Storage: The SE can accommodate either one or two floppy drives, or a floppy drive and a hard drive. Video: The built-in 512 × 342 monochrome screen uses 21,888 bytes of main memory as video memory. The logic board has four 30-pin SIMM slots memory must be installed in pairs and must be 150 ns or faster. RAM: The SE came with 1 MB of RAM as standard, and is expandable to 4 MB. Processor: Motorola 68000, 8 MHz, with an 8 MHz system bus and a 16-bit data path
(The Macintosh II, which was announced at the same time but shipped a month later, includes System 4.1 and Finder 5.5.) The README file included with the installation disks for the SE and II is the first place Apple ever used the term "Macintosh System Software", and after 1998 these two versions were retroactively given the name "Macintosh System Software 2.0.1". The Macintosh SE shipped with System 4.0 and Finder 5.4 this version is specific to this computer. They are extremely rare and command a premium price for collectors. Instead the customer was offered the choice of the new ADB Apple Keyboard or the Apple Extended Keyboard.Īpple produced ten SEs with transparent cases as prototypes for promotional shots and employees. The SE and Macintosh II were the first Apple computers since the Apple I to be sold without a keyboard. Disk First Aid is included on the system disk.Additional fonts and kerning routines in the Toolbox ROM.In practice this results in a 10-20 percent performance improvement. 25 percent greater speed when accessing RAM, results in a lower percentage of CPU time being spent drawing the screen.Better reliability and longer life expectancy (15 years of continuous use) due to the addition of a cooling fan.Improved SCSI support, providing faster data throughput (double that of the Macintosh Plus) and a standard 50-pin internal SCSI connector.First Macintosh to support the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), previously only available on the Apple IIGS, for keyboard and mouse connections.First compact Macintosh that featured an expansion slot.
First compact Macintosh with an internal drive bay for a hard disk (originally 20 MB or 40 MB) or a second floppy drive.Its notable new features, compared to its similar predecessor, the Macintosh Plus, were: The "SE" is an initialism for "System Expansion". The Macintosh SE was introduced at the AppleWorld conference in Los Angeles on March 2, 1987. The Macintosh SE was replaced with the Macintosh Classic, a very similar model which retained the same central processing unit and form factor, but at a lower price point. The Macintosh SE was updated in August 1989 to include a SuperDrive, with this updated version being called the "Macintosh SE FDHD" and later the "Macintosh SE SuperDrive". An enhanced model, the SE/30, was introduced in January 1989 sales of the original SE continued. The SE retains the same Compact Macintosh form factor as the original Macintosh computer introduced three years earlier and uses the same design language used by the Macintosh II.
It marked a significant improvement on the Macintosh Plus design and was introduced by Apple at the same time as the Macintosh II. The Macintosh SE is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, from March 1987 to October 1990. 1 MB RAM, expandable to 4 MB (150 ns 30-pin SIMM)