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Apple's Macintosh Performa line debuted in 1992 with three models aimed squarely at home users. At Free Geek Twin Cities I found a Performa 400 and its monitor, complete with their boxes -- so let's check them out!

Free Geek Twin Cities: https://www.freegeektwincities.org

Sources:
Performa 200 photo: http://www.alessandrorighi.com/my-computer-collection/performaPerforma 600 photo: https://madeapple.com/macintosh-performa-600-600cd/
Dayton's store photo: https://vintagenewsdaily.com/inside-the-daytons-grand-forks-in-the-early-1980s-through-amazing-pics/
Marshall Field's store photo: https://www.toledoblade.com/business/retail/2005/09/21/Marshall-Field-s-name-to-vanish/stories/200509210037
Apple IIe card photo: https://www.ebay.com/p/20028923609
Apple IIe card with box: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e3/cf/61/e3cf6150668b05d33c96a726f17ffec5.jpg
Macintosh LC setup photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Museum_(Prague)_Macintosh_LC_(1990)_(cropped).jpg
Macintosh LC dual floppy photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macintosh_LC_(original)_-_front.jpg
Performa 637CD box: https://www.reddit.com/r/Appleboxes/comments/jcmjhv/retro_90s_macintosh_performa_boxes/
Performa 200 photo: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/90/ef/ca90ef57efd5378991ce47c593f1033f.jpg
Best Buy ad: https://geekologie.com/2011/09/21/best-buy-ad.jpg-

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Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).

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Checking Out an In-Box Mac Performa 400!

Apple's Macintosh Performa line debuted in 1992 with three models aimed squarely at home users. At Free Geek Twin Cities I found a Performa 400 and its monitor, complete with their boxes -- so let's check them out! Free Geek Twin Cities: https://www.freegeektwincities.org Sources: Performa 200 photo: http://www.alessandrorighi.com/my-computer-collection/performaPerforma 600 photo: https://madeapple.com/macintosh-performa-600-600cd/ Dayton's store photo: https://vintagenewsdaily.com/inside-the-daytons-grand-forks-in-the-early-1980s-through-amazing-pics/ Marshall Field's store photo: https://www.toledoblade.com/business/retail/2005/09/21/Marshall-Field-s-name-to-vanish/stories/200509210037 Apple IIe card photo: https://www.ebay.com/p/20028923609 Apple IIe card with box: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e3/cf/61/e3cf6150668b05d33c96a726f17ffec5.jpg Macintosh LC setup photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Museum_(Prague)_Macintosh_LC_(1990)_(cropped).jpg Macintosh LC dual floppy photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macintosh_LC_(original)_-_front.jpg Performa 637CD box: https://www.reddit.com/r/Appleboxes/comments/jcmjhv/retro_90s_macintosh_performa_boxes/ Performa 200 photo: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/90/ef/ca90ef57efd5378991ce47c593f1033f.jpg Best Buy ad: https://geekologie.com/2011/09/21/best-buy-ad.jpg- ---------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).

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Anonymous

We had a Performa 636CD that my mom got when she went back to college. I learned that it’s a not a good idea to buy a computer that’s on the outgoing processor architecture. Not her fault really, but we should have gotten one of those PowerPC upgrade cards at some point.

Patrick Bianchi

That monitor on the second one you showed is definitely a re-badged PC monitor too. I remember having one in 1992/1993 with my 386 Packard Bell that looked nearly exactly like that one. That was my first computer so I spent A LOT of time in front of it. lol