Power Macintosh 7200

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Power Macintosh 7200
Manufacturer	Apple Computer
Introduced	August 7, 1995
Discontinued	July 1, 1996
Price	US$1700, 1900
CPU	PowerPC 601, 75 - 120 MHz
RAM	8 MiB, expandable to 512 MiB, 70 ns 168-pin DIMM
OS	System 7.5.2

The Power Macintosh 7200 (Codename: "Catalyst"; the 90 MHz model was also sold in Japan as the Power Macintosh 7215, and the 120 MHz model with bundled server software as the Apple Workgroup Server 7250: additionally, it was available in Europe in an 8100-style case as the Power Macintosh 8200) is a personal computer that is a part of Apple Computer's Power Macintosh series of Macintosh computers. It was introduced in August 1995 as a successor to the Power Macintosh 7100, and was discontinued in favor of the Power Macintosh 7300 in July 1996.

The Power Macintosh 7200 is part of the "second wave" of Power Macintoshes, which replaced the NuBus of the Power Macintosh x1xx models with PCI. It was introduced at the same time as the Power Macintosh 8500 and the Power Macintosh 7500. With the latter, it also shares the then-new "Outrigger" case. Unlike the 7500, however, the 7200 does not have video input capabilities, and it also lacks the 7500's processor daughtercard, making it much harder to upgrade. It was launched at processor speeds of 75 and 90 MHz, and the slower model was replaced by a 120 MHz model in February 1996. The 120MHz model was also available in a "PC compatible" variant, which came with an additional 100 MHz Pentium processor on a PCI card.