{"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 – 22\/1\/1984 – Apple launches the Macintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

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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 ‘1984’. A woman throws a hammer into a screen displaying ‘Big Brother’ apparently meant to symbolise IBM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The advert didn’t show the Macintosh itself, just the Apple logo. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

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