Amaya Toman In today's return to the past, we will again talk about the Apple company - this time in connection with the Macintosh Performa computer, which was introduced at the end of May 1996. But today also marks another very interesting anniversary - in 1987, the CompuServer company came up with a new standard for digital images.
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The GIF Is Born (1987)
On May 28, 1987, CompuServer came up with a new standard for digital images. The new standard was called Graphics Interchange Format - GIF for short - and was labeled 87a at the time of its release. Two years later, CompuServe came up with a new, expanded version of this format, called 89a. It was the second version just mentioned, which offered support for multiple images and thus also short, simple animations, interlacing, or perhaps the ability to save metadata. The greatest popularity of images in GIF format was achieved only with the mass expansion of the Internet. However, there were initially problems associated with the use of GIFs, which were related to the infringement of the relevant patents. For this reason, a "safe" alternative to GIFs in the form of PNG format was created over time.
Macintosh Performa (1996)
On May 28, 1996, Apple introduced its computer called the Macintosh Performa 6320CD. The Macintosh Performa was equipped with a 120 MHz PowerPC 603e processor and equipped with a 1,23 GB hard disk. Apple also equipped its Macintosh Performa with a CD drive. The price of this model was 2 dollars, and computers belonging to this product line were sold between 599 and 1992. A total of sixty-four models of this series gradually saw the light of day, the successor to the Macintosh Performa became the Power Macintosh.
