Power Macintosh 7100
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| Release date | March, 1994 (66 MHz) January, 1995 (80 MHz) |
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| Introductory price | 2900, 3300, 3500 |
| Discontinued | January 1995 (66 MHz) January, 1996 (80 MHz) |
| Operating system | System 7.1.2, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9 |
| CPU | PowerPC 601 @ 66 and 80 MHz |
| Memory | 8 MiB, expandable to 136 MiB (80 ns 72 pin SIMM) |
The Power Macintosh 7100 was a mid-range Apple Macintosh personal computer that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from March 1994 to January 1996. The PowerMac 7100 was faster and more expandable than the Power Macintosh 6100, and was a part of the original Power Macintosh line along with the 6100 and the Power Macintosh 8100. 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. When it was discontinued it was succeeded by two new models, the Power Macintosh 7200 and the Power Macintosh 7500.
A higher-priced audio-visual variant (the 7100AV) included a 2 MB VRAM card with s-video in/out. Non-AV 7100s had a video card containing 1 MB VRAM and no s-video in/out capability.
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Codename lawsuit [edit]
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."[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 were codenamed "Cold fusion" and "Piltdown Man", and he was displeased at being associated with what he considered pseudoscience. Though Sagan lost the suit, Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway, renaming the project "BHA" (for Butt-Head Astronomer). 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. Apple's third and final code name for the project was "LAW", short for "Lawyers are Wimps".
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References [edit]
- ^ An account of this lawsuit is given in Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos, pages 363-364 and 374-375.
External links [edit]
- Power Macintosh 7100.66, 7100/80, 7100/80av at Forevermac.com
- apple-history.com :: Power Macintosh 7100
- Another Old Computer Museum :: Lots of photos
- specifications at AppleSpec :: 7100/66
- specifications at AppleSpec :: 7100/66AV
- specifications at AppleSpec :: 7100/80
- specifications at AppleSpec :: 7100/80AV
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