[WinMac] Re: WinMac Digest #190 - 01/08/99


John D. Muccigrosso(jmuccigr[at]drew.edu)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:05:15 -0500


DS wrote:

> 4) Dropping of 680x0 support in MacOS 8.5, obsoleting machines
> that are less than 2 years old (such as the PowerBook 190);

>Just for accuracy, the 190 was introduced 8-28-95 and discontinued on
4-1-96, according to Apple's on-line spec sheet:

<http://www.info.apple.com/info.apple.com/applespec/applespec.taf?RID=3306
9>

and

<http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/stats/mac_powerbook190_66
.html>

(I think, although I may be mistaken, that this was the last 680X0
machine that apple put into production.) The first PPC machines came out
3-14-94, over a year earlier and 603-based machines like the 6200 were out
too,
and the PB5300 had come out three days earlier. Any of these late 680X0

John Muccigrosso

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