History of Macintosh Computers

Macintosh is the brand name used for the personal computers developed by Apple Inc. To peek into the history of Macintosh computers, you must read on.

Mississauga, Canada (prHWY.com) October 4, 2012 - Macintosh is the brand name used for the personal computers developed by Apple Inc. To peek into the history of Macintosh computers, you must read on. Apple Inc, one of the most important names in the computer industry, develops and markets personal computers with the brand name, Macintosh. Macintosh is better known as Mac. The Macintosh 128K, released on January 24, 1984, was a commercial success. It was the first personal computer, which came with a mouse and a graphical user interface. With the passing years, Apple Inc evolved and is one of the business giants in the field of computer technology today.


Macintosh Computers History


Jef Raskin, a human computer interface expert from America and an employee of Apple, was the one who came up with the idea of building an affordable and easy-to-use computer. In 1979, Raskin started planning for building a team that would bring his idea into reality. He soon formed a team of Bill Atkinson, a Lisa team member, Burrell Smith, a service technician and others. Soon, they stated working on Raskin's idea. The first Macintosh board that their team developed had a 64KB RAM, used a Motorola microprocessor and featured a black and white bitmap display.


By the end of 1980, Smith, one of the team members of the first Macintosh team, created a board that ran on a higher speed, featured a higher-capacity RAM and supported a wider display. Steve Jobs, impressed by this design, began to take interest in this project. His ideas have highly influenced the design of the final Macintosh. Jobs resigned from Apple Computers in 1985.


The following years witnessed the development of desktop publishing and other applications such as Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, which helped in the expansion of the desktop publishing market. It was also during these years that the shortfalls of Mac were exposed to the users. It did not have a hard disk drive and had little memory. In 1986, Apple came up with Macintosh Plus. It supported some excellent features like the parallel SCSI interface, a megabyte of expandable RAM and the attachment of peripheral devices. The MacPlus was produced until 1990, making it the longest-lived Macintosh.


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