With the upgrade and appropriate software it can work with 3.5” DOS disks in addition to 800K and 1.4 MB Mac disks. The Mac II was introduced before Apple adopted SuperDrive floppies* and was never shipped with them a Mac II must be upgraded to support an FDHD (floppy drive, high density, 1.4 MB) drive and high density floppies. The Mac II was the first Mac that could be turned on using the power key on the keyboard. Running in 32-bit mode requires Mode32 (search the linked page for “mode32″). Although advertised as a 32-bit computer, the Mac II ROMs were “dirty,” containing some 24-bit code. Other video cards supported different resolutions and bit-depths. Using Apple’s video card, the Mac II supported 8-bit/256-color video at 640 x 480 pixels in an era where DOS users felt spoiled with 64-color EGA (640 x 350 pixels). Options include two 800K floppy drives and a hard drive as big as 5.25″. Rolled out in March 1987 along with the compact Mac SE, the Mac II was the first modular Mac – a revolutionary change in the Macintosh line (so revolutionary that it had to be kept secret from Steve Jobs, who loved the simplicity of all-in-one designs).
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