Massively Speeding Up Apple's First Power Mac!
4,586In the fast-paced tech scene of the 1990s, computers were often obsolete after just a few years. As such, Apple's first-generation PowerPC-based computers from 1994 were definitely feeling their age by the end of the decade...but in the case of this Power Mac 7100, third-party manufacturers had other plans.
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"The Power Mac Arrives," Macworld, May 1994.
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PowerPC 601 chip photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KL_IBM_PowerPC_601.jpg
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Carl Sagan photo: https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/carl-sagan
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Carl Sagan photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomer_Carl_Sagan_in_1987.jpg
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Apple campus photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Headquarters_in_Cupertino.jpg
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