Apple Macintosh SE | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1987-1990
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: Motorola 68000, 7.8 MHz
- RAM: 1 to 4 MB
- FDD: One or two Floppy disk (800 KB)
- HDD: 20 or 40 MB
- Audio: Speaker
- Connectors/Ports: Modem, speaker, parallel, two Apple Desktop Bus , two serial, expansion
- Case: Monitor type
- Monitor: Monochrome
- OS: Pilot
The Apple Macintosh SE features a Motorola 68000 processor at 7.8 MHz and memory of 1 up to 4MB. Equipped with up to two floppy disks at 800kB and an HDD of 20 or 40MB it runs with the operating system of the Pilot version.
Apple introduced to the world the original Macintosh personal computer through a SuperBowl commercial video, called “1984”. During the years the company has made great innovations and the Mac series had undergone transitions. Regarding the processors from the powerful Motorola 68000 transitioned to IBM ProwerPC processors, to Intel x86 and now to Apple Silicon ones. Performance and power efficiency have been praised by the critics.
The name Macintosh was conceived after, what else, founder’s favorite type of apple, literally the Canadian McIntosh red green apple. Each model introduced to consumers presented friendlier user experience, top of the art aesthetic design and powerful architecture.
That was just a snapshot on the presentation of the techmuseum series. Indulge more into the history. Continue reading more about the present model, the Apple Macintosh SE here.
PC.GR
The history of personal computers
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