Macintosh TV
Appearance
Template:Mac specs The Macintosh TV was Apple Computer's first attempt at computer-television integration. It was a curious machine, sharing the external appearance of the Macintosh Performa/LC 500-series, but in black. It was essentially a Performa 520 which could switch its built-in 14" Sony Trinitron CRT from being a computer display to a cable-ready television. It was incapable of showing television feeds in a desktop window, although it could capture still frames to PICT files.
It came with a small remote control that is also compatible with Sony televisions.
Only 10,000 were made in the model's short time on the market, and they are now quite rare.
Specifications
- introduced 1993.10.25 at $2,079; discontinued 1994.04
- requires System 7.1 (with Enabler 404) to 7.6.1
- CPU: 32 MHz 68030
- FPU: none, not even as an option
- performance: 7.0 MIPS
- ROM: 1 MB
- RAM: 5 MB from factory (4 MB on motherboard, expandable to 8 MB using a single 100ns 72-pin SIMM; can use 1 MB or 4 MB SIMM)
- video: 512 KB VRAM; supports 640 x 480 at 8-bits
- L2 cache: none
- hard drive: 160 MB
- CD-ROM: 2x
- ADB ports for keyboard and mouse
- DIN-8 serial ports on back of computer
- DB-25 SCSI connector on back of computer
- Antenna In (F-type RF Connector)
- Composite Video-In, Stereo Audio Input (RCA-type)
- no expansion slots
- size (HxWxD): 17.9" x 13.5" x 16.5"
- weight: 40.5 lb.
- PRAM battery: 3.6V lithium
- Gestalt ID: 88
- addressing: 32-bit
- upgrade path: none