The Macintosh 128k

"And you'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984”

The Macintosh. The beginning of an era for Apple. Its project isn't born yet that Steve Jobs and the manager of the project Jef Raskin are arguing if the Macintosh should be cheap or a high-quality Personal Computer.
Michael Scott, Apple CEO, brings in Jobs' hands the whole project: from this time, the Macintosh starts changing.
In Steve's point of view, everything should have been nice to see and simple: From the software to the hardware, even internal components.
In the 1983, Steve Jobs started to think which could be the perfect advertisement for the product that would have brung Apple to the success: here above you can see the choose commercial: it will be considered as the best advertisement ever.



The girl represents the arrive of the Macintosh on the market that should free all the computer users from conformism.
The Macintosh had a 8MHz Processor (Here you can see a comparation graph with some similiar Personal Computers), 128 kB RAM (when the standard was only 64 kB), a 9 " monochromatic display with a quality of the image of 72 PPI.
A 400 kB floppy was considered as ample and many users preferred to lock the write on the floppy which contained the Operating System (the Mac OS) and using a second floppy for personal data.
It was without fans in its inside: Steve Jobs couldn't stand noisy fans and was a supporter of silent computers.
in the rear of its beige case, we could find connectors for the keyboard (without arrows keys or numeric tab to force the user to use the mouse), the mouse, the printer, the modem, an external floppy disk and a monophonic speaker.
Apple wanted since this time to use specific connectors to avoid people to use the Macintosh with a non-Apple monitor: This strategy is still used nowadays with the most of ports or cables used by Apple products.

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