Happy Birthday

On January 24 1984 the first Apple Macintosh went on sale!

Comprising of a crisp one-bit monochrome, 9" display with a resolution of 512 by 342 pixels, establishing the desktop publishing standard of 72 PPI, a 'massive' 128k of RAM and a 400k Floppy drive.

The brochure can be viewed here.

Apple promoted the launch of the Mac with this TV ad themed around George Orwell's 1984 which aired during the half time break of the Super Bowl.
The Macitosh was the first commercially successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface (GUI) and mouse instead of the then-standard command line interface.

Needless to say, its sucess revolutionised the design industry.