Hello. Please excuse all of my ignorance here, but I really don't own any Macintosh computers. Recently, through a trade on Agora, I was able to procure a Macintosh SE/30. I've always liked the 'compact' Macs. This one in particular has system 7.5.5 installed, with a NIC and a 9.1 gig HDD, and 16 megs of RAM.
Anyway, so my understanding is that the SE/30 is a 1 bit black and white machine, although the monitor is capable of showing greyscale with the correct expansion cards.
Also, recently I have come across the opportunity to purchase an old webcam type device that is compatible with OS 7.5.5 and 4 megs of RAM.
Additionally, I am taking a black and white photography course this coming semester in college (starts on the 27th). A lot of my photographic equipment is really old, and none of it is digital (IMHO, B&W is still film's domain).
Putting all these thoughts together, I think there might be some photographic potential with this old SE/30 with a camera setup - I think given the price of the equipment it might be kind of neat to have the stuff anyway.
So my questions are twofold:
1) Where can I get a graphics card or chip to enable greyscale on the SE/30's monitor?
2) Which graphics cards are best?
3) What kind of graphics software is compatible with the 68030 CPU and 16 megs of RAM? Anything comparable to or as powerful as Photoshop (version 3.5 or so)?
Your thoughts are appreciated. I just bought KeyCAD for this computer. I'm not a big gamer, but I like to check out these old relics and see what computing back in the 80s was all about. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif -- Thanks!
Micron Xceed Color Card For Macbook Air
MICRON XCEED VIDEO CARD FOR USE ON MACINTOSH SE/30 COMPUTER Up for auction is a Micron Video Card for use on a Macintosh SE/30. I admit I really do not know much about it other than it came from a working SE/30 that had a faulty internal monitor (so I'm parting it out). The Micron XCEED Color 30 Video Card, particularly, is a special bit of computer paraphernalia that allows for grayscale on the internal monitor. One of these just sold for two grand. ↑ Apple Display Card 8.24 at LEM ↑ Radius PrecisionColor 8-XJ at LEM ↑ Radius Thunder IV GX at LEM ↑ VideoVision Q&A ↑ RasterOps ProColor 32 at LEM ↑ Village Tronic MacPicasso 320 at LEM ↑ Village Tronic MacPicasso 340 at LEM ↑ Micron Xceed Color 30 at LEM ↑ The Spectrum/8 LC works well in a LC475. Micron made four models of their Xceed color video cards for the Macintosh SE/30, and an optional adapter to display greyscale video on the SE/30's internal CRT. Micron also made ISA bus memory expansion boards for the IBM PC/AT and clones. Vintage Apple Macintosh Video Card Mac Micron XCEED N86-48 MGII16 NuBus. Sign in to check out Check out as guest. Adding to your cart. The item you've selected was not added to your cart. Add to Watchlist Unwatch. Ships from United States.