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IBM WebExplorer
“Built in Research Triangle Park, browsed the early web, and asked for so little in return.”
“The x stood for 68030, and for a Mac that finally read your floppies right.”
The Macintosh IIx arrived in September 1988 as a thoughtful refresh of the original Macintosh II, swapping in a Motorola 68030 CPU and 68882 FPU while keeping the same 16 MHz clock. It was the first Macintosh to ship with the 1.44 MB SuperDrive as standard, retiring the 800 KB floppy. At US$7,769 — about $21,149 in today's money — it was a serious machine for serious work, and its 6 NuBus slots kept the expandable sp
Apple sold the IIx until October 1990, when it gave way to newer models in the same beloved case — the IIfx being the last to wear it. It ran happily up through System 7.5.5, and its modest 256-byte caches delivered an estimated 10–15% boost over its predecessor. The official end came on August 31, 1998, a long, dignified retirement for a machine that simply did its job well.
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“Built in Research Triangle Park, browsed the early web, and asked for so little in return.”
“The ancestor at every modern desk — 29,290 descendants and counting.”
“It taught the mouse where to go, then quietly closed its window.”