History Of Macintosh Computers

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Macintosh is the brand name used for the personal computers developed by Apple Inc. To peek into the history of Macintosh computers, you must read on. Apple Inc, one of the most important names in the
computer industry, develops and markets personal computers with the brand name, Macintosh.
Macintosh is better known as Mac. The Macintosh 128K, released on January 24, 1984, was a commercial success. It was the first personal computer, which came with a mouse and a graphical user interface. With the passing years, Apple Inc evolved and is one of the business giants in the field of computer technology today.

Macintosh Computers History

Jef Raskin, a human computer interface expert from America and an employee of Apple, was the one
who came up with the idea of building an affordable and easy-to-use computer. In 1979, Raskin started
planning for building a team that would bring his idea into reality. He soon formed a team of Bill
Atkinson, a Lisa team member, Burrell Smith, a service technician and others. Soon, they stated working
on Raskin's idea. The first Macintosh board that ...
... their team developed had a 64KB RAM, used a Motorola
microprocessor and featured a black and white bitmap display.

By the end of 1980, Smith, one of the team members of the first Macintosh team, created a board that
ran on a higher speed, featured a higher-capacity RAM and supported a wider display. Steve Jobs,
impressed by this design, began to take interest in this project. His ideas have highly influenced the
design of the final Macintosh. Jobs resigned from Apple Computers in 1985.

The following years witnessed the development of desktop publishing and other applications such as
Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, which helped in the expansion of the
desktop publishing market. It was also during these years that the shortfalls of Mac were exposed to the
users. It did not have a hard disk drive and had little memory. In 1986, Apple came up with Macintosh
Plus. It supported some excellent features like the parallel SCSI interface, a megabyte of expandable
RAM and the attachment of peripheral devices. The MacPlus was produced until 1990, making it the
longest-lived Macintosh.

In 1987, Apple brought about HyperCard and MultiFinder, which endowed Macintosh with multitasking
features. After Macintosh II, Macintosh SE was released. The Macintosh SE supported the Snow White
language and the Apple desktop bus mouse and keyboard.

Claris, a computer software company formed as a spin-off from Apple Computer in 1987, brought the
Pro series to the market. Their line of products included the MacPoint Pro, MacDraw Pro and others. By
the early 1990s, Claris had become immensely popular. Claris released ClarisWorks, which later came to

be known as AppleWorks.

In 1991, Macintosh came up with System 7, a 32-bit rewrite of their operating system. They soon
introduced Macintosh Quadra 700 and 900, both using the Motorola 68040 processor. They also
established the Apple Industrial Design Group to work on further developments in their operating
system. The year 1991 witnessed the creation of the PowerBook Range by Apple. In the following year,
Apple started selling their low-end Mac, Performa. In 1994, they started using the RISC PowerPC
architecture developed by the alliance of Apple Computer, IBM and Motorola. Their new product line
was a huge success.

Apple has always had to face fierce competition from Intel and Microsoft. After the return of Steve Jobs,
Apple had a 'no looking back'. They introduced an all-in-one Macintosh and called it iMac. It was a great
success. In 1999, they came up with iBook, their first laptop computer. The Mac Mini launched in 2005,
is the least expensive Mac, till today. Mac OS 9 evolved to Mac OS X that was based on Unix. Mac OS X
came up in 2000. The MAC OS remains to be one of the most popular operating systems.

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