Happy 27th Birthday, Macintosh

Apple unveiled its first Macintosh-branded computer 27 years ago today. Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Macintosh on January 24, 1984 and received wild applause from the crowd of 3,000 people. The original Apple Macintosh was the first personal computer to be powered by the Mac operating system, then lovingly called System 1.0. The all-in-one beige case included a 9-inch monitor, a convenient handle and an accompanying keyboard and mouse. It also featured an 8 MHz processor with 128 KB DRAM, 16-bit data bus and non-upgradeable internal components.

It was originally introduced simply as the Apple Macintosh and was re-branded as the Macintosh 128K when its big brother, the Macintosh 512K, was introduced in September 1984. The history-making computer debuted with a price tag of US$2495. For those that want to relive a piece of history, Steve Job's unveiling of the Apple Macintosh is above, and the famous "1984" Ridley Scott TV commercial, which aired during Super Bowl XVIII, is after the break. Enjoy!

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Markclarisse

It's amazing to watch and almost 30yrs later, we can experience the same enthusiasm from the crowds present at Steve's Keynotes today....

February 02 2011 at 1:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

artasia_asa

superb.... nothing can beat macintosh....

January 24 2011 at 7:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

lmasanti

The Macintosh has a "Black and White" display, not a "gray scale" one.

I spent long hours ajusting the dithering, pixel by pixel, in MacPaint to get "wonderful greys."

All the way from the 128k to the top of the line the SE30 where incredibles machines.

January 24 2011 at 3:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tom

OK, figured this out. You have to have Google Analytics tracking cookies turned on for the video to show up. That's disturbing!

Hope you all can fix how your site behaves!

January 24 2011 at 12:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tom

Using Safari, with Click to Flash, neither the Jobs' introduction or the Ripley commercial show up above. There's just big white space!!

Turned off Click to Flash, reloaded page, the same. Any clues?

January 24 2011 at 12:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gary Katz

Take a look at some of the great Apple products from the past 30 years in this video posted by TUAW a few months back:

30 years in 2 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJsS_FIt0E

January 24 2011 at 12:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

anthony

I absolutely LOVE the almost imperceptible but completely "knowing" nod that starts at 3:59. Steve knows. He completely KNOWS.

January 24 2011 at 11:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike Aubert

I wish I had an original, but I do have a couple of Mac plus (c.1986), one of which is running on system 7 and I was using as a clock in my office (in screensaver mode) until very recently. You can still do useful work on one of these. What a classic!

January 24 2011 at 9:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Le Big Mac

Love the double-breasted suit and bowtie.

January 24 2011 at 9:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael MacISAAC

I have an original and it still works. Wish I could afford a new one.

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