The Macintosh computer, released by Apple on January 24, 1984, was one of the first computers to combine most of the elements of a modern day computer - a display, a keyboard, and a mouse.

Overview

The Macintosh is a later development of Apple's, which was created after an earlier computer called "Lisa". The Macintosh was similar to Lisa in a number of ways, but there were important differences between the two as well.

Both Lisa and the Macintosh shared the use of a mouse. Interestingly enough, Apple wanted consumers to use the mouse so much that they didn't include arrow keys on the keyboards of their earliest Macintoshes.

In a combination of both similarities and differences, upon start-up, the Macintosh displayed a graphic user interface, something that Lisa also had. The difference is that the Macintosh used square pixels, which made mapping graphics a lot easier. Also, the Macintosh not only took the same microprocessor from Lisa, but it also increased the speed of it