Massively Speeding Up Apple's First Power Mac!
In the fast-paced tech scene of the 1990s, computers were often obsolete after just a few years. As such, Apple's first-generation PowerPC-based computers from 1994 were definitely feeling their age by the end of the decade...but in the case of this Power Mac 7100, third-party manufacturers had other plans. Sources: "Battle for the Desktop," PC Magazine, May 31, 1994. "The Power Mac Arrives," Macworld, May 1994. "Sound and Vision," MacUser, October 1993. "AV Cyclone and Tempest," Macworld, September 1993. PowerPC 601 chip photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "Long Road to a Native OS," Macworld, April 1995. "Cosmos Carl," The Mac Bathroom Reader by Owen Linzmayer. Carl Sagan photo: https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/... "The Missing Links," New Scientist, July 2, 1981. "Cold Fusion," Popular Science, August 1993. Carl Sagan photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "Letters," MacWEEK, January 10, 1994. "WYSIWYG," Computerworld, January 10, 1994. Carl Sagan v. Apple Computer, 1994: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_ca... "Code Names Uncovered," Apple Confidential 2.0 by Owen Linzmayer. Apple campus photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "G3 Upgrade Cards," Macworld, March 1999. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: / thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com) and Soundstripe (https://www.soundstripe.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Bo....

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