Macintosh Classic

The Macintosh Classic is a personal computer from Apple and was made 15 October 1990 to 14 September 1992. It was the first Apple Macintosh, which was sold for less than U.S. $ 1,000.

The Classic replaced the popular models Macintosh Plus and Macintosh SE. He decreed how these two models via a Motorola 68000 processor type, but was also the last model from Apple, in which it was used. In architecture, performance, and other characteristics, it is very similar to the SE, but could be made ​​cheaper because of renewals in manufacturing. He has, as the SE a monochrome 9 " CRT screen The one with a resolution of 512 × 342 pixels. The RAM was soldered on the motherboard and was a megabyte in size, but could be extended with a special expansion card up to 4 MB. Classic offered over the Macintosh Plus a few extensions and replaced this as Apple's low-end computer. He was up to 25 % faster, and included by default an Apple SuperDrive floppy disk drive.

He was an adaptation of Jerry and Terry Oyama's Manocks design of the Macintosh 128k. The Classic was released in two versions in the price range of just under $ 1,000 to $ 1.500. The reactions of the computer users were split; many were put out at the relatively slow processor and the lack of expansion options. The popular view was that it would be suitable only for word processing and spreadsheet. However, the favorable price and good availability of educational software the Classic made ​​it a popular computer for the education sector.