TCoCD: Apple Macintosh 128k

front view
(click for larger picture, 24.7k)

rear view
(click for larger picture, 25.3k)

CPU/Clock

68000 / 8 MHz

ROM

64 KByte

RAM (expandable)

128 KByte

custom chips

text display

graphics display

512 * 384
(built-in 9" black & white)

sound

keyboard

detached typewriter style
(58 keys)

interfaces

mouse port (DB9f)
external floppy connector (DB19f)
2 * serial (DB9f)
loudspeaker jack (klinke f)
keyboard connector (RJ45-4f)

mass storage

3½" floppy disk (400 KByte)

245 mm

345 mm

275 mm

7.4 kg

operating system

Mac OS 1.0 - 7.0.1P

peripherals

mouse
keyboard
numeric keypad
ext. floppy disk

announced

released

24. January 1984

discontinued

01. October 1985


Connectors.	Label on the back. On the very first Macintoshes it only says Macintosh, not Macintosh 128k.


Complete system with mouse and keyboard.	Screenshot.	Macintosh 128k Mainboard.


Macintosh 128k with open case.	Open Macintosh 128k: bottom with mainboard and floppy.	Open Macintosh 128k: side with analog board.


Screws beneath the carrying handle.	Special opening tool.	Close-up of the case cracker.
The Macintosh's case was designed not to be opened by the customer but by qualified dealers only. For this reason Apple offered a specialized tool to remove the deeply lowered screws and to seperate the two halfs of the case. Its one end is a Torx T15 screwdriver and the other one a kind of case cracker.