Apple Power Macintosh 7300/200 | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1997
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: PowerPC 604e, 166 or 180 or 200 MHz
- RAM: 16 MB to 1 GB
- FDD: Floppy disk 3″ (1.44 MB )
- HDD: 2 GB
- Audio: 16 bit, stereo
- Connectors/Ports: Apple network, Apple desktop bus for keyboard and mouse, two serials, parallel, modem, external hard disk, speaker, microphone, video
- Case: Desktop type
- Monitor: Color
- OS: Mac System 9
The Apple Power Macintosh 7300/200 features a PowerPC 604e processor with MHz variants and memory of 16MB up to 1GB. Equipped with a floppy disk of 3” at 1.44MB and an HDD at 2GB it runs with the operating system of the MacOS 9 version.
The Apple Power Macintosh series is a family of personal computers from the core of the Macintosh brand line, replacing the Quadra series. This line with recurring releases between 1994 and 2006 featured a different architecture and a transition from Motorola processor to the PowerPC one.
The Introduction of Macintosh
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. 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 showed friendlier user experience, top of the art aesthetic design and powerful architecture.
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