Although Apple Computer Inc has confirmed that a baby Macintosh is in the plan (CI No 1,317) but don’t look for it anytime soon: Macintosh News reckons that the thing has been held up by problems squeezing the system software into ROM, and that the sub-$1,500 machine won’t appear before early 1991; Mac News believes the machine will be built around an 8MHz version of the 16-bit Motorola 68000 and come with 1Mb memory and 1.4Mb SuperDrive – the floppy drive that reads MS-DOS disks as well as Mac format ones; it expects one expansion slot, two Apple Desktop Bus ports, a sound port, SCSI port, external drive port and built-in AppleTalk capability; separately, a colour version of the Macintosh SE is expected.
