The 13″ AppleColor High-Resolution Monitor was Apple’s first color display for the Macintosh. It was introduced with the Mac II in March 1987 and uses a 13″ Sony Trinitron CRT, which is curved horizontally but flat vertically.
Rolled out in March 1987 along with the compact Mac SE, the Mac II was the first modular Mac – a revolutionary change in the Macintosh line (so revolutionary that it had to be kept secret from Steve Jobs, who loved the simplicity of all-in-one designs). Options include two 800K floppy drives and a hard […]
Introduced along with the Mac II in March 1987, the SE came with 1 MB of RAM, one or two double-sided 800K floppies, and space to mount an internal SCSI hard drive (the second drive bay held either a hard drive or second floppy – no room for both, although that didn’t stop some people from […]
After a whole year without a new model (unless you count repackaging the Lisa 2 as the Macintosh XL), Apple announced the Macintosh Plus, the first expandable Macintosh, on January 16, 1986.
Apple replaced the Mac 512K with a model supporting double-sided 3.5″ disks, just like the Mac Plus. Unlike the Plus, the 512Ke used RAM chips rather than SIMMs, just like the 128K and 512K. This precluded upgrading RAM beyond 512 KB by simply plugging in higher capacity chips, although some companies did make memory upgrade […]
Introduced in January 1986, two years after the original Macintosh, the Mac Plus shipped with 1 MB of RAM, a new double-sided 800 KB floppy drive, and a built-in SCSI port (the first Mac so equipped). Not only was 1 MB more RAM than PC-class machines could handle, but the Plus could be expanded to 4 MB total […]
In January 1985, Apple announced the Macintosh XL, which was nothing more than a new name for the wildly unsuccessful Lisa 2. In April, Apple discontinued the model.
Although PC compatibility isn’t a big deal since Apple’s transition to Intel CPUs in 2006, there is a long history of PC emulation and DOS cards that let Macs run PC operating systems and software. Dayna’s MacCharlie was the first solution to the “problem” of PC compatibility.
On January 24, 1984, Apple announced the Macintosh to its Board of Directors – and to the world. The tiny computer was a radical departure from the large Lisa with it’s 12″ screen, just as Lisa itself had been a huge departure from the Apple II series and the growing family of MS-DOS computers on […]
Introduced to replace the Mac 128K in September 1984, the 512K had four times the RAM of the original Mac. This made it possible to work with larger files, more powerful software, and have more files open (running more than one application was still in the future, awaiting MultiFinder). There’s really not a lot more […]
Introduced on 24 January 1984, the Lisa 2 adopted the same 400 KB 3.5″ floppy drive as the simultaneously introduced Macintosh. It was available with the same 5 MB ProFile hard drive as the original Lisa or an internal 10 MB hard drive. Best of all for Lisa 1 owners, the Lisa 2 was available […]
Introduced in January 1984 (along with a revised Lisa), this Macintosh didn’t have a model number – it was simply the Macintosh. There was no name on the front. Early 128Ks simply said Macintosh on the back, while later ones were marked Macintosh 128K to distinguish them from the later Macintosh 512K. Equipped with 128 KB […]
Introduced in January 1983, Apple’s Lisa shipped that June. The first consumer computer with a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) display, a GUI (Graphical User Interface), and a mouse, its $10,000 price tag made it anything but successful. Only 11,000 original Lisas were sold. Lisa had a whopping 1 MB of RAM, […]
E-Machines Colorlink SX/2 The E-Machines Colorlink SX/2 card is a 12″ NuBus card compatible with 680×0-based NuBus Macs running up to System 7.5. Details The card provides standard QuickDraw acceleration. E-Machines Colorlink SX/t The E-Machines Colorlink SX/t is a 12″ NuBus card compatible with 680×0-based NuBus Macs running up to System 7.5. Details The card […]
The E-Machines DoubleColor LX is a 12″ NuBus card compatible with 680×0-based NuBus Macs running up to System 7.5. Details The card provides standard QuickDraw acceleration. Anyone with resolution or bit depth information with this card should e-mail me. Other Resources
The E-Machines DoubleColor SX is a 12″ NuBus card compatible with 680×0-based NuBus Macs running up to System 7.5.1. Its software is incompatible with System 7.5.3 and higher if loaded at boot, but it will work if used as a standalone application with up to Mac OS 7.6. Details The card provides standard QuickDraw acceleration […]
The E-Machines Futura LX is a 12″ NuBus card compatible with 680×0-based NuBus Macs running up to System 7.5. This card has 3MB VDRAM onboard. Details E-Machines Futura cards have a rotary switch for setting the resolution. The following is a list of switch settings. This setting is overridden when using a supported monitor with […]
The E-Machines Futura MX is a 12″ NuBus card compatible with 680×0-based NuBus Macs running up to System 7.5. This card has 3MB VDRAM onboard. Details The card provides standard QuickDraw acceleration and supports the following resolution/color combinations: 640 x 480 up to 24-bit 832 x 624 up to 24-bit 1024 x 768 (at 75 […]
The E-Machines Futura SX is a 12″ NuBus card compatible with 680×0-based NuBus Macs running up to Mac OS 9. This card has 1.5MB VDRAM onboard. Details The Futura SX provides standard QuickDraw acceleration and supports the following resolution/colour combinations: 640 x 480 up to 24-bit 832 x 624 up to 24-bit 1024 x 768 […]
The E-Machines Futura II LX is a 7″ NuBus card compatible with 68K- and PowerPC-based Macs running up to System 7.5. Details The card provides standard QuickDraw acceleration. Anyone with resolution or bit depth information for this card should contact me. E-Machines Futura cards have a rotary switch for setting the resolution. The following is […]
The E-Machines Futura II SX is a 7″ NuBus card compatible with 68K- and PowerPC-based Macs running up to System 8.1. Details The card provides standard QuickDraw acceleration and supports the following resolution/color combinations: 640 x 480 up to 24-bit 832 x 624 up to 24-bit 1024 x 768 (at 75 Hz) up to 8-bit […]
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This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon “A2” Samsung S5L8720 chip. Name: “Apple A2” MFG: Samsung Released: July 11th, 2008 Codename: APL0278 Part Number: S5L8720 Fabrication Process: 65-Nanometer Transistor Count: – CPU ISA: ARMv6 (32-Bit) . RAM Information: Memory Bus Width: 32-Bit Total channels: 1 Bit per channel: 32-Bit Memory […]
Online Resources Protect your notebook against loss, theft, data loss, and security breaches, Charles W Moore, ‘Book Value, 2009.08.25. 10 percent of laptops are lost or stolen every year. Tips on preventing theft, securing your data, and recovering from a lost, stolen, or broken notebook. Optimized Software Builds Bring Out the Best in Your Mac, […]
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Name Xeon X5675 Mac Model Mac Pro 2012 Codename Westmere-EP Fab. Size 32 nm Package Socket 1366 Base Freq. 3.066 GHz Turbo 3.466 GHz TDP 95 W PL2 – Cores 6 Threads 12 L1i Cache 32 KB Per Core L1d Cache 32 KB Per Core L1 Total 384 KB L2 Cache 256 KB Per Core […]
Name Xeon X5650 Mac Model Mac Pro 2012 Codename Westmere-EP Fab. Size 32 nm Package Socket 1366 Base Freq. 2.666 GHz Turbo 3.066 GHz TDP 95 W PL2 – Cores 6 Threads 12 L1i Cache 32 KB Per Core L1d Cache 32 KB Per Core L1 Total 384 KB L2 Cache 256 KB Per Core […]
Name Xeon X5570 Mac Model Xserve 2009, Mac Pro 2009 Codename Gainestown Fab. Size 45 nm Package Socket 1366 Base Freq. 2.933 GHz Turbo 3.333 GHz TDP 95 W PL2 – Cores 4 Threads 8 L1i Cache 32 KB Per Core L1d Cache 32 KB Per Core L1 Total 256 KB L2 Cache 256 KB […]