Great points, JDW!
A comment worth pointing out about the SE/30--according to the fourth edition of the Macintosh Bible, Apple was rumored to have been thinking about re-releasing the SE/30. This would have been early-to-mid-1992. My guess is that a re-tooled SE/30 would have used a 25MHz '030, been 32-bit clean, and had a new ROM, probably 512K in size. Essentially, it would have been IIci power in a compact case. (I think all of us would have loved a machine like this--but what could we have called it? The SE/30 II? This may have been a possibility since Apple had a Classic II and LC II that year, not to mention a IIci, IIsi, IIfx, IIvx, and IIvi).
Also, it would be fun to imagine the iMac (any generation) under Sculley (and maybe also Jean-Louis Gassee). Would there be two slots on the machine? Would it have still used a fan? How much would it cost? Would it be more like a Classic, an SE, or a IIci? And even more importantly, would there be three distinct classes of Macs like there were in, say, early 1991? (This was when there was a low end/high end desktop in the entry-level, midrange, and high-end segment--the Classic/LC, SE/30 / IIsi, and IIci/IIfx--plus later in the year three models of laptop with a distinct entry level model, midrange model, and high end model).
Again, an excellent analysis, JDW!!!
A comment worth pointing out about the SE/30--according to the fourth edition of the Macintosh Bible, Apple was rumored to have been thinking about re-releasing the SE/30. This would have been early-to-mid-1992. My guess is that a re-tooled SE/30 would have used a 25MHz '030, been 32-bit clean, and had a new ROM, probably 512K in size. Essentially, it would have been IIci power in a compact case. (I think all of us would have loved a machine like this--but what could we have called it? The SE/30 II? This may have been a possibility since Apple had a Classic II and LC II that year, not to mention a IIci, IIsi, IIfx, IIvx, and IIvi).
Also, it would be fun to imagine the iMac (any generation) under Sculley (and maybe also Jean-Louis Gassee). Would there be two slots on the machine? Would it have still used a fan? How much would it cost? Would it be more like a Classic, an SE, or a IIci? And even more importantly, would there be three distinct classes of Macs like there were in, say, early 1991? (This was when there was a low end/high end desktop in the entry-level, midrange, and high-end segment--the Classic/LC, SE/30 / IIsi, and IIci/IIfx--plus later in the year three models of laptop with a distinct entry level model, midrange model, and high end model).
Again, an excellent analysis, JDW!!!