Second Class Macs

Second Class Macs

Macintosh Color Classic

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Dan Knight - 1998.01.10

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Second Class Macs are Apple's more compromised hardware designs. For the most part, they're not really bad - simply designs unable to work as well as they should have.

Colour ClassicProving you can't take a compromised design too far, Apple recycled the 32-bit CPU on a 16-bit bus architecture of the LC, LC II, and Classic II, this time in the first compact Mac with a color screen - also the first compact Mac since the SE/30 with an expansion slot.

Unlike the Classic II, which supported the standard compact Mac 1-bit 512 x 384 monitor, or the LC and LC II, which supported both a 512 x 384 color monitor and a standard 640 x 480 monitor, the Color Classic only supported a 512 x 384 color monitor. This made it incompatible with a fair bit of color software that expected the larger 640 x 480 screen, the same problem LC owners had with Apple's 12" color display. (Some hardware gurus found a way to modify the Color Classic to support 640 x 480 on the internal screen.)

Apple did introduce a few innovations with the Color Classic:

  • a built-in microphone
  • a readily accessible motherboard - just open the rear panel and slide out the board for upgrades.

One important option, especially for the education market, was the Apple II emulator for the PDS. On the down side, many accelerators for the PDS that work in the LC and/or LC II don't work properly in the Color Classic (for reviews, go to my main Color Classic page).

Still, it wasn't a really bad Mac, just a compromised one. P

Second Class Macs areretty much every one of its limitations was overcome by the Color Classic II (unfortunately, never marketed in the United States).  LEM

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