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“The first network hung up so the whole world could log on.”
“Expandable, snow-white, and quietly dignified — it retired so the Classic could carry on.”
The Macintosh SE was Apple's personal computer from March 1987 to October 1990, a significant step up from the Macintosh Plus thanks to its modular, expandable design. It kept the beloved Compact Macintosh form factor of the original Macintosh from three years earlier, but dressed it in the Snow White design language of the Macintosh II. Debuting alongside the Macintosh II, it was the machine for people who loved the
The SE evolved rather than faded: an enhanced SE/30 arrived in January 1989, and by August 1989 the SE gained a SuperDrive, becoming the Macintosh SE FDHD (later the Macintosh SE SuperDrive). In 1990 it was retired, replaced by the Macintosh Classic — a very similar model with the same central processing unit at a lower price point. Its functionality didn't die so much as move one seat down the table.
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“The first network hung up so the whole world could log on.”
“Gone in 1990, remembered longer.”
“It quadrupled memory capacity and quadrupled the future along with it.”