Apples Pippin console launched 30 years ago today shunned by the public as too expensive and too slow, only 42,000 units were sold
News Source : Tom's Hardware UK
News Summary
- From its launch on April 21, 1996, this expensive device with lethargic performance only sold ~42,000 units worldwide.
- The Pippin was put out of its misery shortly after Steve Jobs returned to the helm in 1997.
- It used a stripped-down version of Apple’s old System 7.5.2 at launch.
- This OS was long in the tooth at the time, and was well known for its less-than-ideal cooperative multitasking, lack of protected memory, and 68K emulation overhead.
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