PowerBook 100

The PowerBook 100 is the first Laptop of Apple of the range PowerBook. Left at the same time as the PowerBook 140 and 170, it constitutes the entry of the portable range of Apple. One can consider that it is the first genuine laptop marketed by Apple because the Macintosh Portable, left two years before, was more one transportable that a portable with its 7 kg.

Contrary to its elder PowerBook 140 and 170, PowerBook 100 is not radically new design. It takes again the same components as the Macintosh Portable, but in a case much more compact (it weighed 2,3 kg) and less richly equipped to decrease the price by them (more restricted connector industry, screen with passive matrix and not with active matrix, lighter battery but also less enduring, suppression of the Disk drive). Marketed to $2500 with its launching (against more than $5000 for a Macintosh Portable), he nevertheless was not success. It is only when Apple lowered its price with less than $ 1000 qu ' it started with good to be sold.

Characteristics

Microprocessor: Motorola 68000 given rhythm to 16 MHz
addressing 24 drunk bits
system 16 bits to 16 MHz
ROMANIAN: 256 KB
RAM: 2 extensible Mo with 8 Mo
screen LCD 9" with matrix passivates
supported resolutions:

640 × 400 in 1 bit (monochromic)

Hard drive intern SCSI of 20 or 40 Mo
slots of extension:

1 site for Modem (in option)
1 connector specific report (PB 1xx) of type SRAM (minimal speed: 100 NS)

connector industry:

1 port SCSI (HDI-30)
1 port series (Mini DIN-8)
1 ports ADB
1 port HDI-20 for external Disk drive
left sound: mono 8 bits

Lead-acid battery ensuring to him 2 hours of autonomy
dimensions: 4,6 × 27,9 × 21,6 cm
weight: 2,3 kg
food: 17 W
supported systems: System 7.0.1 with 7.5.5

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