The
Power Macintosh 6100 was
Apple Computer's first computer to use the new
PowerPC RISC type processor created by
IBM and
Motorola. It came in the "pizza box" style low-profile case, and superseded the
Quadra series that used Motorola's
68040 processor, Apple's previous high end workstation line. It was the earliest Macintosh model able to run
Mac OS 9.