Apple Mac
Apple Macintosh II
Macintosh known as “MAC” was designed by Apple and was invented March 2, 1987 along with the Mac SE and was discontinued January 15, 1990. The Mac II was the first of a lot of different components. Mac was the first “modular” of the Macintosh models, first personal computer of the Macintosh II series, also the first to have the options of having two 800K floppy drives. You could turn the PC on from the power button on the keyboard. The Macintosh was manufactured with the RAM size of 1MB and expandable up to 68MB that’s only with the FDHD (floppy drive, high density) upgrade kit otherwise the max was 20MB and a processor speed of 16 MHz. If you had the FDHD upgrade you could install the super drive which could read and write 800k floppies. In today computers we are now using Gigabytes further more you can see how just over twenty years of developing technology has changed computers.
The Mac II wasn’t only a black and white PC with the use of a NuBus video card. You could display 256 shades of gray or 256 shades of color. Then later the Mac was improved with Color QuickDraw in the ROM, which made the heart of the machine. Since the innovation of Color QuickDraw the PC could handle and display any size or color depth. The Mac was the first to have color.
There were two men who engineered the Macintosh II computer; Michael Dhuey who is an electrical and computer engineer and Brian Berkeley who was his co-inventor. At the time of invention the system with a 20MB drive and monitor cost about $5200 dollars. If you wanted a complete color system it could cost you as much as $10,000 dollars. That’s a lot of money for a computer that only has a 20MB drive. Today’s computers range from $500-$5,000 all depending on what type of hardware and software comes with it.
The Mac II is obsolete compared to the technology advancements in today’s computers. The Mac II is no match to a computer with a monitor that...
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