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Apple ColorMonitor IIc, Apple UniDisk 3.5 and Macintosh Hard Disk 20

Apple announced three products on 1 September 1985: Apple ColorMonitor IIc, Apple UniDisk 3.5 and Macintosh Hard Disk 20. The day spanned Displays, Mac and Storage.

It was the 5th of 5 dated moments the archive holds for 1985, 92 days after the previous one, June 1985.

Apple ColorMonitor IIc product photograph

Apple Rescue of Denver · Unverified — applerescueofdenver.com product photograph

What Apple announced

Apple UniDisk 3.5

Storage · Drives · discontinued 1 January 1987

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

Macintosh Hard Disk 20

Mac · Drives

The Macintosh Hard Disk 20 is the first hard drive developed by Apple Computer specifically for use with the Macintosh 512K. Introduced on September 17, 1985, it was part of Apple's solution toward completing the Macintosh Office (a suite of integrated business hardware & software) announced in January 1985. It would be over a year more before Apple would release the file server software AppleShare that would link all of the hardware together. By that time the SCSI interface introduced on the Macintosh Plus in January 1986, would accommodate far faster and more efficient hard drives, rendering the Hard Disk 20 virtually obsolete.

Also in 1985

Sources

  1. Apple UniDisk 3.5 · Wikipedia
  2. Macintosh Hard Disk 20 · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.