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...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...
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...
...today's students, the Happy Hacker recommends staying with the 512KE for simple wordprocessing. For other applications, such as data base programs or large compilers, the additional memory of the Plus and SE could be useful...
...running Switcher, a program that allows several different software packages to run at the same time. A ramdisk can also take advantage of the increased memory. Anyone requiring a color monitor or wanting to run MS-DOS programs will need to shell out the additional dollars for an SE...