“If you’re a longtime fan of the Macintosh platform, chances are you are a bit of a collector and a historian,” Benj Edwards reports for Macworld. “Aside from their being endearing machines that earned user loyalty, Macs retained their usefulness far longer than most PCs, encouraging people to hang on to them. Who among you doesn’t have an old Mac in your closet?”
“It may be time to pay your closet a visit, because that machine gathering dust beside your old ski boots may represent one of the last surviving examples of a rare breed of Macintosh,” Edwards reports. “Many Macs are uncommon or hard to find today, but for the sake of brevity (and for fear of the dreaded TL;DR), I’ve decided to examine six of the rarest among them.”
Edwards reports, “Edwards reportsFor whatever reason—usually low production numbers or unpopularity—few of the following Macs have live on to the present day. If you own one of them, take it out of the closet and hang it like a taxidermied moose above your ski lodge mantle.”
Six of the rarest Macs:
• JLPGA PowerBook 170 (1992)
• Color Classic II (1993)
• Macintosh TV (1993)
• PowerBook 550c (1995)
• Twentieth Anniversary Mac (1997)
• Power Macintosh G3 All-in-One (1998) [aka “The Tooth.” – MDN Ed.]
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