[XCSSA] looking for a Mac SE/30 ethernet card set

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

BTW Mike.. I looked int A/UX (Apple UNIX) that you are looking to run on that 
system... It's pretty sweet!
	http://www.applefritter.com/ui/aux/index.html
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX

I didn't even KNOW about this variant of AT&T UNIX!  I wonder if you can run 
the GNU utils along side the base OS tools? :)

Continuing our discussion from this afternoon, A/UX appears to have come out a 
few years before Amiga UNIX (AMIX) -- back around 1988!  However, it seems to 
have been based on SVR2.. while AMIGA-AMIX in 90/91 was based on SVR4 back 
when AT&T licensed SVR4 on several non AT&T computer systems (but Amiga being 
the first).  

I configured a couple of AmigaUX A3000 systems with 24bit graphics cards 
running X11 back in College Station TX (whoop!).  Pretty sweet!
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix

Those suckers were like $7k back then!  And you had to install AMIX from a 
bootable 150MiB tape drive no less!  Took hours, but was VERY cool to bring 
X11 up on an Amiga 3000. :)

But for A/UX, it looks like you need at least 16MiB of RAM minimum... probably 
want to kick it up to at least 24-32BiM or so. Especially if you're going to 
be doing running native Mac apps on its compatibility API.

BTW.. You DO have an MMU in that unit right?  You need an FPU and MMU.  If its 
not an LC 030 proc, then MMU should be built in.. but IIRC, you will still 
need to buy an FPU if your SE doesn't have one (to run A/UX).  Never mind.. 
it seems that it DOES have an integrated FPU!
	http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/articlepics/se30/image1.jpg

Very nice..

BTW... Poke around the net on docs for overclocking this sucker.. IIRC.. my 
Mac roommate had me help him with some soldering to rev up his SE/30 a 
bit. :) At least I think it was his SE... he had so many Macs.. hehe

Good luck man!  If you get it working.. bring it in for a demo!

Tweeks


On Tuesday 06 October 2009 03:05:01 pm X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio 
wrote:
> I'm looking to beg borrow or steal an internal ethernet card set for an
> old Macintosh SE/30 from anyone who might have one available or know
> where to find one.  I just got this cute little guy off eBay in good
> shape, and he's all ready to run NetBSD if I can just get him online.
>
> The item in question would probably look something like the image
> attached to this message (available here:
> http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/lovemacs_2073_99080156) if you've ever seen one.
>     Of course I've google'd and eBay'd for this thing with no luck yet.
> I also tried going through Herb Johnson of "Herb's Mac stuff"
> (http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/mac.html), whom I've done
> good business with before, but he is fresh out of these cards.
>
> On a related note, I'd also be interested in buying some extra RAM on
> 30-pin, non-parity SIMMs and perhaps one or two old 50-pin SCSI hard
> drives around 2 - 4 gigabytes, if anyone is interested in selling such
> classic upgrades :-)
>
> stay exotic my friends,
>
>     - Mike Roberts