAM author date text STu Friday 1st October 2010 Got one freshman year in 89 along with an ImageWriterII printer and still have the thing. Went through engineering school (the thing ran Mathmatica!!!) first and later loaded up SoftPC and wrote programs on it for the computer science degree. After that it got moved to the office at the internet startup (95) so we had at least one Mac to figure out how to get them online. If I had the room it would be running now with the old Pyro!!! screen saver instead of boxed away :-( author date text Jan (The Netherlands) Saturday 20th October 2007 Yes, a great little Mac!\ I have one with 8Mb, system 7.5.3 and a network card.\ It is the oldest computer in my network, but it can run a webbrowser and an e-mail cient! author date text Raps sucks (West Covina) Friday 9th March 2007 i used these at my school in the 1990"s these were great, stoled one of the new units and i have the SE right next to me .\ This to me is a bussiness computer author date text ? (?) Thursday 23rd November 2006 My school had these...\ Great Machines! author date text Cary Groneveldt (New York City) Saturday 15th April 2006 I am the absolutely proud owner of an APPLE "Macintosh SE/30" computer & it's the best boxmac APPLE Computer makes! Later!\ 8^ ] author date text Nate Arnold (USA) Tuesday 18th October 2005 This was certainly a classic. The upgrading was a pain. To upgrade the RAM on this macine you needed the following tools: A Sadering Gun (Its Ram didn't come in sticks at the time), a screwdriver, and a Parybar and Rubber Mallet (To help crack the case open). I still remeber the smell of saudered silicon (it lingers in the computer room) My father had to. I recently aquired one and am still trying to get it open to get the hard drive reconnected and working. author date text Aran Carrigan (USA) Friday 4th March 2005 People might think a kid would take these seriously, but I did! I fiddled around with it and upgraded it from the OS 7.0.1 to 7.5 and it still works like new! (I had to do something to it. It used to belong to my school.) I'd say it's best computer I own. author date text mark (Cincinnati) Tuesday 5th March 2002 this is one of the best computers ever made. my old boss at a college computer department bought one years ago from a woman who had been using it to run a design and publishing company; when he took it away, she cried. we used SE/30s as network testers because they are so portable and reliable. they are great for writers because you can tote them around all over and type wherever you please: on the porch, in your hotel, etc. I own two SE/30s. /museum/apple-lisa-lisa-2-mac-xl /museum/apple-macintosh /museum/apple-macintosh-color-classic /museum/apple-macintosh-ii /museum/apple-macintosh-plus /museum/apple-macintosh-portable /museum/apple-macintosh-se 162 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230608221539/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=162 2023-06-08

The Macintosh SE/30 was the successor to the Apple Macintosh SE and the Macintosh Plus. It ran under Mac OS 6.0.3 or A/UX (Apple’s Unix variant).

Apple had been naming all computers using the 68030 processers with an "x", such as the IIx and IIcx. When it came time to put the 68030 processor into the SE series, they prudently decided that calling it the Macintosh "SEx" wasn't the best marketing idea, so they settled on "SE 30".

Except for the 68030, one of its main differences with the old Mac SE was its separate video RAM (64 KB which could be accessed without slowing down CPU access to the RAM). Its sound system was a limited version of the Apple II GS sound system.

Although the SE-30 had a gray-scale monitor, the onboard video actually supported color. The cost of incorporating a 9" color CRT would have made the machine far too pricey, resulting in the the grayscale CRT. However, the idea of a color CRT would be taken up again with the Colour Classic.
The SE-30 also had an expansion slot that could support a variety of 3rd party cards, an example being a combination 10BaseT Ethernet / color video out card.

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Some information provided by Andrew Granger:
The SE/30 could address up to 128MB of RAM, the SE/30 was essentially a Mac IIx/Mac IIcx crammed into a Mac 128/512/Plus/SE-sized case. The one caveat to this maximum RAM configuration is that the ROMs were not "32-bit clean." The ROM implementation was only 24 bits wide, with the result that if you installed any more than 8MB into the SE/30, you wouldn't see any more than 8MB available, but the System Software listing in the "About this Macintosh..." menu item would be *huge* (this same situation happened on the Mac IIx and IIcx also). In order to address more than 8MB of RAM, you needed to either install Connectix's Mode32 extension, or (later) Apple's 32-bit Enabler extension. These extensions patched the ROM code to make the machine 32-bit clean, thus allowing you to have as much RAM as your heart desired, up to 128MB.

Video extension by Luca Rescigno:
SE/30s have been hacked to an even greater extent. There are many different things people have done, but one popular (if rare, and dangerous!) upgrade is to find a Micron XCeed graphics chip. This chip fits into the neck of the CRT, which is a dangerous place to work because of all the built up charge. When installed, it will allow the monochrome 512x384 display to use 256 grays at 640x480! In addition to the 128 MB RAM upgrades some crazy souls have added, others have found out how to install systems beyond 7.5.5 onto 68030 machines. I think the software is called BornAgain, and it lets you run 7.6, 8.0 and 8.1 on old 68030s, although I don't think 68030s can use the HFS+ filesystem introduced with 8.1.