The Macintosh shipped with only 128K of memory, compared with the 1,000K RAM in the Lisa. It also lacked an internal hard drive, at Jobs’ insistence.

The first Macintosh with a colour screen, the Macintosh II, only arrived in 1987. The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, England, is one of many collections that feature a functioning 128K.

From just 128KB of memory in the first Mac (to as much as 16GB in the 2021 iMac 24), Apple has continually redefined its products from design and aesthetics to functionality and productivity.

The first Mac had a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive at a time when a 5.25 inch was the standard. The Mac used the smaller drive for practical reasons; the larger floppies weren't reliable.

The story, as the public understands it, is that Steve Jobs Steve Jobs made the Macintosh. That is the truth, in the general sense. Only Jobs, who has a talent in inspiring (and humiliating ...

My first Mac was also my first computer: my mother’s Mac SE, which I began using in the late 1980s and was eventually gifted to me a few years later when she upgraded to a newer, fancier Mac.

So just what did some of the first Macintosh ads look like? ... Below are four pages of original Mac advertising that appeared as part of the aforementioned 18-page spread in December, 1983.