powerbook 100

Before the powerbook 100 portability was relative. Those who could afford a mac plus (1986) or a macintosh portable (1989) could already reach before 1991 in the possession of a mobile mac.

But the first truly portable mac was just the powerbook 100.  A floppy drive was the only external (the macbook air says hello from the distant future) but the powerbook 100 came with a portable LCD display with backlight, a 16 MHz CPU 68000 and long battery life.

The powerbook 100 was designed and manufactured by sony.  $4,000 cheaper than the macintosh portable, a third of the weight as slowly and no internal floppy disk drive - with this recipe took apple the next start-up. The powerbook 100 has received relatively good reviews, found numerous customers and coined a product name, apple retained nearly 15 years.

powerbook 100 


Minimum OS: 7.1

Maximum OS: 7.5.5

Introduced: October 1991

Terminated: August 1992


Processor

CPU: Motorola MC68HC000

CPU Speed: 16 MHz

FPU: none

Bus Speed: 16 MHz

Register Width: 32-bit

Data Bus Width: 16-bit

Address Bus Width: 32-bit

ROM: 256 kB

RAM Type: unique

Min RAM Speed: 100 ns

Onboard RAM: 2 MB

RAM slots: 1

Maximum RAM: 8 MB

Expansion Slots: modem


Video

Screen: Passive Matrix

Max Resolution: 1 bit 640x400


Storage

Hard Drive: 20-40 MB

Floppy Drive: external, HDI-20 port


Input/Output

ADB: 1

Serial: 2 Mini DIN-8

SCSI: HDI-30

Audio In: mono 16 bit mini

Speaker: mono

Microphone: mono 8 bit