{"id":4186,"date":"2022-01-19T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T11:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/computerscienced.co.uk\/site\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2022-01-19T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T11:44:09","slug":"this-week-in-cs-history-22-1-1984-apple-launches-the-macintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerscienced.co.uk\/site\/this-week-in-cs-history-22-1-1984-apple-launches-the-macintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in CS History &#8211; 22\/1\/1984 &#8211; Apple launches the Macintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apple launched the Macintosh (also known as the Macintosh 128K) on January 22, 1984. The Macintosh was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a graphical user interface and a mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/computerscienced.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/650px-Computer_macintosh_128k_1984_all_about_Apple_onlus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4187 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/computerscienced.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/650px-Computer_macintosh_128k_1984_all_about_Apple_onlus.jpg 650w, https:\/\/computerscienced.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/650px-Computer_macintosh_128k_1984_all_about_Apple_onlus-600x553.jpg 600w, https:\/\/computerscienced.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/650px-Computer_macintosh_128k_1984_all_about_Apple_onlus-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/computerscienced.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/650px-Computer_macintosh_128k_1984_all_about_Apple_onlus-50x46.jpg 50w, https:\/\/computerscienced.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/650px-Computer_macintosh_128k_1984_all_about_Apple_onlus-100x92.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">The Macintosh was introduced by a $1.5 million advertisement directed by Ridley Scott during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. It was the first time that a computer company had advertised on television and it was a huge success. The advert showed a dystopian 1984 as imagined in the George Orwell novel &#8216;1984&#8217;. A woman throws a hammer into a screen displaying &#8216;Big Brother&#8217; apparently meant to symbolise IBM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">The advert didn&#8217;t show the Macintosh itself, just the Apple logo.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The original Macintosh used an 8 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU, 128 KB of RAM, and a 400 KB floppy disk drive for storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple launched the Macintosh (also known as the Macintosh 128K) on January 22, 1984. 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