Apple Macintosh Portable | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1989-1991
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: Motorola 68000, 16 MHz
- RAM: 1 MB
- FDD: Floppy disk 1.44 MB
- HDD: 40 MB
- Audio: Stereo
- Connectors/Ports: Parallel , serial , Apple Desktop Bus
- Case: Portable type
- Monitor: Monochrome
- OS: MAC OS 6.0.4.
The Apple Macintosh Portable features a Motorola 68000 processor at 16 MHz and memory of 1MB. Equipped with a floppy disk of 3.5” at 1.44MB and an HDD of 40MB it runs with the operating system of the MAC OS 6.0.4 version.
Apple introduced to the world the original Macintosh personal computer through a SuperBowl commercial video, called “1984”. During the years the company has made great innovations and the Mac series had undergone transitions. Regarding the processors from the powerful Motorola 68000 transitioned to IBM ProwerPC processors, to Intel x86 and now to Apple Silicon ones. Performance and power efficiency have been praised by the critics.
The name Macintosh was conceived after, what else, founder’s favorite type of apple, literally the Canadian McIntosh red green apple. Each model introduced to consumers presented friendlier user experience, top of the art aesthetic design and powerful architecture.
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