The first Black Mac

All in one unit includes remote 
and lacks CD caddy, black keyboard and black one button mouse

Slideshow link 
http://s705.photobucket.com/albums/ww54/yojamey/Mac%20TV/?albumview=slideshow
and  http://lowendmac.com/500/mactv.jpg


Mac TV 
Macintosh TV

Includes functional all-in-one unit loaded with software, power cord, remote, 
HyperCard User's Guide (030-3081-C), Macintosh System Software User's Guide 
Version 6.0 (030-3281-A), Macintosh Utilities User's Guide (030-3283-A)
My mother recently retired and has not used this computer since before the dawn 
of the internet in the late 90's...It has been in storage ever since.  She 
inadvertently discarded the CD caddy, Keyboard & Mouse when she downsized her 
home. $299+ shipping or pick up from Santa Barbara CA 93105 (55lbs box 
19x20x30") or best offer


Read all about it
Links
www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/mactv.html
http://lowendmac.com/500/macintosh-tv.html

Macintosh 500 Series
Macintosh TV

Overview
The first cable-ready Macintosh! No, not for a cable modem, but for cable TV.
More or less a black LC 520 (complete with a black mouse and black keyboard), 
Macintosh TV let you watch 16-bit TV or use 8-bit graphics. (Assuming you were 
in the US, Canada, or some other country using NTSC video. Mac TV didn't 
support any other broadcast standard.)
This was perhaps the oddest Macintosh ever. It was the last desktop Mac with a 
68030 processor, the first with a built-in TV tuner, the first black desktop 
Mac, and the first Mac to ship with a remote control. It is the only model in 
the "500 Series" that doesn't have an available PDS; that gave way to the TV 
tunder. The built-in 14" Trinitron monitor displays 16-bit TV images, but only 
8-bit computer graphics. Software allowed it to capture a single frame from the 
TV as a PICT file.
Alas, you can't watch TV and compute at the same time. It was an interesting 
experiment, marketed exclusively through consumer electronic channels. With a 
68040 CPU, the option of watching TV in a small window while computing, or the 
ability to capture TV as a QuickTime movie, and this could have been a serious 
contender. Instead, it is a curious footnote in Apple's history.
Despite using a 32 MHz CPU, Mac TV is about 15% slower than the 25 MHz LC III 
and LC 520 because it uses a 16 MHz data bus. Cleverly designed in some ways, 
intentionally crippled in others, Mac TV merits the Road Apple label. The 
biggest drawbacks are a complete lack of upgrade options (without losing the TV 
features) and an 8 MB memory ceiling.
Regardless, this Mac looked great in black. Too bad only 10,000 were ever 
produced, making it perhaps the most rare Mac ever.



      

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