36 years ago today the Macintosh was revealed!!
On this day in 1984, Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh at Apple’s annual shareholder’s meeting in Cupertino. The brand spanking new computer was equipped with a 9-inch black and white display, an 8MHz Motorola 68000 processor, 128KB of RAM, a 3.5-inch floppy drive, and cost, wait for it, $2,495 ( which is about $6000 clams in today’s money. That’s a lot of clams, guys).
It was also a very solid 17 pounds. Egads.
This is the first thing people saw on screen when they saw the Mac or the first time:
Hello, I’m Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag.
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I’d like to share with you a maxim I thought of the first time I met an IBM mainframe: NEVER TRUST A COMPUTER YOU CAN’T LIFT!
Obviously, I can talk, but right now I’d like to sit back and listen. So, it is with considerable pride that I introduce a man who’s been like a father to me… STEVE JOBS.
Pretty cool/creepy!
Here’s the 1984 Super Bowl ad that Apple invested in and debuted days before the Macintosh was unveiled:
After the Macintosh, Apple introduced a bunch of iterations, from the Macintosh II, to the PowerBook, the iBook, to where we are no, with the current Mac lineup including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini, and Mac Pro.
Maybe this Super Bowl we’ll see an ad for another industry changing device! You know, when the 49ers win. When that happens.
Apple, Cool Features | iPhone-Antidote | 
January 24, 2020 4:04 pm
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