- HistoryLink.org is the first encyclopedia of community history created expressly for the Internet. The free encyclopedia was the vision of local historian, author, and civic activist Walt Crowley (1947-2007), historian Paul Dorpat (1938-2026), and graphic designer Marie McCaffrey (b. 1951), Crowley’s business partner and wife…
- HistoryLink.org
HistoryLink.org is the continually evolving online encyclopedia of Washington state history. We provide a free, authoritative, and easily accessible reference for the benefit of all. With a few noted exceptions, all articles on this site are original works prepared exclusively for HistoryLink.org by staff historians, contract writers, volunteers, and consulting experts.
- Macintosh 512Ke (Wikipedia)
The Macintosh 512K enhanced (512Ke) was introduced in April 1986 as a cheaper alternative to the top-of-the-line Macintosh Plus, which had debuted three months previously. It is the same as the Macintosh 512K but includes the 800K disk drive and 128K of ROM used in the Macintosh Plus. The new ROM supported HFS used on 800K and larger disks and allowed the Hard Disk 20 to be used as a startup disk, doing away with the Hard Disk 20 Startup floppy required by the prior Macintosh 512K. Like its predecessors, the 512Ke has little room for expansion. Some companies did create memory upgrades to bring the machine up to 2 MB or more.