April 3, 1995: Apple introduces the Macintosh LC 580, an affordable computer offering good multimedia capabilities on a budget. It quickly proves popular in the educational market. If you used a Mac ...

June 28, 1993: Apple ships the Macintosh LC 520, an “all-in-one” Mac targeted primarily at the education market. The first Macintosh ever shipped with a non-optional 2x CD-ROM drive, it is designed to ...

One of the notable side-effects of the very inexorability of technology’s progress is that while in the abstract we know that computers used to be more primitive in the past, it’s only when you ...

It might just be a case mod, but we love [Eduard]’s take on a modern Macintosh LC (translation). The donor motherboard came from a disused home server, and the LC came from [Eduard]’s childhood ...

There can be few among those of us who produce printed circuit boards, who have not at some point placed a component the wrong way round, or with the wrong footprint. Usually this can be rectified ...

Software developer Doug Brown took the computer apart and discovered that Apple had installed the capacitors in the wrong direction in its 'pizza box' Macintosh LC III computer. Downtown Doug Brown » ...

If you’re interested in Apple history marginalia, we have an auction for you. A rare foam model of a never-released Apple Macintosh prototype will appear at auction June 4. “There are plenty of ...

Did Apple really fit a capacitor backward on the Mac LC III? A multimeter-wielding retro fan has confirmed that, yes – somebody made a mistake decades ago, and a capacitor ended up installed the wrong ...

Multi-platform solutions are increasingly necessary in this modern era of multi-vendor networks and client/server computing. For many users, their "dream machine" would combine a DOS/Windows PC and a ...

In a world of beige-colored boxes, this one stood out. Powered by a 32MHz Motorola 68030, the Macintosh TV was painted black and paired with a black keyboard and mouse. It was an all-in-one computer ...