Word: macintoshes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Finally, at the head of the new family, is the Macintosh II, an extremely powerful personal computer/workstation that is similar to the IBM in its openly expandable design, but similar to the Macintosh in its primary operating system. The most exciting of the new features are the six expansion slots which will allow the Mac II to hook up with various peripherals such as full-page displays...
Although computer costs are decreasing, the new Macintosh models are not the Happy Hacker's idea of cheap. The Macintosh II starts at $3898 list, and the SE starts at $2898. Although Harvard's Technology Product Center remains secretive about their planned pricing policy, they will offer the new computers at a discount. The prices should be available within a week, and if they are anything like the present discounts, an SE could sell for around...