Apple Macintosh Quadra 650 | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1993-1994
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: Motorola 68040, 33 MHz
- RAM: 40 MB
- FDD: Floppy disk 3.5″ (1.44 MB )
- HDD: 500 MB
- Audio: One channel
- Connectors/Ports: External hard disk, network card, two Apple desktop bus for mouse and keyboard, two serial, parallel, video
- Case: Desktop type
- Monitor: Color
- OS: Mac System 8.1
The Apple Macintosh Quadra 650 features a Motorola 68040 processor at 33 MHz and memory of 40MB. Equipped with a floppy disk of 3.5” at 1.44MB it runs with the operating system of the MacOS 8.1 version. It was originally sold under the Macintosh line but intended for a mid range computer family, the Centris line.
Apple introduced to the world the original Macintosh personal computer series 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. Critics particularly praised the performance and power efficiency.
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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