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...their storage tapes for NSC memos and eventually turned over a stack of printouts nearly 4 ft. high. Explains Donn Parker, a computer security specialist at SRI International: "It is so ingrained in computer operators that they have to preserve data that if you tell them to erase a disk, the first thing they do is make a backup tape...
Apple has expanded its Macintosh family with two new machines, the Macintosh II and the Macintosh SE. They have stopped selling the Macintosh with 128K memory, and the entry level model is now the Macintosh 512KE (basically a Mac with 512K of memory and 800K disk drives...
Above the 512KE is the Macintosh Plus. The Mac Plus allows for an additional 1.5 megabytes of memory and also has an SCSI port which is convenient for hooking up hard disk drives and other peripherals...
...Macintosh SE (SE for Slightly Expanded or Somewhat Expensive) is a Macintosh Plus with a few extra features. The primary addition is a system expansion slot (SE slot). The SE also comes with two 800K internal disk drives (the Plus can only hold one internal drive). Additionally, the SE can handle an internal SCSI hard disk drive...
Both the Mac II and the SE will be able to be connected with color video monitors and IBM disk drives. But, the MS-DOS (ie. IBM) connection will cost upwards of a thousand dollars...