Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (1997)

To celebrate Apple’s 20th birthday, the company decided to release a special edition Mac, called the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, also known as TAM, was a really powerful PC for its time with a unique look that influenced future Mac computers’ design in later years.

I know what you’re thinking. If this was such a great, influential computer, why did it fail? Well, mostly it was because of its price. The TAM had a starting price of $7,499 ($12,288 adjusted for inflation)! That’s right; it was even more expensive than the current Mac Pro. At least the cheapest one. And just like now, back in the ’90s, people couldn’t afford such expensive computers, and this caused Apple to lower the price to $3,500 and then lower it again to $1995 after the company discontinued it.