Apple three decades ago revolutionized the computer world by launching the Macintosh computer.
Eleconomista.com.mx.
Thirty years ago, long before the invention of the iPhone and the iPad, Apple American Group revolutionized the computer world by launching the Macintosh computer, which remained the symbol of a legendary rivalry with Microsoft.
“The Mac was a quantum leap forward,” says AFP Randy Wigginton, one of the first employees of Apple. “We have not invented everything, but we did everything went accessible and easy.”
Before presenting the Mac on January 24, 1984, computers were expensive machines for the working world, commanded by text written in an almost incomprehensible language programmer who is not.
new device Apple changed that and opened the way for a computer use by the general public, thanks to a graphical interface which proposed making icons by simply clicking a mouse, invented in the 1960s by one unit engineer at Stanford Research Institute who died last year, Doug Engelbart, and Mac became popular.
These seemingly simple maneuvers, required capacity in terms of memory and huge for computers of the time processors, but Apple managed yet maintain affordable for buyers.
gray box
Back then it was not uncommon to have to pay $ 10,000 or more for a computer, but the first Mac was sold for $ 2,500 and had 128 kilobytes of RAM.
Over the years, the original Mac that looked like a big gray box with a floppy reader evolved into a line of computers that meet cellular fine and powerful desktop or cylindrical models.
Some 16.5 million copies were sold during the year ended in late September, but since the late 2000s, Mac gave his stellar role in the universe other Apple devices like the iPhone or iPad .
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