Nowadays we call them the compact Macs, but in the beginning they were the only Macs. And the creative ideas people came up with!<\/p>\n
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- Mac Rescue designed a board that put 4 MB RAM and a 2 MB RAM disk in the earliest compacts.<\/li>\n
![\"Dayna](\"http:\/\/lowendmac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maccharlie.jpg\")
Dayna figured out how to add an 8088 CPU, 5.25″ floppy drive, and function keys, creating MacCharlie<\/a>, the first DOS compatible Macintosh.<\/li>\n- The upstarts at Radius figured out how to install a video card and run wires to an external full-page black and white page-sized monitor.<\/li>\n
- Apple put expansion slots in the SE and SE\/30. Today it’s possible to run an SE\/30 with a 40 MHz 68040 CPU<\/a>, 128 MB RAM, and a multi-gigabyte hard drive.<\/li>\n
- And in the end, Andy Ihnatko<\/a> figured out how to gut a compact Mac and turn it into a Macquarium<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Alas, Apple killed the little guys. For a while they had bigger, colorful siblings, the slightly larger Color Classic<\/a> and Color Classic II<\/a> (the latter only in the Asian market). These had a 10″ color screen and a slightly larger case – and were never accepted by old timers. Compared with the originals, the Color Classics seemed overgrown.<\/p>\n
Students loved the littlest Macs because they fit so comfortably in their dorm rooms. Network managers loved the SE\/30 because it made a great server and didn’t require a separate monitor. And a lot of us just liked the fact we could pop them in a bag and tote them between work and home.<\/p>\n
Nice as color and large monitors are, there’s something special about the Macintosh experience on a tiny screen with just two shades, black and white.<\/p>\n
I’d like to see Apple introduce a new compact Mac, a worthy successor to the SE\/30. Keep the footprint identical to the originals, reintroduce the 9″ b&w monitor (tack sharp!), but perhaps make it a couple inches taller and provide space for an internal Zip drive or CD-ROM.<\/p>\n
Borrow some ideas from newer models.<\/p>\n
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- 1-bit through 8-bit video on the internal screen.<\/li>\n
- A slide-out motherboard, like the Color Classic.<\/li>\n
- A PCI slot for adding external video.<\/li>\n
- A comm slot<\/a> or PC Card slot for adding a modem.<\/li>\n
- Ethernet standard.<\/li>\n
- PPC 603e<\/a> or 750 (G3) CPU<\/a> on a ZIF socket for easy upgrade.<\/li>\n
- If it helps keep the size or cost down, an external power brick like PowerBooks use. (This would also reduce heat.)<\/li>\n
- EnergyStar circuitry, plus a switch for turning off just the monitor.<\/li>\n
- Make floppy, Zip, and CD-ROM drives optional – and plug-n-play into an internal drive bay (or two).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I’d love a little powerhouse that I could take to work, to school, to the library, and back home again. Hook it to a color monitor some places; use the internal screen in others. It would also make a great server.<\/p>\n
And if Apple did it right, it could share a lot of components with the 5000 series<\/a> and other Macs. It could be one way to approach to the $1,000 market.<\/p>\n
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- There’s something special about a friendly little computer that smiles when it wakes up.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
I miss those little guys.<\/p>\n
This article was inspired by Don Crabb’s “The Perfect Little Mac” (sadly no longer online). He calls his idea The New Mac, a color successor the the compact Mac heritage. I recommend you read his article to see how Apple could think different about reaching the low-end market.<\/p>\n
Further Reading<\/h3>\n
- \n
- Fixing iMac<\/a><\/li>\n
- iMac: a Second Look<\/a><\/li>\n
- iMac: Nearly Perfect<\/a><\/li>\n
- No $500 Mac this year<\/a><\/li>\n
- Gee3: Let’s Have an Inexpensive Mac!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
keywords: #compactmac<\/p>\n
short link: https:\/\/goo.gl\/7XNqnj<\/p>\n
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