Apple commemorates Macintosh’s 30th birthday
Apple’s homepage is paying respects to a computer that's credited with revolutionizing personal computing 30 years ago.
The Macintosh was introduced to the world by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at a press event on Jan. 24, 1984. There were about 2,500 in attendance that day at the Flint Center in Cupertino, Calif.
The computer featured an easy to use graphical user interface, 9-inch screen and 3 1/2 inch floppy drive. Inside the cream-colored exterior, the Mac had a 32-bit Motorola processor, 128 kilobytes of random access memory (RAM) and a 400-kilobyte disk drive.
But it did air to about 100 million viewers and made front-page news the following day. The rest, as they say, is history. Over the years, Apple fans saw the Mac evolve into several iterations that include the iconic candy-colored iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro.
Read more about the Mac’s incredible journey at CBS News’ sister site CNET, where Apple executives reflect on 30 years of the Mac, Larry Magid posts his original L.A. Times review and former CEO John Scully recalls the Mac launch.
