Geek Posted January 24, 2011 Posted January 24, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/happy-birthday-mac-27.jpg" alt="happy-birthday-mac-27" title="happy-birthday-mac-27" width="375" height="440" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12027" /></p> <p>Happy Birthday to the Mac! Apple introduced the very first Macintosh on January 24, 1984, beginning an era that is still going strong 27 years later. </p> <p>Here are some fun facts about the first ever Mac, known as the Macintosh 128k:</p> <ul> <li>It ran Mac OS System 1.0 (if you’re already nostalgic <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/07/run-classic-mac-os-on-iphone-or-ipod-touch/">you can run classic Mac OS on your iPhone</a> today)</li> <li>It featured an 8 MHz processor, 128kb of RAM, 9″ black and white display with a 512×342 resolution, and a 3.5″ disk drive</li> <li>The base price started at $2,495, which is $5,095 in todays inflation adjusted dollars, an additional external disk drive was another $495</li> <li>The first Mac shipped with two pieces of software, MacWrite and MacPaint, these apps were chosen to emphasize the operating systems revolutionary Graphical User Interface</li> <li>Apple’s obsession with reducing hardware noise started at the very beginning, with the original Mac not including a fan in order to insure quiet operation</li> <li>The original Mac 128k was not considered to be upgradeable, any upgrades required an entirely new motherboard</li> <li>The Mac 128k had the signatures of Apple’s Macintosh division engraved on the inside of the case (see picture below)</li> <li>Although it was announced several months prior, most people first heard of the Mac upon airing of the now famous 1984 Super Bowl commercial (shown below)</li> </ul> <p>These are the Macintosh teams signatures inside the Mac 128k case, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/steve-jobs/">Steve Jobs</a> and Woz are included: <span id="more-12026"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mac-128k-signatures.jpg" alt="mac 128k signatures" title="mac 128k signatures" width="610" height="658" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028" /></p> <p>This is what MacPaint looked like: <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MacPaint-screenshot.gif" alt="MacPaint screenshot" title="MacPaint screenshot" width="511" height="342" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12031" /></p> <p>And don’t forget the very first and famous Macintosh commercial that aired during the 1984 Super Bowl, embedded below: <iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/R706isyDrqI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe></p> <p>It’s amazing how far things have come, isn’t it? </p> <p>The above pictures of the Mac 128k are from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K">Wikipedia</a>.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f6-GWPtKaKFoHxbEhanKZLIpW3U/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f6-GWPtKaKFoHxbEhanKZLIpW3U/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f6-GWPtKaKFoHxbEhanKZLIpW3U/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f6-GWPtKaKFoHxbEhanKZLIpW3U/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=LGi6-rrzupY:8XAJaKeFxFA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=LGi6-rrzupY:8XAJaKeFxFA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=LGi6-rrzupY:8XAJaKeFxFA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=LGi6-rrzupY:8XAJaKeFxFA:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=LGi6-rrzupY:8XAJaKeFxFA:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=LGi6-rrzupY:8XAJaKeFxFA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=LGi6-rrzupY:8XAJaKeFxFA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/LGi6-rrzupY" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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