Power Macintosh 7200

The two computer models of the Power Macintosh 7200 (code - name: " Catalyst " ) are personal computers from Apple and belonged to the Power Macintosh series. They were introduced as the successor of the previous 7100/66 (7100/66 AV) and 7100/80 (7100/80 AV) in 1995 in Cupertino (USA). Der7200/90 was sold in Japan with the same system profiles as the Power Macintosh 7215.

The 7200 were the smallest PCI computer from Apple and have been offered for around 2400-2700 DM. Due to the low price and the technical equipment of the 7200 in the buyer 's favor were also before the current PowerPC Performa 5200 and 6200 in their own ranks. The Power Macintosh 7200 was a cheap alternative to the same time introduced the Power Macintosh 7500 series, which appeared in the same housing provided. About these two computers at that time were the Power also simultaneously released Macintosh 8500 and the slightly older top model Power Macintosh 9500th This expensive 9500 heralded the first Mac is the change of company Apple of NuBus to PCI, with the 7200, 7500 and 8500 did Apple now make for Macintosh computers new technology cheaper a wider market. The company had to respond to the market, you had actually already missed the development to PCI, which at that time was long a standard feature on PCs.

As a second generation Mac with soldered on the motherboard 601 CPU, had the 7200 clock frequencies of 75-120 MHz, three PCI slots and four RAM slots, 1 MB of VRAM and three free slots to its extension. The 7200 was, desktop shipped in the U.S. only in Germany comes in a mini tower case. The main memory slots in 1995 were equipped with two modules of eight megabytes, so therefore there were still two more DIMMs for free. Although, theoretically, the possibility existed to represent 16.7 million colors at a 21-inch resolution, managed the 7200 offers the highest resolution with 16 bit color. This was due to a mistake in the video logic. Without additional geordertes VRAM video logic could at least drive 16-inch monitors with 32768 colors. The frame rate was always at 75 Hz, which was then at the height of the time.

Since 7200 some QuickDraw functions of the factory-installed graphics card had been speeded up separately with the Power Macintoshes, offered the included display options good performance. These offered the 7200/90 with its bus clock of 45 MHz significantly more than the former DOS and Windows95 computer with its default value of 33 MHz, so that the flow rate increased in this model again.

The Power Macintosh 7200 were shipped with the operating system MacOS 7.5.2.

Was praised at the time that quickly and easily open the housing of the 7200th to installing cards and to upgrade the video or main memory is now just a few handles. Compared to its predecessor, the Power Mac 7100, you had created another room for a 3.5 -inch full-height storage medium.

System profiles

Apple Power Macintosh 7200/75 ( the successor to the corresponding 7100 )

  • Construction period: August 1995 to March 1996
  • Main Processor: Motorola PPC 601
  • Storage: SCSI hard disk, CD- ROM drive, 3.5 "drive for 1.44 MB floppy, Zip drive may (2 x SCSI)
  • Level II Cache: up to 256KB
  • Bus rate: 37.5 MHz
  • Clock Speed: 75 MHz (601 subsequently can be increased with a larger Motorola PPC 120 MHz)
  • Max Memory: 512 MB ​​( 4 x 168- pin DIMM memory banks )
  • ROM Size: 4 MB
  • Graphics Memory: 1024 KB, expandable to 4 MB
  • Graphic resolution: yes on the memory configuration
  • Sound: 16- bit stereo system

Apple Power Macintosh 7200/90 ( the successor to the corresponding 7100 )

  • Construction period: August 1995 to May 1996
  • Main Processor: Motorola PPC 601
  • Storage: SCSI hard disk, CD- ROM drive, 3.5 "drive for 1.44 MB floppy, Zip drive may (2 x SCSI)
  • Level II Cache: up to 256KB
  • Bus rate: 45 MHz
  • Clock Speed: 90 MHz
  • Max Memory: 512 MB ​​( 4x 168- pin DIMM memory banks )
  • ROM Size: 4 MB
  • Video Memory: 1024 KB, expandable by three DIMM memory banks
  • Graphic resolution: yes on the memory configuration
  • Sound: 16- bit stereo system
  • Microcomputer
  • Computer from Apple
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