Macintosh SE FDHD

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Macintosh SE FDHD

The expandable Classic Mac with high density drives
• Included a 1440K double-sided high-density disk drive - you could have two internal (no internal hard drive) and one external!

If you are interested in upgrading the Mac SE, make sure you see the Premiere Issue of The Mac 512 User Group's Newsletter!

The Mac SE FDHD looked the same as a regular Mac SE.

The only real change from the Mac SE to the Mac SE FDHD was the 1.44MB floppy drives. Otherwise everything else is the same. This provided 4.2MB of floppy-based storage! Plus the drives could read/write MS-DOS (IBM) floppies!

For AppleShare use: System 6.0.x and Finder 6.1 are installed by the AppleShare Client 6.x Installer disk. This machine can be used as an AppleShare file server.

For telecommunications use: Can use 9600 baud modem or lower, anything higher may cause problems. Stock Macintosh SE can be placed on the Internet, with maxed 4MB of RAM memory upgrade.

Hard Drive use: Can use the Apple's HD20 - plugs into the floppy port. Stock Macintosh SE can use any SCSI hard drive (25 pin port on back). SCSI only - Use a 2:1 interleave.

Color use: Aura Systems created an external box which outputted color from a Macintosh SE. I looked into this at one point, very expensive, about $2500.

Quick answers to your questions here!

Apple official specs

System

Introduced: 8/1/89
Discontinued: 10/15/90
Floppy Size: 1.44MB
Internal HD: 20 - 40MB
Upgrade From: SE
Upgrade To: SE/30 (There are many accelerators available from www.micromac.com and www.sonnettech.com )
Form Factor: SE
Weight: 17 lbs.
Dimensions (in): 13.6 H x 9.69 W x 10.9 D

Logic Board

Main Processor: 8 MHz 68000
PMMU: none
FPU: none
Data Path: 8 MHz 16-bit
Secondary Processor: none
Slots: 1 SE PDS

Memory

Memory on Logic Board: none
RAM Range: 1MB to 4MB
RAM Slots: 4 30-pin SIMM
RAM Type: 120 ns 256K, 1MB SIMMs in groups of 2
Notes: This system cannot use two-chip 1MB SIMMs.

Video

Built-in Display: 9" monochrome CRT
VRAM Configuration: built-in CRT
VRAM Speed: n/a
VRAM Expansion: built in
Color Bit Depth by Screen Resolution:
512x384: 1-bit
(1-bit = Black & White, 2-bit = 4 colors, 4-bit = 16 colors, 8-bit = 256 colors, 16-bit = thousands, 24-bit = millions)
The maximum color depth listed for 640x870 is 8-bit, reflecting the capabilities of the Apple 15 inch Portrait Display
Notes: Screen size is 512x342.

Sound

Sound In: none
Sound Out: mono, 8-bit
Microphone Port: none

Ports

ADB: 2
Video: none
Floppy: DB-19
SCSI: DB-25
GeoPorts: none
Ethernet: none
Microphone Port Type: none
Ports: Printer, Modem, Speaker

Power

Max Watts: 100
Amps: 0.83
BTU per Hr: 342
Voltage: 90-270
Freq Range: 47-63 Hz
Battery Type: n/a

Software

Addressing Modes: 24-bit
Original System Software: 6.0.3
Original Enabler: none
ROM ID: $037A
ROM Version: 0
ROM Size: 256K
AppleTalk Version: 48
System Software Supported: 6.0.3 6.0.5 6.0.4 6.0.7 6.0.8 7.0 7.0.1 7.1 7.5 7.5.1 7.5.3 7.5.5

All technical information from www.apple.com

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		If you are interested in upgrading the Mac SE, make sure you see the Premiere Issue of The Mac 512 User Group's Newsletter!