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23 years ago today Apple released this for sale to the public. It was a prime example of the lows Apple had reached in the 1990s.
This is about the time I bought my first PC that ran Windows 95. Now I remember why. Thank goodness Moore's law has been in effect for a few decades now.
Its PowerPC processor could run at 66 MHz (a spec that would get upgraded to 80 MHz in January 1995). The Power Mac 7100’s hard drive ranged between 250MB and 700MB in size, and it sported Apple’s then-standard NuBus card slots and 72-pin paired RAM slots.
Costing $2,900 to $3,500, the Mac 7100 was a solid piece of hardware that bridged the gap nicely between the low-end consumer 6100 and its higher-end 8100 sibling. It was, for example, perfectly capable of running two monitors — although it could also overheat when performing particularly strenuous tasks like complex rendering of images or videos.
This is about the time I bought my first PC that ran Windows 95. Now I remember why. Thank goodness Moore's law has been in effect for a few decades now.
Its PowerPC processor could run at 66 MHz (a spec that would get upgraded to 80 MHz in January 1995). The Power Mac 7100’s hard drive ranged between 250MB and 700MB in size, and it sported Apple’s then-standard NuBus card slots and 72-pin paired RAM slots.
Costing $2,900 to $3,500, the Mac 7100 was a solid piece of hardware that bridged the gap nicely between the low-end consumer 6100 and its higher-end 8100 sibling. It was, for example, perfectly capable of running two monitors — although it could also overheat when performing particularly strenuous tasks like complex rendering of images or videos.
