The images show the birth of the Macintosh in 1984. The Macintosh was not the first computer to use both a mouse and a graphical interface, but it was the one which made them popular. When the macintosh was created, Apple was yet a young company (created in 1976) that sold mainly 8-bit Apple ][ computers, runnning DOS-3.3 (Not MS-Dos - not the same!) or ProDos.
So - here's a piece of candy for the eyes!
And now some history...
Steve
Jobs, presenting his "baby", the Macintosh. Thanks to the
work of engineers like Bill Atkinson, the operating system
of the Macintosh worked with less than 128 Kbytes of RAM
and only 100 Kilobytes of disk space. The Macintosh on the
left is running Multiplan, the predecessor of possibly the
most famous Microsoft software, Excel. The Macintosh in the
middle runs a program that was a revolution; MacPaint. The
Macintosh to the right runs the word processing software
MacWrite.
The
Macintosh Team of 1984.
Steve Jobs, and the most
famous workers of the team: Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson
and Burrell Smith. Jeff Raskin unfortunately is not in the
photo. He was the father of the Macintosh project, became
part of the team in 1982.
A
cut-out drawing of the original Macintosh 128. How simple
this machine was. The only parts were the screen, the
motherboard, the power supply and the floppy drive. And no
fan - the Macintosh was air-cooled!