Macintosh (SE series)

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The SE series was a set of several Macintoshes sold in the last 1980s. The SEs were much more expandable than their predecessors.

1 Macintosh SE
- 1.1 Features
- 1.2 Notes
2 Macintosh SE FDHD
3 Macintosh SE/30

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Macintosh SE

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Features

8 MHz 68000
800 KB floppy drive
20 MB SCSI Hard drive
9" internal B&W monitor
1 MB Ram (supports up to 4 MB)

To determine if your Mac SE supports 1.44 MB floppy disks, check the details on the back of the computer.

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Notes

PCs are unable to read 400/800 KB Mac disks, even with emulation software. This is due to the physical floppy drive mechanism, which could vary its speed in Macintosh computers (thus allowing for more data) but not in PCs, which read data at one speed. See this article at Wikipedia for more information.

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Macintosh SE FDHD

Essentially a Macintosh SE with a 1.4 MB SuperDrive and a 40 MB internal hard disk.

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Macintosh SE/30

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Overview

The Macintosh SE/30 ( January 19, 1989 to October 21, 1990) was an upgrade of the Macintosh SE design, with a unique name of the SE/30 due to Apple's naming system. The upgraded version should have been called the Mac SEx, however as this would have offended a fairly large number of people, the name was modified to SE/30.

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Features

Original 1.44 MB SuperDrive
Optional 30 MB Hard Drive
9" internal B&W monitor
First Mac to support more than 8 MB of RAM

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Notes

The SE/30 supports more than 8 MB of RAM, but with a patch. The ROM code is called '24-bit dirty' which limits the functionality of the computer compared to a '32-bit clean' ROM.

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