PowerBook 100
The PowerBook 100 is a portable subnotebook from Apple , which was presented on October 21, 1991 at the COMDEX computer fair in Las Vegas . The processor and the speed of the device corresponded to the two-year-old predecessor, the Macintosh Portable . It had the 16 megahertz Motorola 68000 processor and had 2-8 megabytes of RAM, a monochrome 9-inch liquid crystal screen with a resolution of 640 × 400 pixels . The operating system was System 7.0.1 . It did not have an integrated floppy disk drive and became known for its compact design, which featured a trackball as a central pointing device in the middle of the keyboard.
The PowerBook 100 was launched at the same time as the PowerBook 140 and PowerBook 170 and was the cheapest in the original PowerBook family at US $ 2300 .
history
Although the predecessor Macintosh Portable was not a great commercial success, Apple's then CEO John Sculley initiated the PowerBook project in 1990 and made one million dollars available for marketing. Despite this comparatively small budget, the PowerBook family was a success, generating over a billion dollars in sales for Apple in the first year.
Specifications
| component | Specifications |
|---|---|
| Display | 9-inch (23 cm) LCD (with backlight), resolution of 640 × 400 pixels |
| Storage | 20–40 MB SCSI internal hard disk; optional external 3.5-inch floppy disk drive |
| processor | 16 MHz Motorola 68000 |
| Bus speed | 16 MHz |
| random access memory | 2 MB, expandable to 8 MB |
| Read-only memory | 256 KB |
| Network | AppleTalk , optional modem |
| battery | 2½ – 3¾ hours |
| Dimensions | 22 x 28 x 4.6 cm |
| connections | 1 × ADB (keyboard, mouse)
1 × mini-DIN -8 RS-422 serial interface (printer / modem, AppleTalk) |
| operating system | System 6.0.8L , 7.0.1 - 7.5.5 |
| Expansion slot | 1 × serial modem |
| Audio | 8-bit mono 22 kHz |
| Code names | Elwood, Jake, O'Shanter & Bess, Asahi, Classic, Derringer, Rosebud, and Sapporo |
Individual evidence
- ^ New Macs headline in Vegas. In: MacWEEK. October 22, 1990, p. 2.
- ^ Kyle Media LLC: PowerBook 100 Specs @ EveryMac.com. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .