Macintosh 128k
The Macintosh 128k (or even Macintosh in 1984, when he came onto the market in 1984 ) was an early PC, which was introduced on January 24, 1984, was until October 1985 in the program. The sale price was 2,495 U.S. dollars ( according to current purchasing power about 3,640 euros ). He had 128 KB of main memory ( RAM ) and 64 KB read-only memory (ROM ) the drive took 400 KB. Since upgrading the RAM on slots was not provided, the extension only to competent persons by soldering of additional RAM chips was possible. The especially given the elaborate graphical user interface ( GUI), even for that time extremely short memory is generally seen as the greatest "Achilles heel" of the Mac 128k. The beige case was the forerunner for the case design of the Macintosh Plus, Classic and Classic II series, and was designed by Jerry Manock, an internal Apple designer. The Macintosh 128k was after the Apple Lisa, the second Apple computer with a graphical user interface. Until May 3, 70,000 units were sold, after stagnating sales.
The computer was made famous especially for the $ 900,000 expensive commercial by Ridley Scott, "1984", which was shown particularly prominent on the U.S. CBS television during Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984.
Developer
In the inside of the device housing the signatures of the developers of the Macintosh 128k were engraved. The names were Peggy Aleixo, Colette Askeland, Bill Atkinson, Steve Balog, Bob Belleville, Mike Boich, Bill Bull, Matt Carter, Berry Cash, Debbie Coleman, George Crow, Donn Denman, Christopher Espinosa, Bill Fernandez, Martin Haeberli, Andy Hertzfeld, Joanna Hoffman, Rod Holt, Bruce Horn, Hap Horn, Brian Howard, Steve Jobs, Larry Kenyon, Patti King, Daniel Kottke, Angeline Lo, Ivan Mach, Gerald Manock, Mary Ellen McCammon, Vicki Milledge, Mike Murray, Ron Nicholson Jr Terry Oyama, Benjamin Pang, Jef Raskin, Brian Robertson, Dave Roots, Patricia Sharp, Burrell Smith, Bryan Stearns, Lynn Takahashi, Randy Wigginton, Linda Wilkin, Steve Wozniak, Pamela Wyman, Laszlo Zidek and two more.