???? – 1992retired
Apple IIGS
“Graphics and Sound, grace and speed: the last and loveliest of the Apple II line.”
“The little beige tank that ran out of room, not out of respect.”
Sold from January 1989 to October 1991, the Macintosh SE/30 was the fastest of the original compact black-and-white Macs, and people loved it for the muscle packed into that familiar little box. It could expand to a whopping 128 MB of RAM, carried a 40 or 80 MB hard drive, and was the first compact Mac with a 1.44 MB high density floppy drive as standard. Its single Processor Direct Slot welcomed third-party accelera
It retired in 1991, but not before punching well above its weight: an SE/30 helped produce This Week, the first UK colour tabloid to use digital pre-press on a personal desktop computer. In Apple's long tradition of upgrade paths, a US$1,699 logic board could even turn a regular SE into a full-fledged SE/30. It left behind a reputation as the compact Mac that did everything asked of it, and then some.
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“Graphics and Sound, grace and speed: the last and loveliest of the Apple II line.”
“Sixteen shades of grey, and every one of them beloved.”
“It dialed up one last time and nobody picked up”