Evolution and Impact of the Macintosh Computer

The Macintosh abbreviated as Mac, is the line of personal computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. In the beginning was an economic and domestic alternative to Lisa, an advanced business microcomputer, whose line of development was absorbed by the Macintosh line. The Mac ended up becoming the standard line of development of Apple computers, with the disappearance of the evolutionary line of the Apple II. The Macintosh 128K, named for its 128 KiB of RAM, was launched on January 24, 1984. It was the first personal computer to be marketed successfully that used a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse instead of the command line. Its technical characteristics revolutionized the computer industry in the mid-1980s, maintaining its evolutionary line of development to this day. The range of Mac products currently varies from

Raskin wanted the team name to be that of his favorite apple guy, the McIntosh, 2 but he could not for legal reasons, since he was too close, phonetically, to the audio equipment manufacturer McIntosh. Steve Jobs asked for the release of the name so that Apple could use it, but he was denied, forcing Apple to finally buy the rights to use the name.3 Raskin was authorized to start the project in September 1979,4 and began to find an engineer who could build a prototype. Bill Atkinson, a member of the Apple Lisa team (a similar, but higher-end machine), introduced him to Burrell Smith, a self-taught service technician who had been hired earlier that year. Over the years, Raskin was assembling a great development team that designed and built the original Macintosh hardware and software. In addition to Raskin, Atkinson and Smith, the team included George Crow, 5 Chris Espinosa, Joanna Hoffman, Bruce Horn, Susan Kare, Andy Hertzfeld, Guy Kawasaki, Daniel Kottke, 6 and Jerry