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====== Apple Macintosh 512k Enhanced (1986) ======




===== Features =====

* CPU: Motorola MC 68000 7.83 MHz
* RAM: 512 kb
* ROM: 128 kb
* Text Modes: 40 chars x 32 lines bit-mapped pseudo-character mode
* Graphic Modes: 512 x 342 dots
* Colors: black & white 9" monitor
* Sound: 4 voices, 12 octave sound @ 22 kHz
* I/O Ports: Two serial (RS 232/422) for printer and modem, mouse, external floppy drive, sound out
* Keyboard: Full stroke 59-key
* Built In Media: One 800k 3.5" internal floppy drive
* OS: Macintosh System 1.0



===== History and Trivia =====

Introduced on 14th April 1986, the Macintosh 512ke was essentially a Macintosh 512k with the same 128k ROMs and double-sided 800 KB internal floppy drive as the Mac Plus.

It was sold as a poor man's Macintosh. Also, any existing Macintosh 512k could be upgraded to 512ke. (They could be upgraded to a Mac Plus, too, but this involved changing the motherboard.)

Since this model was discontinued a few months later (in August 1986), it may have just been a way for Apple to get rid of its excess Macintosh 512 motherboard. Or maybe they realized that 512 kb of RAM were not enough to run real-world Macintosh programs.



===== Links =====

* Applefritter (Excellent site about all Apple models,clones,prototypes,etc...) -- http://www.applefritter.com/
* Everything for the Mac -- http://www.everythingmac.com/
* Homepage of Gamba -- http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/index.html
* Mac512 -- http://www.mac512.com/Welcome/Welcome.html



===== Other Emulators =====

* Basilisk II -- http://basilisk.cebix.net/
* vMac -- http://www.leb.net/vmac/




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