Yes, it was 40 years ago today… that the Apple Macintosh was introduced, although by today’s standards, it looks quite modest: It was a beige, rather boxy-looking device that also came with a keyboard and single-button mouse. On the inside, it included an 8 MHz processor and 128 KB of RAM. There was also a single 400 KB floppy drive for storage and a 512-x-342 pixel black-and-white display.
However, although its physical design might not have been groundbreaking, another aspect of the computer was: It came with a graphical interface, which meant you could interact by using the mouse to click on icons, buttons, and menus. And that was new! Still, by today’s standards, the tech specs for the Macintosh 128K, which can be found on Apple’s website, seem extraordinarily meager.
