1984

Macintosh

Apple presents the Macintosh with a TV commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl. The announcement showed the destruction of "Big Brother" - a veiled reference to IBM - through the power of a Macintosh's personal computing. The Macintosh was the first computer based on a graphical user interface, which allowed the use of the mouse, and on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. Its price was $ 2500. The software package included MacPaint and MacWrite which showed the processing of the WYSIWYG lyrics (What You See Is What You Get).