Macintosh
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| Apple Macintosh Personal Computer | |
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| Manufacturer | Apple |
| Production years | 1984 |
| Production location | California, USA |
Personal Computer. Apple Macintosh Personal Computer, c.1984, with integral monitor and disk drive, model no. M0001P, s/n F5140X2, together with separate keyboard and mouse.
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Following from the Apple LISA, which also featured a GUI. The Macintosh 128K, the first Macintosh, was the first commercially successful personal computer to use images, rather than text, to communicate.
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The Macintosh is one of the first personal home computers to include a GUI, or Graphical user Interface. A GUI includes objects like mouse pointers, menus, and icon1s, whereas, prior the GUI, personal computers users required advanced knowledge in order to be able to do the simplest commands. The debut of the Macintosh was in 1984, and the manufacturers, Apple Co, made a somewhat surreal advert which has become considerably legendary anong computer savvy people.
— anon
The Macintosh introduced the desktop concept with this machine together with the basic folders that were later introduced by other operating systems a decade afterwards.
I bought one of these in 1987 for $1500 second hand and taught myself how to use a computer. I still use an apple mac to this day.
— anon
I remember being at university when we got the first mac - for some it felt like it wasn't a real computer!!!
— anon
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