Macintosh LC 580

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The Macintosh LC 580 (LC stands for “Low Cost”) is a Macintosh computer from Apple . The model presented in 1995 represents the last generation of the Macintosh LC series. Compared to the "pizza box" format of the first LC generation, the overall height has now almost doubled.

It had a 32-bit data bus. The VRAM of its predecessor, the LC 575, had been doubled in the LC 580 to 1 MB DRAM and was firmly attached to the motherboard . In addition, a video in / out slot was now integrated. This slot was the same as the TV tuner slot that was briefly available on Mac TV.

The LC 580 had an integrated color monitor that could display 640 × 480 pixels with up to 32k colors.

The computer had a 1.44 MB SuperDrive floppy disk and a CD-ROM drive as standard. In addition to two serial interfaces, the LC 580 also had a stereo 8-bit audio output, a mono 8-bit audio input with a small microphone supplied and a SCSI interface, to which a removable disk drive, popular in agencies and graphic offices at the time, was often connected.

The Macintosh LC 580 was developed in Germany with the MacOS 7.5 operating system . delivered and could up to System 8.1. be increased. It was built between April 1995 and April 1996. It was also sold as the Performa 580CD and 588CD. The computer's code name was "Optimus".