Macintosh LC family

Front view of an Apple Macintosh LC II computer with Macintosh 12" RGB display, keyboard and mouse

The Macintosh LC is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1990 to 1997.

Introduced alongside the Macintosh IIsi and Macintosh Classic as part of a new wave of lower-priced Macintosh computers, the LC offered the same overall performance as the Macintosh II for half the price.[1] Part of Apple's goal was to produce a machine that could be sold to school boards for the same price as an Apple IIGS, [2] a machine that was very successful in the education market. Not long after the Apple IIe Card was introduced for the LC, Apple officially announced the retirement of the IIGS, as the company wanted to focus its sales and marketing efforts on the LC.[3]

The original Macintosh LC was introduced in October 1990, with updates in the form of the LC II and LC III in 1992 and early 1993. These early models all shared the same pizza box form factor, and were joined by the Macintosh LC 500 series of all-in-one desktop machines in mid-1993. A total of twelve different LC models were produced by the company, the last of which, the Power Macintosh 5300 LC, was on sale until early 1997.

  1. ^ Poole, Lon (December 1990). "The Macintosh Family Evolves". MacWorld Magazine. pp. 168–175.
  2. ^ Spencer, Cheryl (December 1990). "Mac LC - What's been missing from the Macintosh line? The reasonably priced Macintosh LC with 16-bit color and Apple II emulation abilities". MacWorld Magazine. pp. 180–187.
  3. ^ Weyhrich, Steven. "The Apple IIGS - The Beginning of the End". apple2history.org. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2017.