The Macintosh celebrates its 27th birthday

Historical text from HellasProject (2009–2014). It is not current advice or a present-day service.

Source: MacLife.gr – written by MihalisGR

“Today the Macintosh computer celebrates its 27th birthday, having first been presented by Steve Jobs on 24 January 1984.”

Exactly 27 years ago Apple’s first Macintosh computer made its debut. The presentation took place on 24 January 1984, to an audience of three thousand. The original Apple Macintosh was the first computer to run the Mac operating system, then called System 1.0 and renamed Mac OS in 1997. The all-in-one enclosure included a nine-inch screen and a practical handle, and it came with keyboard and mouse. As for hardware, the first Mac had an 8 MHz processor and 128 KB of DRAM, a 16-bit data bus, and accepted no upgrades.

It was first presented as Apple Macintosh and renamed Macintosh 128K when the larger Macintosh 512K appeared in September 1984. The now-historic computer debuted at $2495. From that period also comes the company’s well-known “1984” TV ad, directed by Ridley Scott.

From 1984 to 1998 the Macintosh had many ups and downs on the way to success. With Steve Jobs’s return to Apple and the iMac in ’98, Mac computers have been on an upward path to this day. You could read more detail on Macintosh history here.