I’ve never really thought about the history of the Macintosh computer. When we
discussed the impact the Mac computer had on the designing world I thought it would be interesting to find out more abouthow this successful computer company came to be.
On April 1, 1976 the Apple computer was created. Steven Wozniak, a high school drop-out designed the Apple I. The Apple I only consisted of the circuit board, and held a maximum of 32
kB of RAM. The cost was $666.66. His friend Steven Jobs, also a high school drop-out, created Apple II a year later. It was based on Wozniak’s design, but had many additions. It had a plastic case and displayed color graphics. It weighed 11.5 lbs. I think it's crazy that two high school drop-outs are responsible for developing the first two Apple computers!
By 1980, Apple III was released. It was the first Apple with a built in disk drive. It sold very poorly because it had many problems. It was sold for between $4,340 and $7,800 depending on what was included. It weighed 25 lbs.
The Lisa was created in 1983, and was named after one of its designer’s daughters. I think it would be cool to have a computer named after me. It weighed a heavy 48 lbs and contained 1 MB of RAM.
If we skip ahead a few years to the 1991 Macintosh Classic II, it contained 40-80 MB on its hard drive. It cost $1,900 and weighed 16 lbs. In 1991, Apple released its first truly portable computer called the PowerBook 100. It weighed 5.1 lbs and contained 20-40 MB of storage on the hard drive.In 1998 the colorful iMac was introduced. It was a computer designed for the new millennium.
In 1998 the PowerBook G3 Series came out with a whole new look for their laptop.
The 1999 iBook was probably the most anxiously awaited Apple computer ever.
The rest is history. It would take a long time to get through the entire list of computers Apple has developed over the decades. Here are a couple images of the Mac desktop and laptop of today. The MacBook Pro (2009) has a hard drive storage of 500 MB and weighs 6.6 lbs. The
Mac Pro (2009) has a hard drive storage of 640 MB and weighs 40 lbs. I appreciate Mac computers even more now that I know how much they have evolved.
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