Power Macintosh 7100
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| Power Macintosh 7100 | |
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| Manufacturer | Apple Computer |
| Introduced | March, 1994 |
| Discontinued | January, 1996 |
| Price | US$2900, 3300, 3500 |
| CPU | PowerPC 601, 66 and 80 MHz |
| RAM | 8 MB, expandable to 136 MB, 80 ns 72 pin SIMM |
| OS | System 7.1.2, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9 |
The Power Macintosh 7100 was a high-end Apple Macintosh personal computer that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from March 1994 to January 1996. The PowerMac 7100 was a faster, more expandable Power Macintosh 6100, and was a part of the original Power Macintosh line along with it. It came in a slightly restyled Macintosh IIvx case, and received a speed increase to 80 MHz (from its original 66 MHz) in January 1995. When it was discontinued it was succeeded by two new models, the Power Macintosh 7200 and the Power Macintosh 7500.
A higher-priced audio-visual variant (the 7100AV) included a 2MB VRAM card with s-video in/out. Non-AV 7100s had a video card containing 1MB VRAM and no s-video in/out capability.
[edit] Codename Lawsuit
The Power Macintosh 7100's internal code name was "Carl Sagan," in honor of the astronomer. When Sagan learned of this internal usage, he sued Apple Computer to force the company to use a different project name; other projects at that time had names like "Cold fusion" and "Piltdown Man", and he was displeased at being associated with what he considered pseudoscience. Though Sagan lost the suit, Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway, renaming the project "BHA" (Butthead Astronomer). Sagan sued Apple for libel over the new name, claiming that it subjected him to contempt and ridicule. Sagan lost this lawsuit as well but the 7100 saw another name change, becoming known internally as "LAW" (Lawyers Are Wimps).
