Apple Macintosh
A computer system manufactured by Apple Computer originally introduced in 1984. It comes in two distinct flavors, A 680x0 and later PowerPC based line of computers designed by Apple that ran a single tasking operating system called Finder (Later rechristened MacOS), and more recently a line of IBM PC compatible PC's that run MacOS X, an operating system derived from NeXTStep.
Models
Motorola 68000
- Macintosh (Jan 1984)
- Macintosh 512K (Sep 1984 - Apr 1986)
- Macintosh Plus (Jan 1986 - Oct 1990)
- Macintosh Classic (Oct 1990 - Sep 1992)
Motorola 68020
- Macintosh II (Mar 1987 - Jan 1990)
- Macintosh LC (Oct 1990 - Mar 1990)
Motorola 68030
- Macintosh IIx (1988 - Oct 1990)
- Macintosh IIcx (Mar 1989 - Mar 1991)
- Macintosh IIci (Sep 1989 - Feb 1993)
- Macintosh LC II (Mar 1992 - Mar 1993)
- Macintosh IIvx (Oct 1992 - Oct 1993)
- Macintosh LC III (Feb 1993 - Feb 1994)
Motorola 68040
- Macintosh Quadra 700 (Oct 1991 - Mar 1993)
- Macintosh Quadra 900 (Oct 1991 - May 1992)
- Macintosh Quadra 950 (Mar 1992 - Oct 1995)
- Macintosh Quadra 800 (Feb 1993 - Mar 1994)
- Macintosh Quadra 840AV (Jul 1993 - Jul 1994)
- Macintosh Quadra 610 (Oct 1993 - Jul 1994)
- Macintosh Quadra 650 (Oct 1993 - Sep 1994)
- Macintosh Quadra 660AV (Oct 1993 - Sep 1994)
- Macintosh Quadra 630 (Jul 1994 - Apr 1995)
Publications
- Steven Levy: Insanely Great - Viking Press 1994, ISBN 0-670-85244-9