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The Macintosh Plus computer was the third model in the Macintosh line, introduced two years after the original Macintosh and a little more than a year after the Macintosh 512K. It originally had a beige case, but in 1987, the case color was changed to the long-lived "platinum" color. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 534 pixelsFull resolution‎ (3,085 × 2,059 pixels, file size: 442 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ...
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Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...
is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
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The Motorola 68000 is a 16/32-Bit [1] CISC microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector). ...
MB, Mb, mB or mb may mean: Mb (digraph) Megabit (1,000,000 bits) or mebibit (220 = 1,048,576 bits); the preferred symbols are Mb and Mibit, respectively¹ Megabyte (1,000,000 bytes) or mebibyte (220 = 1,048,576 bytes); the preferred symbols are MB and MiB, respectively¹ MB...
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Mac 512K back panel The Macintosh 512K Personal Computer, the second of a long line of Apple Macintosh computers, was the first update to the original Macintosh 128K. It was virtually identical to the previous Mac, differing primarily in the amount of built-in memory, which quadrupled the originals. ...
Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ...
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The Mac Plus was the first Macintosh model to include a SCSI port, which launched the popularity of external SCSI devices for Macs, including hard disks, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, printers, and even monitors. Its SCSI implementation was engineered shortly before the initial SCSI spec was finalized and, as such, is not 100% SCSI-compliant (but is close). SCSI ports remained standard equipment for all Macs until the introduction of the iMac in 1998. The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...
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The original Bondi Blue iMac G3 was introduced in 1998. ...
The Macintosh Plus was the last classic Mac to have a phone cord-like port in front of the Macintosh; later models would use ADB ports. Early ADB device Apple Desktop Bus (or ADB) is an obsolete bit-serial bus for connecting low-speed devices to computers. ...
It had a new 3.5-inch double-sided 800 KB floppy drive, offering double the capacity of previous Macs along with backward compatibility. The new drive was controlled by the same IWM chip as in previous models, implementing variable speed GCR. The drive was still completely incompatible with PC drives. The 800 KB drive had two read/write heads, enabling it to simultaneously use both sides of the floppy disk and thereby double storage capacity. Imperial War Museum, Lambeth, London The original location of the Imperial War Museum was the Crystal Palace, located at the top of Sydenham Hill. ...
Zone Bit Recording (ZBR) is used by disk drives to store more sectors per track on outer tracks than on inner tracks. ...
Group Code Recording (GCR) is a floppy disk data encoding format used by the Apple II and Commodore Business Machines in the 5¼ disk drives for their 8-bit computers (the best-known drives being the Disk II for the Apple II family and the Commodore 1541, used with the...
A personal computer (PC) is a computer whose price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals. ...
The Mac Plus was the first of many Macintoshes to use SIMMs (single in-line memory modules) for its memory. It came standard with 1 MB of RAM (four 256 KB SIMMs) and could be upgraded to 4 MB of RAM. It had 128 KB of ROM on the motherboard, which was double the amount of ROM that was in previous Macs; the new System software and ROMs included routines to support SCSI, the new 800 KB floppy drive, and the Hierarchical File System (HFS), which used a true directory structure on disks (as opposed to the earlier MFS, Macintosh File System in which all files were stored in a single directory, with one level of pseudo-folders overlaid on them). For programmers, the fourth Inside Macintosh volume detailed how to use HFS and the rest of the Mac Plus's new system software. 30- (top) and 72-pin (bottom) SIMMs. ...
The abbreviation KB or kb can refer to: kilobyte (kB or KB), equal to 1,000 bytes or 1024 bytes depending on context, or kibibyte (KiB), equal to 1,024 bytes. ...
Hierarchical File System (HFS), is a file system developed by Apple Computer for use on computers running Mac OS. Originally designed for use on floppy and hard disks, it can also be found on read-only media such as CD-ROMs. ...
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Inside Macintosh is the name of the developer documentation manuals published by Apple Computer, the APIs and machine architecture of the Macintosh computer. ...
A compact Mac, the Plus had a 9-inch 512 by 342 pixel monochrome display with a resolution of 72 PPI, identical to that of previous Macintosh models. Unlike earlier Macs, the Mac Plus's keyboard included a numeric keypad and directional arrow keys, and, as with previous Macs, it had a one-button mouse and no fan, making it extremely quiet in operation. The Macintosh 128K introduced the Compact Macintosh fcase style Compact Macintosh or Classic Macintosh are terms that refer to the direct descendants of the original Macintosh personal computer case design by Apple Computer. ...
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The applications MacPaint and MacWrite were bundled with the Mac Plus. After August of 1987, HyperCard and MultiFinder were also bundled. Third-party software applications available included MacDraw, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Aldus's PageMaker. This was the first time GUI versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint were introduced on any personal computer platform. MacPaint is a bitmap-based image editing computer program that was produced by Apple Computer for bundling with their Macintosh personal computer. ...
MacWrite was a word processor application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. ...
HyperCard was an application program from Apple Computer that was among the first successful hypermedia systems before the World Wide Web. ...
MultiFinder was the name of a piece of extension software for the Apple Macintosh introduced in System 5 and featured in System 6. ...
MacDraw was a vector-based drawing program made by Apple Computer for the early Macintosh computers; the software was later sold to Claris. ...
Microsoft Word is a word processing application from Microsoft. ...
Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. It features calculation and graphing tools which, along with aggressive marketing, have made Excel one of the most popular microcomputer applications to date. ...
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Aldus Corporation (named after the 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius) was the inventor of the groundbreaking PageMaker software for the Apple Macintosh, a program that is generally credited with creating the desktop publishing (DTP) field. ...
PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program, introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, initially for the Apple Macintosh but soon after also for the PC. It relies on Adobe Systems PostScript page description language. ...
There was also an upgrade kit for the earlier Macintosh 128K and Macintosh 512K, which included a new motherboard, floppy disk drive, keyboard, mouse, and rear case. The owner retained the front case, monitor, and analog board. Because of this, there is no "Macintosh Plus" on the front, and the Apple logo is recessed and in the bottom left hand corner. However, the label on the back of the case reads "Macintosh Plus 1MB". Unfortunately, this upgrade cost almost as much as a new machine. Back case of an unaltered, still-working original Macintosh (sold from January 1984 to September 1984). ...
Mac 512K back panel The Macintosh 512K Personal Computer, the second of a long line of Apple Macintosh computers, was the first update to the original Macintosh 128K. It was virtually identical to the previous Mac, differing primarily in the amount of built-in memory, which quadrupled the originals. ...
In the present, there is a program called vMac that can emulate a Mac Plus on a variety of platforms, including Unix, Windows, DOS, Mac OS, Mac OS X, and even Nintendo DS. The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
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Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ...
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This article relates to both the original Classic Mac OS as well as Mac OS X, Apples more recent operating system. ...
Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...
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Long production life Although the Mac Plus became overshadowed by two new Macs in March 1987 (the Macintosh SE and the Macintosh II), it remained in production as a cheaper alternative until the introduction of Macintosh Classic on 15 October 1990. This makes the Macintosh Plus the longest-produced Macintosh ever. It continued to be supported by versions of the Mac OS up to version 7.5.5, released in 1996. Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Macintosh SE was a personal computer manufactured by Apple. ...
Macintosh II was the first personal computer model of the Macintosh II series in the Apple Macintosh line. ...
Macintosh Classic Demand for another all-in-one Mac, such as the popular Macintosh Plus and the SE, spurred the introduction of the Macintosh Classic. ...
is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
This article relates to both the original Classic Mac OS as well as Mac OS X, Apples more recent operating system. ...
System 7 (codenamed Big Bang) was a version of Mac OS, the operating system of the Apple Macintosh computer. ...
Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
Problems The lack of fan could cause the life of a Macintosh Plus to end early for some users. As the power supply would heat up, solder joints inside it would fracture causing many problems, such as loss of deflection in the monitor or a complete loss of power. A solder is a fusible metal alloy, with a melting point or melting range of 180-190°C (360-370 °F), which is melted to join metallic surfaces, especially in the fields of electronics and plumbing, in a process called soldering. ...
From the debut of the Macintosh 128K through the Macintosh Plus, various third-party cooling add-ons were available to help increase airflow through the unit (including the fanless Mac Chimney which cooled by convection). Apple finally reorganized the Compact Macintosh case to accommodate a fan with the release of the Macintosh SE. Another popular remedy was to create more vents so that more air could escape. Back case of an unaltered, still-working original Macintosh (sold from January 1984 to September 1984). ...
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The Macintosh SE was a personal computer manufactured by Apple. ...
Popular culture A Mac Plus made an appearance in the 1986 science fiction movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In the scene, engineer Scotty, having traveled to the 1980s from the late 23rd century, tries to use the Mac to demonstrate the formula for a material known as transparent aluminum. However, he is perplexed by its failure to respond to his voice commands. Scotty is handed the mouse, which he holds up to his mouth like a microphone and cheerfully says, "Hello computer!" The machine's owner directs him to the use the keyboard, which he calls "quaint" but quickly accomplishes the task. Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Paramount Pictures, 1986; see also 1986 in film) is the fourth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ...
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Transparent aluminum (or aluminium) is a fictional material in the Star Trek universe, popularized in the 1986 film, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (STTVH). ...
A Mac Plus also made an appearance in Flubber; it is located in the main character's kitchen. For the Marvel Comics character, see Flubber (comics). ...
An anthropomorphized version of the Mac Plus named Max is the default Office Assistant for Macintosh versions of Microsoft Office starting with Office 98. Clippit asking if you need help The Office Assistant was a feature included in Microsoft Office 97 and subsequent versions until Office 2007, in which the assistants have been removed due to widespread dissatisfaction on the part of Office users. ...
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Microsoft Office is an office suite from Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X operating systems. ...
External links - BYTE takes an early look at the Mac Plus
- Uses for a Mac Plus
- Mac Plus memory upgrade pictorial
- Floppy drives compatible with the Mac Plus
- The Vintage Mac Museum: Mac Plus Slideshows
- The M0001 Registry Owners of Vintage Macintosh
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