2004 – 1997retired
Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game
“The stars were finally right, in 2015.”
“Low-cost by name, high-value in hearts — the pizza box that put Macs in every classroom.”
The Macintosh LC family was Apple's entry-level line of personal computers, its name literally standing for low-cost. Introduced in October 1990 alongside the Macintosh IIsi and Classic, the original LC delivered about three quarters of the performance of the Macintosh II for half the price. Apple also hoped to sell it to schools at the same price as an Apple IIGS, and when the Apple IIe Card arrived for the LC, the
The family grew through the LC II and LC III in 1992 and early 1993, all sharing the same pizza box form factor, before being joined by the all-in-one LC 500 series in mid-1993. In total, twelve LC models were produced, ending with the Power Macintosh 5300 LC. After seven years of service, the line was discontinued in 1997 — not cut down in its prime, but gracefully retired after a long run teaching a generation.
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“The stars were finally right, in 2015.”
“Dealt a final hand in 1997; the deck was good, the ending was not.”
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