11/11/2023 0 Comments Old mac computers color![]() ![]() Single frame captures could be made from the TV tuner, video capture wasn’t possible. The computer display topped out at 256 colors while the TV display was capable of 32bit color, only in full screen. Max RAM was 8 megs, at a time when 16 meg *minimum* was becoming the norm in the PC clone world. They took a Performa AV and made it awful. The most crippled Macintosh ever was the Mac TV. Still had the same 10 meg RAM limit but had 4 meg soldered so to get to 10 meg, 12 meg had to be installed. Fortunately, like with the IIsi, several expansion cards came with an FPU, but that made upgrades like network cards more expensive if you wanted one with an FPU. ![]() It supported an FPU, but that used the PDS. Despite that and other limitations (such as the lack of a math coprocessor socket and running a 32bit CPU on a 16 bit bus), it had 256K of dedicated VRAM, which could be upgraded to 512K. The LC, the only Mac to use the 68020 CPU, was hard limited to only being able to use up to 10 megabytes RAM, 2 megabytes soldered plus two 30 pin slots for a pair of 4 meg SIMMs. The aftermarket settled on making adapters for many of the 68030 Macs to the IIci PDS. The other dumb thing Apple did to the IIsi was use the same PDS connection on the SE30, IIci, and IIsi, but have each of the three incompatible so addon cards would have to be specifically designed for each model or use an adapter. The IIsi RAM Muncher extension was written to use up all the non-video space in Bank A to do nothing so that whenever the system checked for needing CPU access to Bank A it would instantly get handed back to video. But then they had its built in video use main RAM for video RAM, and made it have to alternate access to Bank A between the CPU and Video. Not a bad idea for a lower cost model based on the IIci. Thus the low-end model does in a way hurt sales of the high-end, by hurting sales of all the models.Īpple made the IIsi with one small bank of RAM soldered to the mainboard, and one bank of SIMM sockets. People who don’t look carefully at the specifications and features buy the ‘cheap’ model, get hugely disappointed in it, then conclude that *all* of the companies products are overpriced and overrated. So to ‘stop that’ they do dumb things to the lower cost model that makes it very undesirable. There were several crippled/hobbled models of Macintosh Apple would have been much better off having never made – or not deliberately sabotaging their hardware capabilities.Īpple got caught up in the same fallacy that afflicts many other businesses, that making a less expensive model will somehow “cannibalize” sales of their more expensive, more featureful models. The Color Classic II was a good one, but Apple decided Americans and Canadians wouldn’t be allowed to have them. The Color Classic was pretty shite as a computer. Posted in Mac Hacks, Raspberry Pi Tagged adb, Apple Desktop Bus, display, e-ink, mac Classic, macintosh classic ii, raspberry pi Post navigation If you’re more of a classic Apple purist, though, take a look at this SE/30 which uses almost entirely original parts with the exception of a Raspberry Pi to allow it to communicate with the modern Internet. While it’s largely an illusion of a working Mac Classic, we still appreciate the aesthetic. While the only part of the computer that’s original is the shell at this point, the project’s creator also built in support for the Apple Desktop Bus through an Arduino so the original Apple mouse and keyboard can be used. The e-ink display is driven by a Raspberry Pi which displays a replica System 7 environment and a set of photos. This one has been retrofitted with an e-ink display which actually gives it some of the same grayscale aesthetic as the original. As such, there were some lower specs for this machine such as the monochrome 512×342 display. The Macintosh Classic II was the successor to the first Macintosh computer Apple sold that had a price tag under $1000. But if you throw out the requirement of using only era-appropriate components, there are some interesting ways to revive older devices with a few touches of modern tech, like this Mac Classic with a unique display. Keeping these systems up and running often requires scavenging parts from other machines which are only becoming harder to find as time goes on. As various antique computers age, it becomes increasingly hard to operate them as hardware begins to physically fail. ![]()
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