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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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