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#### Apple Macintosh 512ke

History and Trivia:
Introduced on 14th April 1986, the Macintosh 512ke was essentially a Macintosh 512k with
the same 128k ROMs and double-sided 800 KB internal floppy drive as the Mac Plus.
It was sold as a poor man's Macintosh. Also, any existing Macintosh 512k could be upgraded to 512ke.
(They could be upgraded to a Mac Plus, too, but this involved changing the motherboard.)
Since this model was discontinued a few months later (in August 1986), it may have just been
a way for Apple to get rid of its excess Macintosh 512 motherboard. Or maybe they realized that
512 kb of RAM were not enough to run real-world Macintosh programs.

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