The Macintosh Classic is a personal computer sold by Apple Computer from October 15, 1990, to September 14, 1992. The Classic was similar to its predecessors: due to limited technological advances, it had the same 9-inch (23 cm) monochrome CRT display, 512 × 342 pixel resolution, and 4 megabyte (MB) memory limit of older Macintosh computers. Nevertheless, the Classic featured several improvements over the Macintosh Plus, which it replaced as Apple's low-end Mac computer. It was up to 25 percent faster than the Plus and included an Apple SuperDrive 3.5-inch (9 cm) floppy disk drive as standard. Apple released two versions that ranged in price from US$1,000 to $1,500. Reviewers' reactions were mixed; most focused on the slow processor performance and lack of expansion slots. They also noted that the Classic was powerful enough for word processing, spreadsheets, and databases. The price and availability of education software led to the computer's popularity in education.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1723:

António Manoel de Vilhena, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, laid the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Manoel

1960:

At a conference held in Baghdad, the governments of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela founded OPEC to help coordinate their petroleum policies and influence global oil prices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC

1979:

Afghan president Nur Muhammad Taraki was overthrown and later killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who succeeded him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Muhammad_Taraki

1992:

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be unconstitutional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Republic_of_Herzeg-Bosnia

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

bespawl: (transitive, obsolete) To daub, make foul, or soil (someone or something) with spawl or spittle. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bespawl

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.   --Jean-Luc Godard https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard