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Apple IIe Platinum and Macintosh Plus (Platinum)

Apple announced two products on 1 January 1987: Apple IIe Platinum and Macintosh Plus (Platinum). The day spanned Early computers and Mac.

It was the 1st of 3 dated moments the archive holds for 1987, 108 days after the previous one, 15 September 1986.

Apple IIe Platinum product photograph

Bilby · CC BY 3.0

What Apple announced

Apple IIe Platinum

Early computers · Apple II · discontinued 1 November 1993

The Apple IIe (styled as Apple //e) is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. It was released in January 1983 as the successor to the Apple II Plus. The e in the name stands for enhanced. It is the first Apple II with built-in lowercase, 80-column text support and 64K RAM standard, while reducing the total chip count from previous models by approximately 75%.

Improved expandability combined with the new features made for an attractive general-purpose machine to first-time computer shoppers. As the last surviving model of the Apple II computer line before discontinuation, and having been manufactured and sold for nearly 11 years with relatively few changes, the IIe was the longest-lived computer in Apple's history.

Macintosh Plus (Platinum)

Mac · Compact · discontinued 15 October 1990

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

Apple IIe Platinum product photograph
Apple IIe Platinum

Bilby · CC BY 3.0

Macintosh Plus (Platinum) product photograph
Macintosh Plus (Platinum)

Felix Winkelnkemper · CC BY 2.0

Also in 1987

Sources

  1. Apple IIe Platinum · Wikipedia
  2. Macintosh Plus (Platinum) · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.