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.

The 40-year-old original Apple Macintosh is a museum piece but a few enthusiastic fans still own and use the devices (Credit: Alamy) On 24 January 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K personal computer ...

But if all the first Mac inspires is nostalgia, we’ve lost sight of how daring it was. Unlike Apple’s first blockbuster PC, the Apple II, it had a built-in display but no integrated keyboard ...

Commodore ceased Amiga production in 1992 - a full eight years after the first Mac was released in Jan. 1984. Before the Mac, Apple released the Apple III, which was considered a commercial failure: ...

The Macintosh 128K, released by Apple in 1984, was a low-priced computer priced at $2,495 (approximately 390,000 yen) at the time, but its versatility made it a popular choice among multiple users ...

Many artists love to design alternate versions of original Apple products, including the first Macintosh computer. Most recently, app developer Steve Troughton-Smith made his own renditions of the ...

Jobs didn’t want the first Mac to have an owner’s manual because he thought it was ready to use out of the box. Jobs’s team talked him out of it, so he gave Jay Elliott, a former IBM ...