Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes - v3.13, by Herong Yang
Macintosh Models and Release Years
This section provides a quick list of major Macintosh models and their release years.
Major Macintosh models and timeline:
- 1984 - Macintosh, 8 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU with 128 KB RAM and 400 KB diskette drive.
- 1985 - Macintosh, 5 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU with 512 KB RAM and 10 MB hard drive.
- 1986 - Macintosh Plus, 8 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU with 1 MB RAM.
- 1987 - Macintosh SE, 8 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU with 256 KB RAM and 20 MB hard drive.
- 1987 - Macintosh II, 16 MHz Motorola 68020 CPU with 1 MB RAM and 20 MB hard drive.
- 1988 - Macintosh IIx, 16 MHz Motorola 68030 CPU with 1 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive and 1.44 MB diskette drive.
- 1989 - Macintosh Portable, 16 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU with 1 MB RAM.
- 1990 - Macintosh LC, 16 MHz Motorola 68020 CPU with 256 KB RAM.
- 1991 - Macintosh Quadra 700, 25 MHz Motorola 68040 CPU with 4 MB RAM.
- 1991 - PowerBook 100, 16 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU with 2 MB RAM.
- 1992 - PowerBook Duo 210, 25 MHz Motorola 68030 CPU with 4 MB RAM.
- 1993 - Macintosh Quadra 610, 20 MHz Motorola 68040 CPU with 8 MB RAM.
- 1994 - Power Macintosh 6100, 60 MHz PowerPC 601 CPU with 8 MB RAM.
- 1996 - Apple Network Server, 132 MHz PowerPC 604 CPU with AIX operating system.
- 1997 - Power Macintosh G3, 233 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU with 32 MB RAM.
- 1998 - iMac G3, 233 MHz PowerPC 750 with 32 MB RAM.
- 1999 - iBook, 200 MHz PowerPC G3 with 32 MB RAM.
- 2000 - Power Mac G4 Cube, 450 MHz PowerPC G4 CPU with 64 MB RAM.
- 2002 - eMac - 700 MHz PowerPC G4 CPU with 128 MB RAM.
- 2003 - Power Mac G5, 1.6 GHz PowerPC G5 CPU with 256 MB RAM.
- 2004 - Xserve G5, 2 GHz PowerPC G5 CPU with 512 MB RAM.
- 2005 - Mac Mini, 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 CPU with 256 MB RAM.
- 2006 - Mac Pro, 2 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon CPUs with 1 GB RAM.
- 2008 - MacBook Air, 2 1.6 GHz Intel Core CPUs with 2 GB RAM.
Here is a picture of Steve Jobs with a MacBook Air in 2008 (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/):
Table of Contents
2002 - .NET Framework Developed by Microsoft
1995 - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
1995 - Java Language Developed by Sun Microsystems
1991 - WWW (World Wide Web) Developed by Tim Berners-Lee
1991 - Gopher Protocol Created by a University of Minnesota Team
1984 - X Window System Developed a MIT Team
►1984 - Macintosh Developed by Apple Inc.
Macintosh - The First GUI Based Personal Computer
System Software - The Original Mac OS Operating System
►Macintosh Models and Release Years
1983 - "Sendmail" Mail Transfer Agent Developed by Eric Allman
1979 - The Tcsh (TENEX C Shell) Developed by Ken Greer
1978 - Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) Developed by Brian Fox
1978 - The C Shell Developed by Bill Joy
1977 - The Bourne Shell Developed by Stephen Bourne
1977 - Apple II Designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
1976 - vi Text Editor Developed by Bill Joy
1974 - Internet by Vinton Cerf
1972 - C Language Developed by Dennis Ritchie
1971 - FTP Protocol Created by Abhay Bhushan
1970 - UNIX Operating System Developed by AT&T Bell Labs