Created by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

MACINTOSH

A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

• Released on January 24, 1984

• The first personal computer

• It came with a mouse and a graphical user interface

• It was such a success that it launched Apple Inc. to be one of the business giants in the field of computer technology today.

HOW IT CAME TO BE • Jef Raskin was the one who came up with the idea

of building an affordable and easy-to-use computer.

• He formed a team that included Bill Atkinson, Burrell Smith and others that would bring his idea to life.

• The first Macintosh board that their team developed had a 64KB RAM, used a Motorola microprocessor and featured a black and white bitmap display.

• Steve jobs took interest in the project and his ideas influenced the design of the final Macintosh.

NEW INNOVATIONS• Since it did not have a hard disk drive and had little memory, in 1986, Apple came up with Macintosh Plus. It supported some excellent features like the parallel SCSI interface, a megabyte of expandable RAM and the attachment of peripheral devices

• In 1987, Apple brought about HyperCard and MultiFinder, which endowed Macintosh with multitasking features

• In 1991, Macintosh came up with System 7, a 32-bit rewrite of their operating system

• The Mac Portable (1990) can be seen as the prototypical Mac laptop

THE INVENTION IF THE FIRST MACINTOSH LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF…….• Macintosh Plus (1986)

• Macintosh XL (1985)

• Macintosh II (1987)

• Macintosh SE (1987)

• Macintosh Portable (1989)

• Powerbook “First Mac Laptop” (1991)

• Macintosh Color Classic (1993)

• iMac (1998)

• iBook (1999) and many more

• http://www.buzzle.com/articles/history-of-macintosh-computers.html

• http://www.ehow.com/about_6628269_history-mac-computers.html

• http://www.smashinglists.com/15-unforgettable-mac-computers-old-is-gold/