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In article <1956@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, ins_apw@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Philip Wong) writes:
> I also have a SE w/ std 1 mb and am wondering if it will be worth it to upgrade
> to SE/30.  I am planning to get the superdrive upgrade sometime, but is it
> really worth getting the /30 motherboard?

The main advantage that I see with the 030 motherboard is the ability to
support virtual memory when the new System 7.0 comes out; the SE cannot do
this.  As for other third-party upgrade paths, I don't know if the same holds
true.

> I also have a question about RAM.  The SE has 4 spaces for Ram chips.  It is
> currently filled with 4 256K ram chips.  So, in order to go up to 2mb, I need
> to buy 2 1mb Ram chips and throw away the 4 256k chips right?  Is there any
> way I can keep the 4 chips and maybe add extra megabytes onto like the se
> add on board.  Is this the same deal if I get an upgrade to 30?

With the SE, you do have 4 slots.  You can put the 2 new 1MB SIMMs in the first
two slots, removing the first two 256K chips.  This gives you a 2.5MB machine.
Then you just have to figure out what to do with the other two.  I have seen
various people offer to purchase them for about $25 a piece.

As for an SE/30, it has 8 slots.  Memory has to be installed in sets of 4 SIMMs,
so you must purchase 4MB, which would expand you to 5MB, or you could buy
4 256K chips and expand to 2MB.  The second option limits you if you ever want
to add more memory, because you would have to remove the 4 256K chips that you
added and replace them with 1MB chips.

-Michael

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