![]() This humble shoebox-sized machine had a simplicity that instantly empowered you. Selecting and moving text was made dramatically easier by the then-quaint mouse accompanying the keyboard. Words appeared with the clarity of text on a printed page - and for the first time, ordinary people had the power to format text as professional printers did. Even the simplest tasks required memorizing the proper intonations, then executing several exacting steps.īut the Macintosh was friendly. They looked unfriendly, with the letters of text growing in sickly phosphorescence. Until that point, personal computers were locked in an esoteric realm of codes and commands. To understand that, you must realize how much 1984 really was not like 2014. From the instant the woman running the demo switched on that strange-looking contraption (inspired in part by the Cuisinart food processor), I knew the Macintosh would change millions of lives, including my own. Steven Levy writes about covering the introduction of the Mac for Rolling Stone.įirst, I met the machine. ![]() Here’s Steve Jobs introducing the original Mac in 1984 (a snippet of the full introduction video): Incredible that the Mac is still around the 90s were a dire time for Apple and it’s amazing to see the current fantastic iMacs and Macbooks that came after some epically bad mid-90s machines. Apple is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh with a special subsite.
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