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Article: On Its Fifth Birthday, Macintosh Celebrates Corporate Acceptance
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 30, 1989
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The Apple Macintosh turned 5 this month and, as is to celebrate,
tens of thousands of Mac users descended on San Francisco for the
winter MacWorld Exposition. Apple used the occasion to unveil a new
machine.
The new Macintosh SE/30 looks just like the standard Mac SE, but
it's much faster. It sports a Motorola 68030 central processing unit
that operates about four times faster than the chip in the earlier
models. It also has a "math coprocessor" chip that, with some
programs, increases calculation speed by a factor of 100.
Like the older SE and Mac Plus, the machine has a compact design
consisting of a single unit that houses the disk drives, monitor and
all the electronics. Only the ...