Apple Powerbook | TechMuseum
Year of Manufacture: 1992
Technical Specifications:
- Monitor: Color, 640×400
- CPU: Motorola 68030, 25 MHz
- RAM: 2 MB to 8MB
- Storage Units: 3.5″ FDD (1.44MB), HDD (40 to 80 MB)
- Connectability: Serial, Apple Desktop Bus
- Keyboard: 64 keys
- Weight: 7.2 kgr
- OS: Mac OS 7.6.1.
The Apple PowerBook (the 1xx series) features still a Motorola 68030 processor at 25MHz and memory of 2MB up to 8MB. Equipped with a floppy disk of 3.5” at 1.44MB and an HDD of 40MB up to 80MB it ran with the operating system of the MacOS 7.6.1 version.
The PowerBook series was the first generation of personal computers to have equipped the PowerPC processor. This family of computers, apart from the CPU, presented many similarities with the preceding Macintosh line, the original one.
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, the 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.
That was just a snapshot on the presentation of the techmuseum series. Indulge more into the history. Continue reading more about the present model, the Apple Powerbook here. Alternatively, find more exciting stories like this one here.
Author: PC-GR
The World of Technology
