The Color Classic is also turned on with the keyboard power key. Unlike other compact Macs, the Color Classic can be shut down with the power key on the keyboard. You can control volume and contrast using controls on the front of the computer – no need to open control panels. The Color Classic had an internal microphone above the screen and a readily accessible motherboard: just open the rear panel and slide out the board for upgrades.
#MAC COLOR EMULATOR UPGRADE#
Since the CCII and Performa/LC 550 share the same motherboard, you can easily upgrade your Color Classic to Colour Classic II levels with a 550 motherboard.) (The Colour Classic II, with a 33 MHz CPU on a 32-bit bus and room for 36 MB of RAM, is what the Color Classic should have been. Yet despite poky performance, the Color Classic is a perennial favorite: it’s cute, and with some surgery it can support 640 x 480 on the internal display. Nice as it was to have color, the pedestrian performance due to the 16-bit motherboard earns the Color Classic the Compromised Mac label. “In many ways, the Color Classic is the compact Mac everyone’s been waiting for since, well, since 1984.” ( MacUser, April 1993) (The 512 x 384 pixel display matched the format of the 12″ monitor designed for the LC and LC II, which accepted the same Apple II card.) The Color Classic’s claim to fame is a tiny, remarkably crisp 10″ (9″ viewable) 512 x 384 pixel color monitor – and Apple IIe emulation using a PDS card. The only significant difference is the presence of a socket for adding a 68882 math coprocessor. Performa 250) shared the motherboard design of the LC II – equally limited in RAM expansion, constricted by a 16-bit data bus, and able to use 16-bit PDS cards designed for the LC.
The end of the Classic line in the North American market, the Color Classic (a.k.a.