Newest Color Classics?

[EvilCapitalist]

I read that the original CC/Performa 250 ran from January '93-May '94 and the CCII/Performa 275 ran from October '93 to November '95 (!) but I haven't seen anything newer than a '93 model in the wild.  Of my own machines, all the Color Classics were early-mid '93 and even my Color Classic II is November '93. 

I figure someone has to have seen/owned one of the machines from '94 and potentially '95, though unless they were dirt cheap I don't know why someone would have picked a CCII/Performa 275 over just about anything else Apple was selling in '95. 

 

[Elfen]

Unfortunately the CCII was not sold in the USA. Our Canadian, Japanese, European and Australian members would know better.

But similarly, the LC Series was selling for cheaper than the CC, complete with the monitor in department stores under the Performa Badge. If the CCII was sold in the USA, sales would have been better to Apple. And who knows, maybe they would have  developed a 040 CC, like the 575 series.

 

[MinerAl]

Could it be that they manufactured them all in '93 and had enough stock/poor enough sales to sell them until '94 and '95?

 

[unity]

^ I doubt that. While Apple was GREAT at having way too much inventory on hand and channel stuffing like crazy, I think a two year supply is pushing it.

 

[Charlieman]

You'd be amazed at some of the kit on offer in the UK at a discount in the 1990s. Twin floppy LCs? The SE/30 was available on education lists at full price for months after it was discontinued in the USA.

The twin floppy LCs were discounted a bit but they were ridiculously overpriced. I reckon that they were for sale but that dealers held no stock. I doubt whether Apple dumped any SE/30s.

LCs and Performas that weren't any good were rejected by the market. Good Macs were bought. The Colour Classic II wasn't very good. Desktop Macs used 68040 processors and were heading for PPC 601 processors. Nobody, absolutely nobody, had considered that there was a market for small computers, maybe a Colour Classic III. Or an iMac.

 

[Elfen]

^ I doubt that. While Apple was GREAT at having way too much inventory on hand and channel stuffing like crazy, I think a two year supply is pushing it.

I don't think so. When the NYC Bd of ED bought Macs (mostly LC series, but a few others as well), there were some school who jumped on the computer literacy late some two/three years and thought that there would be no more Macs. But Apple took their orders and found LCs to give to these schools. Some of these boxes I seen look like they were pretty beaten up and dirty, being the bottom of the pile in some warehouse somewhere; but the machines inside were new (New-Old Stock; aka NOS).

 

[bom.cabedal]

As a student, I bought a new Classic II (a bit of an impulse buy, overlooking the fact that I couldn't actually afford it) in the summer of 1995, and it had a manufacture date of 1994. Fond memories of that machine – I wrote my Master's thesis on it. Should never have sold it.

 

[EvilCapitalist]

Interestingly enough, I just picked up a CC this weekend with a January '94 manufacture date.  The plastics seem ever-so-slightly less brittle than my '93 machines.

 

[rsolberg]

My CC has a May '93 date, but the plastics are remarkably good. The tabs on the logic board door (currently removed due to 575 board) are even both intact! Case yellowing is less than average, without any "tan lines" at panel seams. It's a Singapore assembled machine purchased new by the previous owner.