on 9/17/01 10:07 AM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> It's amazing how much computer hardware from the 80's
>> and early 90's had ports and connectors "for future
>> expansion" or "for future use". About 99.9% of that
>> "future" stuff never happened.
>
> How true. I am reading a Swedish version of the Macintosh SE Technical
> Information booklet. (BTW, the accompanying user guide tells me that SE
> stands for "System Expandable" - I didn't know that.)
>
> The booklet states that, in my translation, "The SE bus is a card socket
> that enables installation of expansion cards to the microprocessor.
> (...) You can install expansion cards that enable you to use MS-DOS
> programs, connect peripherals, e. g. a 5.25 inch floppy drive, (...)"
Or how about the Macintosh Office - with the elusive File Server that never
shipped? That's gotta be a personal favorite of mine, seeing how Apple
advertised it so much and everything...
I know they came out with AppleShare later. But AppleShare wasn't what they
were originally planning to go with the Macintosh Office.
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