{"id":109508,"date":"2017-12-09T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:01","slug":"apple-macintosh-went-on-sale-1984-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/apple-macintosh-went-on-sale-1984-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Macintosh went on sale, 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/S1t95tlWNwI\/AAAAAAAABo0\/yui4zYt_wYg\/s1600-h\/511px-Macintosh_128k_transparency.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/511px-macintosh_128k_transparency.png\" class=\"wp-image-109509\" width=\"170\" \/><\/a>In  April 1976 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple to  market their first personal computer, the Apple I, in kit form. A  little after a year later Wozniak and Jobs introduced the  ground-breaking Apple II, Wayne having sold his stake to his co-founders  when they incorporated the company. In 1980, the Apple III went on  sale, but it was not a great commercial success.<\/p>\n<p>By that time, an  Apple employee called Jeff Raskin had begun developing a cheap personal  computer called the Macintosh (named after his favourite apple, the  McIntosh). In 1979, a number of Apple employees including Raskin and  Jobs visited Xerox&#8217;s Palo Alto Research Center, where they saw a Xerox  Alto computer. The Alto ran an innovative graphical user interface (GUI)  controlled by a new device called a mouse, alongside the traditional  keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Apple began developing their own GUI to run not only on  the Macintosh, but also on a business machine that they had in  development called the Lisa. Jobs initially headed up the Lisa project,  but soon realised that the Macintosh was a better commercial prospect.  In 1981, a personality conflict between Raskin and Jobs resulted in  Raskin departing the Macintosh project team, which was taken over in  1982 by Jobs following him being forced out of the Lisa team.<\/p>\n<p>On  24th January 1984, the Apple Macintosh went on sale for $2,495. It had a  8Mhz Motorola 68000 processor and 128KB of RAM (boosted by a 64KB ROM  chip). The built in 9-inch black and white screen had a resolution of  512&#215;342 pixels. A 3.5-inch floppy drive was included with which software  was loaded and files could be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Two days prior to the  Macintosh going on sale, an Orwellian themed advertisement for the  Macintosh was shown during Super Bowl XVIII. This now famous advert was  directed by Ridley Scott and cost in the region of $1.5 million. Whether  due to this advertisement or not, the Macintosh proved an immediate  success, selling over 70,000 units within four months.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 1976 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple to market their first personal computer, the Apple I, in kit form. A little after a year later Wozniak and Jobs introduced the ground-breaking Apple II, Wayne having sold his stake to his co-founders when they incorporated the company. In 1980, the Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}