Macintosh SE/30

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Macintosh SE/30

Manufacturer	Apple Computer
Introduced	January 19, 1989
Discontinued	October 21, 1991
Price	US$6500
CPU	Motorola 68030, 16 MHz
RAM	1 MiB, expandable to 128 MiB, 120 ns 30-pin SIMM
OS	System 6.0.3 - Mac OS 7.6

The Macintosh SE/30 is a personal computer that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1989 until 1991. It was the fastest and most expandable of the original black-and-white compact Macintosh series.

The SE/30 is essentially a Macintosh IIx in the same case as the Macintosh SE, with a black-and-white monitor and a single PDS slot (rather than the NuBus slots of the IIx) which supported third-party accelerators, network cards, or a display adapter. Although officially only able to support 8 MiB, the SE/30 could expand up to 128 MiB of RAM, and included a 40 or 80 MB hard drive. It was also the first compact Mac to include a 1.44 MB high density floppy disk drive as standard (late versions of the SE had one, but earlier versions did not). Conversion sets were sold to convert a regular SE to a SE/30. The SE would then have the exact same specs as an SE/30, with the difference only in the floppy drive if the SE had a 800k drive. The set included a new front to replace the SE front with that of an original SE/30.

Apple had indicated the presence of a 68030 processor by adding the letter "x" to a model's name, but when the Macintosh SE was updated to the 68030, this posed an awkward problem, as Apple was not willing to name their new computer the "Macintosh SEx". Thus, "SE/30" was the name chosen. Internally, code names like Green Jade and Fafnir were used.^{[citation needed]}

Although sold as a 32-bit computer, the SE/30 ROM, like the IIx ROM, included some 24-bit code, rendering the ROM "dirty". This limited the actual amount of memory that could be accessed to just 8 MiB. The solution was to use a program called MODE32 which enabled access to the extra memory (if installed). Alternatively it has been found that replacing the ROM SIMM with one from a Mac IIsi or Mac IIfx makes the SE/30 32-bit "clean" and thereby enables use of up to 128 MiB RAM.^{[citation needed]}

With some software hacks, it also becomes possible to run OS 8.0 or OS 8.1 (whereas the SE/30 normally can only run up to System 7.5.5. However, it has been confirmed that a stock SE/30 can also boot off a System 7.6 boot disk). Additionally, the SE/30 is able to run A/UX, Apple's older version of a Unix that was able to run Macintosh programs.

This machine was followed in 1991 by the Macintosh Classic II, a machine which was only 60% as fast as the SE/30, supported no more than 10 MiB of memory, and lacked an internal expansion slot. Apple at this time was de-emphasizing the compact, all-in-one nature of the Macintosh in favor of a more expandable, PC-like system architecture as seen in the Macintosh II and Quadra series.

1 Popular culture
2 Timeline of compact Macintosh models
3 See also
4 External links and references

[edit] Popular culture

In the NBC TV series Seinfeld, Jerry has an SE/30 sitting on his desk during the first seasons. This would be the first of many Macs to share the desk, including a PowerBook Duo and a Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.

Timeline of compact Macintosh models

See also: Timeline of Apple Macintosh models

[edit] See also

[edit] External links and references

v • d • e

Apple Model Navigation

Replaced	Current Model	Sucessor

none Macintosh SE (Macintosh IIx)	Macintosh SE/30	Macintosh Classic II Macintosh Classic

Preceding Family Model	January 19, 1989	Following Family Model

v • d • e Apple hardware before 1998

Apples	Apple I · Apple II family (II, II Plus, II Europlus, II J-Plus, IIe, IIc, IIGS, IIc Plus) · Apple III family (Apple III, III Plus)

Lisas	Lisa · Lisa 2/5 · Lisa 2/10

Macintosh desktops	Compact Macintosh family (128K, 512K, XL, Plus, 512Ke, SE, SE/30, SE FDHD, Classic, Classic II, Color Classic, Color Classic II) · Macintosh II family (II, IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx, IIsi, IIvi, IIvx) · LC family (LC, LC II, LC III, LC 475, LC III+, LC 520, LC 550, LC 575, LC 580, LC 630, 5200 LC, 5260 LC, 5300 LC, 5400 LC) · Performa family · Macintosh TV · Quadra family (700, 900, 950, 800, 840AV, 610, 650, 660AV, 605, 630) · Centris family* (610, 650, 660AV) · Power Macintosh family* (6100, 7100, 8100, 6200, 5200, 9500, 7200, 7500, 8500, 6300, 5260, 5300, 5400, 7600, 6400, 4400, 5500, 6500, 7300, 8600, 9600, G3) · 20^th Anniversary Mac

Laptops	Macintosh Portable · PowerBook family: (100 series (100, 140, 170, 145, 160, 180, 165c, 145B, 180c, 165, 150) · Duo series (210, 230, 250, 270c, 280, 280c, 2300c) · 500 series (520, 520c, 540, 540c, 550c) · 190 series (190, 190cs) · 5300 series (5300, 5300cs, 5300c, 5300ce) · 1400 series (1400c, 1400cs) · 3400c · 2400c · G3)

Servers	Workgroup Server (95, 60, 80, 6150, 8150, 9150, 7250, 8550, 7350, 9650) · Network Server (500, 700)

Other projects and accessories	300 Modem · 3.5" Drive · Apple Keyboard (Adjustable, Extended) · AppleFax · AppleCD · Disk II, IIc · Hard Disk 20, 20SC · IIe Card · Interactive Television Box · LocalTalk · Apple Mouse · Newton (MessagePad series (100, 110, 120, 130, 2000, 2100), eMate 300) · Paladin · Peripheral Cards (80-Column Text, Accelerators, Clocks, Processors, Serials) · Pippin · PowerCD · Printers (Color Printer, Dot Matrix Printer, ImageWriter, LaserWriter, Scribe Printer, SilenType, StyleWriter, Portable StyleWriter) · QuickTake (100, 150, 200)

See also: Apple hardware since 1998.