1996 notebook?

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  1. Mark-Mac-Attack, May 12, 2008

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    I'm trying to figure out a notebook that i remember from when i was at secondary school.

    A teacher brought his Mac notebook in, and i was wondering what it was!

    Now what i can remember...

    It had a perspex/plastic cover on the top (lid/display), with a design underneth, quite strange...

    For some reason i think it was 75Mhz, but i can't be sure and im not even sure Apple have ever made a 75Mhz Notebook.

    It would have been in 1996.


    Any thoughts/ideas?

    Mark.:apple:
     
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  2. yellow, May 12, 2008

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  3. Skeletal-dæmon, May 12, 2008

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    You may be thinking of one of the PowerBook 500 series, which were around in the mid-nineties (we had one, not sure which) - however none of them were available with 75MHz processors, they made a leap from 33MHz to 100MHz with the introduction of the PowerPC microprocessor. Hope that helped.

    There is a database application called MacTracker available to download from the internet that has a complete catalogue of all Apple computers to date, and is updated roughly every three months.
     
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  4. nick9191, May 12, 2008

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    If he used it in 1996 is no help, we would need to no when he purchased it.
     
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  5. bartelby, May 12, 2008

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    The PowerBook 1400 had removable "BookCovers" so you could customise them.
    They were made from November 96 to July 97 and started with a 117Mhz processor.
     
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  6. Mark-Mac-Attack, May 13, 2008

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    ahhh sounds about right,

    yeah sorry was new in 1996 too.

    Ill look it up!

    Here we go,

    something like this!

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    well interesting to know,

    similar performance to my £2k plus desktop i had at the time (purchased at a similar time too) :eek:

    and again..


    [​IMG]


    quite likeable for the time!
     
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  7. bartelby, May 13, 2008

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    I'm not sure about now, but 12 - 18 months ago I was looking for one to run a basic music app and they were hard to find. They went for a surprisingly good price.




    Oh, you may want to edit posts to add more info than creating consecutive posts.
     
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