Macintosh LC II
The Macintosh LC II (LC stands for "low-cost color" - inexpensive, color-capable) is a Macintosh computer from Apple . In 1992 it was the second generation of the Macintosh LC series.
It differs from its predecessor by a slightly different housing construction (a second floppy disk drive instead of a hard disk is not provided) as well as through the use of Motorola - 68030 - processor with 16 MHz. With separate caches for data and instructions, this offered only minimally more performance. However, the 68030 has an integrated MMU . This enabled the device, which was limited to 10 MB in the main memory, to swap , which was anchored in the operating system from System 7 and Apple called virtual memory . The LC II received 4 MB of soldered memory on the motherboard (predecessor: 2).
Otherwise, the LC II inherited all the advantages and disadvantages of its predecessor.
The LC II was also intended to attract private users and students with a low price (from DM 3,100, later even DM 1,400 with a screen). Before the Mac Mini , the LC and LC II belonged to the space-saving desktop computers, were popular despite their mediocre performance and found good sales.
The Macintosh LC II was delivered in Germany with the operating system MacOS 7.0.1 (USA initially still 6.0.7) and could be increased up to System 7.5.5.
In order to start the sale again towards the end of its term, the LC II u. a. also sold as Macintosh Performa 400, 405, 410, 430.
System profile
Macintosh LC II ("pizza box", successor to the Macintosh LC)
- Construction period: March 23, 1992 to March 15, 1993
- Classification: 32-bit Macintosh
- Main processor: Motorola MC68030
- Mass storage: 3.5 ″ drive for 1.44 MB floppy disks
- Clock rate: 16 MHz
- Main memory: 4 MB
- Max. RAM: 10 MB
- Graphics: 640 × 480 with 8-bit color depth
- Sound: built-in 8-bit mono system