Video of the day: presentation of the first Macintosh 1984

Exactly 36 years ago, on January 24, 1984, Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh computer. It had a 9-inch black-and-white display, a Motorola 68000 processor clocked at 8 MHz, 128 KB of RAM, a 3.5-inch floppy disk slot and a $ 2,495 price tag. In terms of modern money, this is about 6,000 dollars or ≈371,740 rubles. Nevertheless, already in May, sales exceeded 70,000 devices.

The original Macintosh weighed almost 8 mg and came with a mouse, graphics and text editors. At the time, the announcement was seen as Apple's latest attempt to stop IBM's monopoly on the personal computer market. This is what the original presentation of the legendary computer looked like:

Apple is now one of the leading computer vendors in the world, with Mac sales in 2019 about 18 million devices. The Mac lineup is represented not only by computers, but also by iMac monoblocks and laptops of several lines.