01-17-2019, 02:09 AM
https://www.cultofmac.com/462605/tiah-ma...ore-462605
January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus, its third Mac model and the first to be released after Steve Jobs was forced out of the company the previous year.
The Mac Plus is also the first Macintosh to include a SCSI port, the main way of attaching a Mac to other devices until Apple abandoned the tech on the iMac G3 upon Jobs’ return. The Mac Plus also boasted an expandable 1MB of RAM and a double-sided 800KB floppy drive.
The $2,600 Macintosh Plus (roughly $5,725 in today’s money) shipped two years after the original Macintosh debuted. In some ways, it was the first true sequel to the Mac. (The intermediate Macintosh 512K model was virtually identical to the original, with the exception of more built-in memory.)
The Mac Plus featured a few nifty innovations that made it the best Mac of its time. One of the biggest changes? A new design meant users could finally upgrade their Macs, something Apple embraced during the late 1980s and early 1990s. (Steve Jobs would never allow this type of DIY capability.)
Although the computer came with a not-insubstantial 1MB of RAM (the first Mac came with just 128K), the Mac Plus went even further. The new design let users easily expand to 4MB using socketed RAM boards.