Amaya Toman On January 24, 1984, Apple began distributing its first Mac - the Macintosh 128K. Macintosh brought a nice-looking graphical interface and control peripheral in the form of a mouse to the offices and homes of ordinary users. The computer that Apple lured the public to at the Super Bowl with its famous "1984" commercial has gone down in computing history as one of the most important personal computers of all time.
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The origins of the Macintosh project date back to the 500s. Its "forefather" is considered to be Jef Raskin, who then came up with the idea of building an easy-to-use personal computer that almost anyone could afford. Raskin had an idea of a price around $1298, with the Apple II at the time costing $XNUMX.
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Steve Jobs had a slightly different opinion about the price of an affordable personal computer from Apple, which led Raskin to come up with his own computer called the Canon Cat a few years later. The name of the upcoming computer from Apple was originally supposed to be written "McIntosh" as a reference to Raskin's favorite variety of apples, but due to the similarity with the name McIntosh Laboratory, Apple eventually decided on a different shape.
Although the Macintosh was neither Apple's first computer aimed at the mass market, nor was it the first computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse, it is still considered one of the most important milestones in computer history. The Macintosh 128K was fitted with an 8Hz processor and equipped with two serial ports along with a nine-inch black and white monitor. It ran the Mac OS 1.0 operating system and its price was approximately 53 crowns. Although the sales of the first Macintosh were not astronomically dizzying by any means (but they could not be considered downright weak in any case), this model started a major era of computers from Apple, and its successors already fared significantly better on the market. The Macintosh came with MacWrite and MacPaint, and Apple invested quite a bit of money in promoting it. In addition to the aforementioned "800" spot, he also promoted it with a 1984-page special post-election issue of Newsweek magazine and a "Test Drive a Macintosh" campaign, in which those interested in the new Mac who had a credit card could buy the new computer at home for a day-long free trial. In April 39, Apple could boast of 1984 Macintoshes sold.
