Apple Mac turns 35 and Tim Cook pays tribute on Twitter

The first Mac ( Macintosh, as it was known at the time) was presented by Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984 , and today completes 35 years of existence. To commemorate this date, Tim Cook posted on his Twitter a photo of the first device and a message celebrating the event.

“35 years ago, Macintosh said hello. He changed the way we look at computers and arrived to change the world. We love the Mac, and today we're proud that more and more people are using it to pursue their passions and create the future.

The arrival of the Mac

The first time the world got to know the Macintosh was in a commercial during the Super Bowl in 1984, two days before it was unveiled and presented by Steve Jobs. The commercial was directed by Ridley Scott and it aired on the national network, which was enough for it to have the success it had. It was so loud that news channels on TV aired the commercial as well, thus giving the Macintosh free advertising.

Finally, on January 24 of that year, Steve Jobs officially revealed the machine, using a very rustic application, but very surprising for the time, capable of transforming text into voice. The Macintosh voice, as we can see in the video below.

The price of evolution

It was released a year after LISA as a more affordable way to make the mouse-powered machine something really big, as the former sold at a price of $9.995. Still, he wasn't cheap. At the time, to get their hands on a Macintosh, users needed not only to buy the device, which cost US$2.495, but also to have the extra floppy disk drive that was essential for use and was sold separately.

It arrived with just 128K of memory, running the System 1 operating system (later renamed Mac OS) and a Motorola 68000 processor running at 8HMz. The screen was 9 inches, black and white and with a resolution of 512 x 342, which at the time was considered a high resolution. She already came with MacWrite, the writing program and macpaint, the drawing.

the first iMac

Remembering that until the launch of the iMac in 1985, the machine was still known only as the Macintosh. This year Steve Jobs presented the first iMac, with a more sophisticated design and totally different from what had been presented until then. It became known as the iMac G3 when the iMac G4 was released in 2002 and the revolutionary transparent look, plus the USB connection and the switch from floppy drive to CD drive was a big step towards becoming the success it is today.