Macintosh SE end of production date?

[unity]

The SE was discontinued in October of 1990. The 15th to be exact. I have one made in 1991, week 1. Not really surprising as I am sure they had orders to fill or something. The serial ends in B02 which is a little odd but the Mac serial decoder does I.D. the B02 as an SE, so it cant be that odd. Its made in the USA. F10181EB02

The decoder says it was the 9,296th one made that week. If so, they certainly were still pumping them out in decent numbers well after bing "discontinued".

Anyone have a younger one? Just trying to figure out how long they really ran them for. The SE/30 was still in production so less the faceplate/mobo, the rest of the parts were still very much in demand.

 

[BadGoldEagle]

You may be interested in this: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/26800-se30-mismatch-manufacturing-date/?fromsearch=1

Neal's SE/30 was made on the 18th week of 1992! His was made in ireland. Cork still produced SE/30s well into the nineties. I thought this was a European exception but your SE proved the contrary.

 

[BadGoldEagle]

I just saw you commented on that pther post.

So you probably knew about it.

Still it proves that some SEs and SE/30s are younger than we thought

 

[SE30_Neal]

Yeap i can confirm my se/30 is from 1992, not much online about these later built machines for asian or european markets, although apple did confirm my seriel number is correct for my model but wasnt able to confirm date as ireland where my se/30 came from doesnt hold the logs from that time period.

Sorry that doesnt help you much.

Neal

 

[Elfen]

Back in the 90's, many schools had to buy Macs (and Apples) from Apple Authorized dealers because there were no Apple Stores around at the time. Many of them still had SEs and SE\30s for sale as late as 1995, and the Classics a couple of years after that, because schools were ordering them at the time.

The question is, in order to sell them for that long, did Apple made so many that they were over stocked and were able to sell them for so long? And I believe that this was so not only with the SEs but with the LCs and Performas as well.

 

[unity]

Yeah, has to be the case. No so much a surplus parts thing after being discontinued, but a real production demand. I wonder at what price they sold for?

If I recall, there have been recent models like this. Certain iMacs and I think eMacs went school only at some point. But those were pretty public revealings given the internet. My guess is the older 68k stuff was only advertised through the purchasing channels.

 

[Scott Baret]

There was a sizable run of SE SuperDrives in January 1991. I've owned three made at that time.

I also know of LCIIs from 1994 with the 475 style lid and manual inject floppy. There's a picture floating around somewhere of one as proof that they do exist.

Consider the fact Apple produced parts for these machines for years. It was possible to make complete machines as a result. In fact, in 1998 (the year many parts were discontinued), it was theoretically possible to build, say, a new SE. All you had to do was order the parts and you've got yourself an SE you made yourself in 1998.