Amaya Toman Late last week marked 31 years since Apple introduced its Macintosh SE/30, considered by many to be one of the best classic black and white compact Macs. In the late XNUMXs, this model was essentially the ideal computer, and users were enthusiastic about it.
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Some of the predecessors of this machine also received an entirely positive response, but they also had their indisputable partial shortcomings. “What I (and I think everyone who bought one of the first Macs) fell in love with wasn't the machine itself—it was ridiculously slow and underpowered. It was a romantic notion of a machine. And this romantic notion had to carry me through the reality of working on a 128K Macintosh," Douglas Adams, author of the iconic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, once said in relation to Apple's first computers.
The situation regarding the first computers from Apple improved significantly with the arrival of the Macintosh Plus two years after the debut of the original Macintosh, but many consider the arrival of the Macintosh SE/30 to be a real breakthrough. Users praised the elegance of its operating system as well as powerful hardware, and with this combination, the Macintosh SE/30 could boldly compete with other players in the market.
The Macintosh SE/30 featured a 16 MHz 68030 processor, and users could choose between a 40MB and 80MB hard drive, as well as 1MB or 4MB of RAM, expandable up to a - then incredible - 128MB. The Macintosh SE/30 demonstrated its real power and capabilities in 1991, when System 7 arrived. In the same year, Apple discontinued its production, but this model was successfully used in a number of companies, institutions and households for many more years.
Like other Apple products, the Macintosh SE/30 also starred in a number of television series and movies, and was allegedly the first Macintosh to appear in the apartment of the main character of the popular TV series Seinfeld - it was later replaced by the Powerbook Duo and the 20th Anniversary Macintosh.
Source: Cult of Mac, source of the opening photo: Wikipedia
