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Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS and Power Macintosh 6400

Apple announced two products on 1 October 1996: Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS and Power Macintosh 6400. The day spanned Mac and Printers.

It was the 11th of 14 dated moments the archive holds for 1996, 96 days after the previous one, 27 June 1996.

Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS product photograph

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What Apple announced

Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS

Printers · LaserWriter

The Color LaserWriter was a line of PostScript four-color laser printers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. in the mid-1990s. These printers were compatible with PCs and Apple's own Macintosh line of computers; these printers were also able to connect to large networks by way of the use of an 10baseT Ethernet port. Two models were released.

Power Macintosh 6400

Mac · Power Macintosh · discontinued 1 May 1997

The Power Macintosh 6400 (also sold under variations of the name Performa 6400) is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from August 1996 to August 1997. It is the only Macintosh mini-tower system to be branded as a Performa, and alongside the Performa 6360 was the last new Performa-branded model introduced by Apple.

The 6400 and its Performa variants were discontinued in favor of the uniformly-named Power Macintosh 6500 in August 1997.

Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS product photograph
Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS

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Power Macintosh 6400 product photograph
Power Macintosh 6400

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Also in 1996

Sources

  1. Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS · Wikipedia
  2. Power Macintosh 6400 · Wikipedia

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