Now, I certainly don’t claim to know much about Macs, but I’m pretty sure that the II was the first Macintosh to be offered without an integrated monitor. Introduced in 1987, it had a 68020-16mhz processor, and from 1mb to 20mb of memory, The Mac II also came with either a 40mb or 80mb hard drive, and either one or two 800k floppy drives. It was bigger than anything Apple had ever offered, too. Measuring 5.5″H x 18.7″W x 14.4″D, it weighed in at 24 pounds! That’s almost as much as the Kaypro, but then again, the Mac II was never meant to be portable.
This particular Macintosh II has a 40mb SCSI hard drive, 8mb of memory, and dual 800K floppies. It is running OS 7.1.1 Pro (read: 7-dot-old). Although I am a PC kind of guy, I really like this machine. As soon as I get a keyboard, mouse, and a monitor adapter, I am going to play around with it.
Who knows? Maybe I’ll become a regular Macintosh user.
Or not.
