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| Power Macintosh 7100 | |
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| Manufacturer | Apple Computer |
| Introduced | March, 1994 (66mhz) January, 1995 (80mhz) |
| Discontinued | January, 1996 |
| Price | US$2900, 3300, 3500 |
| CPU | PowerPC 601, 66 and 80 MHz |
| RAM | 8 MiB, expandable to 136 MiB, 80 ns 72 pin SIMM |
| OS | System 7.1.2, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9 |
The Power Macintosh 7100 was a high-end Apple Macintosh personal computer that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from March 1994 to January 1996. Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 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 A mebibyte (a contraction of me ga bi nary byte) is a unit of Information or Computer storage, abbreviated MiB. A SIMM, or single in-line memory module, is a type of memory module containing Random access memory used in Computers from the early 1980s to the late 1990s 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 8 is an Operating system released by Apple Computer on July 26 1997. Mac OS 9 is the final major release of Apple's "Classic" Mac OS. Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc A personal computer ( PC) is any Computer whose original sales price size and capabilities make it useful for individuals and which is intended to be operated Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics The PowerMac 7100 was a faster, more expandable Power Macintosh 6100, and was a part of the original Power Macintosh line along with it. The Power Macintosh 6100 was Apple Computer 's first computer to use the new PowerPC RISC type processor created by IBM and Motorola. Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a line of Apple Macintosh Workstation -class Personal computers based on various models of PowerPC It came in a slightly restyled Macintosh IIvx case, and received a speed increase to 80 MHz (from its original 66 MHz) in January 1995. The Macintosh IIvx (code name Brazil was the last of the Macintosh II series of Macintosh computers from Apple. When it was discontinued it was succeeded by two new models, the Power Macintosh 7200 and the Power Macintosh 7500. The Power Macintosh 7200 (Codename "Catalyst" the 90 MHz model was also sold in Japan as the Power Macintosh 7215, and the 120 MHz model with bundled The Power Macintosh 7500 was one of the first PCI capable Macs manufactured by Apple Computer.
A higher-priced audio-visual variant (the 7100AV) included a 2 MiB VRAM card with s-video in/out. Non-AV 7100s had a video card containing 1 MiB VRAM and no s-video in/out capability.
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Codename Lawsuit
The Power Macintosh 7100's internal code name was "Carl Sagan", the in-joke being that the mid-range PowerMac 7100 would make Apple "billions and billions. Carl Edward Sagan ( November 9 1934 &ndash December 20 1996) was an American Astronomer, astrochemist, author "[1] Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage he sued Apple Computer to force the use of a different project name. Other models released conjointly had code names such as "Cold fusion" and "Piltdown Man", and he was displeased at being associated with what he considered pseudoscience. Cold fusion, sometimes called low energy nuclear reactions (LENR or condensed matter nuclear science, is a set of effects reported in controversial laboratory experiments The "Piltdown Man" is a famous hoax consisting of fragments of a skull and jawbone collected in 1912 from a gravel pit at Piltdown a village near Uckfield Though Sagan lost the suit, Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway, renaming the project "BHA" (for Butt-Head Astronomer). From the 1980s to the present Apple Inc has been plaintiff or defendant in civil actions in the United States and other countries Sagan promptly sued Apple for libel over the new name, claiming that it subjected him to contempt and ridicule, but lost this lawsuit as well. Still, the 7100 saw another name change: it was finally referred to internally as "LAW" (Lawyers Are Wimps).
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- ^ An account of this lawsuit is given in Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos, pages 363-364 and 374-375. This list of Macintosh models grouped by CPU type contains all CPUs used by Apple Inc The following is a list of Apple Inc (formerly known as Apple Computer Inc
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