Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh computer 41-years-ago today on January 24, 1984 at Apple’s annual shareholder’s meeting in Cupertino, California. This device was based on the advanced, 32-bit architecture developed for Apple’s Lisa computer, and retailed for $2,495 USD ($7,532 in 2024).
Just like Lisa, Apple’s Macintosh uses its built-in user-interface software and high-resolution display to simulate the actual desktop working environment, complete with built-in notepads, file folders, a calculator and other office tools. Each Macintosh computer boasts 64 kilobytes of read-only memory (ROM) and 128 kilobytes of random-access memory (RAM).
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We believe that Lisa Technology represents the future direction of all personal computers. Macintosh makes this technology available for the first time to a broad audience–at a price and size unavailable from any other manufacturer. By virtue of the large amount of software written for them, the Apple II and the IBM PC became the personal-computer industry’s first two standards. We expect Macintosh to become the third industry standard,” said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman of the Board of Apple.
