My first computer was a
Macintosh SE/30 which I
broke,
fixed, and generally experimented with in every way I could think of. Except that I never considered
sexual intercourse with the machine. When I discovered the entry for "Macintosh SEx" in the index of my worn copy of the venerable
Macintosh Bible I
pawed through the pages to find what it might be. The story they had went something like this:
When
Apple upgraded the
chips in its machines back in
that time it usually modified the model name by adding one or two letters in some moderately cryptic way. This was before the dark days of Macintosh model names that included many different numbers. Back at this time, for example, when the
Motorola 68020 in the
Macintosh II was swapped out for the Motorola
68030, the new machine was
christened the
Macintosh IIx. However, when Apple upgraded the Motorla
68000 in the
Macintosh SE for a 68030, they backed down from tacking an '
x' onto the end of the new model name and settled for the un
orthodox '/
30' instead.