Power Macintosh 5500
Manufacturer	Apple Computer
Introduced	February 17, 1997
Discontinued	March 31, 1998
Price	US$2000 - 2200
CPU	PowerPC 603e, 225 - 275 MHz
RAM	32 MB, expandable to 128 MB, 70 ns 168-pin DIMM
OS	System 7.5.5-Mac OS 9.1, or with G3 upgrade, up to Mac OS 9.2.2

The Power Macintosh 5500 – code-named "Phoenix" – was produced between February 1997 and early '98 and came with an IBM PowerPC 603ev processor operating at either 225, 250 and 275 MHz. Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics Events 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt. 1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC processors built System 7 (codenamed "Big Bang" and sometimes called Mac OS 7) is a single-user Graphical user interface -based Operating system for Macintosh Mac OS 9 is the final major release of Apple's "Classic" Mac OS. Mac OS 9 is the final major release of Apple's "Classic" Mac OS. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology PowerPC is a RISC Instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple – IBM – Motorola alliance known as AIM The processor made use of a 32 KB L1 cache and an optional 256 or 512 KB L2 (the latter being available only on the 275 MHz model) cache operating at the stock 50 MHz bus speed. In Computer science, a cache (kæʃ like "cash") is a collection of data duplicating original

It was originally produced for the educational market and is essentially an upgraded Power Macintosh 5400. The Power Macintosh 5400 series (also sold under variations of the name Performa 5400 and Power Macintosh 5400 LC) is a range of lower midrange Personal computers These upgrades included a larger ATA hard disk (2 GB was stock, but the 275 MHz models had 4 GB); a faster SCSI CD-ROM drive (12x in early models and 24x in the top-end); A better video card in the form of an accelerated ATI Rage IIc graphics card, containing 2 MB of dedicated VRAM and allowing for a maximum screen resolution of 1152 × 864 pixels. AT Attachment with Packet Interface ( ATA/ATAPI) is a standard interface used to connect storage devices such as Hard disks Solid-state

5500s came with optional multimedia expansion cards, that connect via internal cables. In European models, these were an S-Video card and a Philips TV tuner card that also had an audio input. Super Video or Separated Video abbreviated S-Video and also known as Y/C is an analog video signal that carries the video data as two separate Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV ( Royal Philips Electronics Inc. Black 5500s with this configuration were marketed as Director Editions in North America and Australasia and the 225 MHz version actually had the phrase printed on the case. Australasia is a Region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring Islands in the Pacific

The black "Director Edition"

Like all other 5000 series PowerMacs, the 5500 is an All-In-One (AIO) computer – that is to say that the logic board, hard disk, floppy disk and CD-ROM drives, stereo speakers, monophonic microphone and 15" monitor are built into a single unit. Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a line of Apple Macintosh Workstation -class Personal computers based on various models of PowerPC A logic board is the Apple Macintosh equivalent of a Motherboard. This gives the computer the appearance of a television set – particularly when an aerial is connected to the built-in TV card. Like the 5400 series, the 5500 has one PCI card slot. The Peripheral Component Interconnect, or PCI Standard (commonly PCI) specifies a Computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a Computer The 225 and 250 MHz models were produced in beige and black, whilst the rarer 275 MHz models were only black.

The 5500 supports System Software versions 7. Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of Graphical user interface -based Operating systems developed by Apple Inc 5. 5 through 9. 1 – Mac OS X is not officially supported on this machine. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently However, it can be run with XPostFacto but this is not recommended, due to the 5500's lack of a G3 processor and RAM ceiling of 128 MB. XPostFacto is an Open source utility that enables the installation of PowerPC versions of Mac OS X up to 10 In the general case, 128 MB of RAM is the minimum required for OS X to run (a G3 iMac can run OS X with this amount of RAM), but only on machines with a G3 processor. The iMac is a desktop Macintosh computer designed and built by Apple Inc