04-04-2020, 05:22 PM
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April 3, 1995: Apple introduces the Macintosh LC 580, an affordable computer offering good multimedia capabilities on a budget.
It quickly proves popular in the educational market. If you used a Mac in the classroom in the mid-1990s, there’s a good chance it was this very model!
Macintosh LC 580: The Mac that classrooms deserved
If you worry that Apple’s product lines seem more confused now than when Steve Jobs ran the company, rest assured that today’s offerings are nothing compared to the Mac lineup in the mid-1990s.
Without even delving into laptops or the netherworld of third-party Macintosh clones, Apple’s ’90s-era Mac lineup proved hopelessly complicated. Desktop sub-product lines such as the Centris, Quadra, Classic II and Color Classic models competed for mindshare. The LC 500 series sat somewhere in the middle — at the top of the low-end Mac models.
The Macintosh LC 580 (which, confusingly, was sold in Canada, Asia and Australia as the Performa 580CD) was an affordable multimedia Mac. Priced at $1,199, it boasted a Motorola 68LC040 processor running at 33 MHz, a 14-inch color Trinitron display and a double-speed CD-ROM drive. It also came with a video input, en external video connector, speakers and a microphone.
Developed at Apple under the codename “Dragonkid,” it shipped with System 7.5 preinstalled.
April 3, 1995: Apple introduces the Macintosh LC 580, an affordable computer offering good multimedia capabilities on a budget.
It quickly proves popular in the educational market. If you used a Mac in the classroom in the mid-1990s, there’s a good chance it was this very model!
Macintosh LC 580: The Mac that classrooms deserved
If you worry that Apple’s product lines seem more confused now than when Steve Jobs ran the company, rest assured that today’s offerings are nothing compared to the Mac lineup in the mid-1990s.
Without even delving into laptops or the netherworld of third-party Macintosh clones, Apple’s ’90s-era Mac lineup proved hopelessly complicated. Desktop sub-product lines such as the Centris, Quadra, Classic II and Color Classic models competed for mindshare. The LC 500 series sat somewhere in the middle — at the top of the low-end Mac models.
The Macintosh LC 580 (which, confusingly, was sold in Canada, Asia and Australia as the Performa 580CD) was an affordable multimedia Mac. Priced at $1,199, it boasted a Motorola 68LC040 processor running at 33 MHz, a 14-inch color Trinitron display and a double-speed CD-ROM drive. It also came with a video input, en external video connector, speakers and a microphone.
Developed at Apple under the codename “Dragonkid,” it shipped with System 7.5 preinstalled.
