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Macintosh Classic II, Macintosh Quadra 700 and PowerBook 100

Apple announced three products on 21 October 1991: Macintosh Classic II, Macintosh Quadra 700 and PowerBook 100.

It was the 5th of 5 dated moments the archive holds for 1991, 20 days after the previous one, 1 October 1991.

Macintosh Classic II product photograph

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What Apple announced

Macintosh Classic II

Mac · Compact · discontinued 13 September 1993

The Macintosh Classic II (also sold as the Performa 200) is a personal computer designed and manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. from October 1991 to September 1993. The system has a compact, appliance design with an integrated 9" monitor, typical of the earliest of the Macintosh range. A carrying handle moulded into the case added a degree of portability at a time when laptops were still relatively uncommon.

Like the preceding Macintosh SE/30, the Classic II was powered by a 16 MHz Motorola 68030 CPU but experienced about 30% slower performance due to the limitations imposed by a cost-reduced 16-bit data bus, versus the 32-bit bus used in the SE/30 design. The system had a base memory configuration of 2 MB, with a 10 MB upper limit and was supplied with either a 40 or 80 MB hard disk.

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Macintosh Quadra 700

Mac · Quadra · discontinued 15 March 1993

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

PowerBook 100

Mac · discontinued 3 August 1992

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

Also in 1991

Sources

  1. Macintosh Classic II · Wikipedia
  2. Macintosh Quadra 700 · Wikipedia
  3. PowerBook 100 · 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.