{"id":25820,"date":"2026-08-24T09:06:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=25820"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:03:10","slug":"vin209","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin209\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Macintosh Color Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Apple Macintosh Color Classic\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\">Vintage Computing Collection<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"apple-macintosh-color-classic\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Apple Macintosh Color Classic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Vin209]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Macintosh Color Classic (1993) was Apple\u2019s first compact all-in-one Macintosh with a built-in color display: a distinctive 10-inch Sony Trinitron CRT in the familiar original-Mac form factor, powered by a 16 MHz Motorola 68030. It bridged Apple\u2019s monochrome compact Macs into color while offering an Apple IIe expansion card option which was an important migration path for schools invested in Apple II software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Manufacturer<\/strong>: Apple Computer, Inc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Personal Computer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Released<\/strong>: February 10, 1993<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>List price<\/strong>:  $3,350 (*adjusted for inflation)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>MIPS<\/strong>:&nbsp;3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Don<\/strong><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">a<\/strong><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">ted by<\/strong>: T. Warren Christopher<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Macintosh Color Classic [Vin209] The Macintosh Color Classic (1993) was Apple\u2019s first compact all-in-one Macintosh with a built-in color display: a distinctive 10-inch Sony Trinitron CRT in the familiar original-Mac form factor, powered by a 16 MHz Motorola 68030. It bridged Apple\u2019s monochrome compact Macs into color while offering an Apple IIe expansion card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":0,"parent":19704,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[130,123],"class_list":["post-25820","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-mac","cu_page_type-vintage-inventory"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25845,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25820\/revisions\/25845"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=25820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}