The TAM was announced almost 20 years to the day after Jobs and Wozniak incorporated the company, in January 1997 at MacWorld Expo, San Francisco.
To reduce development time, many off-the-shelf components were used on the new computer's internals. However, the design team had already been working on several "dream" concepts, and soon settled on the most feasible of those: the (almost) "All-in-One" LCD-based design. The normal time-span to develop a new Macintosh computer was 18+ months, although available time was less. As this milestone arrived and came to the attention of Apple's then-current executives, the decision was made to release a limited edition Macintosh computer to celebrate-and so the "Spartacus" (or "Pomona", or "Smoke & Mirrors") project was born. ContentsĪpril 1, 1996, marked 20 years since the day that Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne came together to form Apple Computer. The machine was a technological showcase of the day, boasting a number of features beyond simple computing, and with a price tag aimed at the "executive" market. The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (or "TAM") is a limited-edition personal computer released in 1997 to mark Apple's 20th birthday. Rear Ports: Variable Level Sound In Sound Out DB-25 SCSI TV Tuner FM Tuner Rear Side Ports: 1 ADB 2 DIN-8 GeoPorts DB-25 SCSI S-Video In Sound Line In Via Expansion Slots: 1 Comm Slot 2 PCI Slot Optical Drive: 4× CD-ROM Hard Drive: 2 GB IDE Floppy Drive: Apple SuperDriveĨ00×600 or 640×480 up to 16-bits ATI 3D RAGE 2 chip set RAM: 2 slots 32 MiB, max 128 MiB (2 × 64 MB) (Memory Spec: 168-pin, 5 V, 60+ ns EDO or FPM DIMMs) VRAM: 2 MB
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Mac OS 7.6.1 (initial OS) – Mac OS 9.1 (final OS)Ģ50 MHz PowerPC 603e L2 Cache: 256 KiB, max 1 MiB Bus: 50 MHz "Pomona", "Smoke & Mirrors", "Spartacus"