Today, on January 24th. The Apple Macintosh turned 26 years old. Way before my time but my grandfather told me an interesting story once about the first time he saw a computer (An Apple II and an IBM-PC).
Command lines, remembering the commands to type to get where you needed to go. But he learned. He bought an Apple II for (I think $2600) in 1979. And later in 1981 to compete with the Apple II, IBM released the IBM-PC which my grandfather also used.
These all had command lines, Apple DOS 3 in the Apple II and MS-DOS in the IBM-PC.
Xerox PARC (Palo alto research center) had been working on the GUI (a system called Smalltalk) for the Xerox Star (PC) but the Xerox executives didn't want the technology and the wizards who developed the core of the GUI didn't know how to market it.
Parc invited Steve Jobs of Apple Computer Inc. in 1979 to come take a look at the technology Parc had created. Jobs was impressed and was given permission to bring some of his team from Apple back to Parc.
A Scientist from Parc (along with others) went back to Apple Computer inc. to help develop further concepts of the GUI later called Office OS for the Apple Lisa computer after Apple and Xerox came to agreement. Xerox would allow Apple Computer access to the GUI and it's concepts for a large share of Apple's stock.
The Lisa was a big computer for businesses but the price tag was $10,000 and too high for even a lot of businesses to afford.
The Macintosh had began development in 1979 and Steve Jobs joined the team before the Lisa was released in 1983. Though the Lisa had a high price tag, it was the first commercial computer to use a GUI instead of a command line interface.
Command line interface above.
Lisa OS above.
The goal of the Macintosh was to create a cheaper, faster Lisa. The Macintosh was released in January 24th 1984 at the price of $2,500. It was the first commercially successful computer to use the GUI and was the stepping stone on which other Operating Systems followed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0FtgZNOD44
A video of the introduction of the Macintosh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
"1984" commercial for Macintosh.
Enjoy my fellow technology geeks! Love Apple or hate em'. The Macintosh did indeed change the world of computing!
Command lines, remembering the commands to type to get where you needed to go. But he learned. He bought an Apple II for (I think $2600) in 1979. And later in 1981 to compete with the Apple II, IBM released the IBM-PC which my grandfather also used.
These all had command lines, Apple DOS 3 in the Apple II and MS-DOS in the IBM-PC.
Xerox PARC (Palo alto research center) had been working on the GUI (a system called Smalltalk) for the Xerox Star (PC) but the Xerox executives didn't want the technology and the wizards who developed the core of the GUI didn't know how to market it.
Parc invited Steve Jobs of Apple Computer Inc. in 1979 to come take a look at the technology Parc had created. Jobs was impressed and was given permission to bring some of his team from Apple back to Parc.
A Scientist from Parc (along with others) went back to Apple Computer inc. to help develop further concepts of the GUI later called Office OS for the Apple Lisa computer after Apple and Xerox came to agreement. Xerox would allow Apple Computer access to the GUI and it's concepts for a large share of Apple's stock.
The Lisa was a big computer for businesses but the price tag was $10,000 and too high for even a lot of businesses to afford.
The Macintosh had began development in 1979 and Steve Jobs joined the team before the Lisa was released in 1983. Though the Lisa had a high price tag, it was the first commercial computer to use a GUI instead of a command line interface.
Command line interface above.
Lisa OS above.
The goal of the Macintosh was to create a cheaper, faster Lisa. The Macintosh was released in January 24th 1984 at the price of $2,500. It was the first commercially successful computer to use the GUI and was the stepping stone on which other Operating Systems followed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0FtgZNOD44
A video of the introduction of the Macintosh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
"1984" commercial for Macintosh.
Enjoy my fellow technology geeks! Love Apple or hate em'. The Macintosh did indeed change the world of computing!