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June 28, 1993: Apple ships the Macintosh LC 520, an “all-in-one” Mac focused primarily on the training market.
The primary Macintosh ever shipped with a non-optional 2x CD-ROM drive, it’s designed to capitalize on colleges’ rising multimedia necessities.
Macintosh LC 520 launch
The Macintosh LC 520 boasted the identical fundamental design because the Mac LC III, which launched in February 1993. This included a 25 MHz 68030 CPU, 5MB of RAM, an 80MB or 160MB exhausting drive, a floppy drive and a 14-inch Sony Trinitron monitor with stereo audio system. It additionally included a built-in microphone, a relative rarity within the early Nineties. Costs began at $1,799 (greater than $3,900 in right this moment’s cash), which made it $300 dearer than the LC III.
In step with Apple’s technique of constructing expandable computer systems in that period, customers may improve the Mac LC 520 in a few methods. A reminiscence improve socket allow them to increase RAM to a whopping 36MB. One other slot allowed processor upgrades.
The primary Mac particularly for colleges
Apple talked up the Macintosh LC 520 as the primary in a sequence of computer systems geared toward particular market segments. The corporate had been fashionable amongst colleges for a very long time. (Critics accused Apple CEO Steve Jobs of abandoning this market when he returned to Apple just a few years later, earlier than embracing it with the so-called eMac).
Nonetheless, to the perfect of my information, the LC 520 was the primary Macintosh constructed particularly for the training market. (It discovered its manner into workplaces as nicely.) Apple launched a unique model of the pc in restricted markets later in 1993 below the title Performa 520.
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