Sure, it looks charmingly retro today. But the little Macintosh computer introduced in 1984 was a daring machine in its time—and its influence on everything Apple does has been profound. As I probably ...

When a 28-year-old brash, bow-tie-wearing Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh PC on Jan. 24, 1984, few people knew how much one consumer tech product would change our lives. It delivered a bunch of ...

As I sat third row center at the Flint Center in Cupertino on January 24, 1984, I had no idea that I was witnessing history. The original unveiling of the Mac took place at Apple’s annual shareholder ...

January 22, 1984: Apple’s stunning “1984” commercial for the Macintosh 128K airs on CBS during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. Its dystopian theme and epic visuals pitch the Mac as a ...

Happy birthday, Apple Mac. Whether you can remember the hullabaloo of the very first Mac being announced on January 24, 1984, or your first Mac is the latest iMac, you’ll know that there’s something ...

The year is 1984. It’s Super Bowl Sunday and you turn on the TV to see a procession of stern men marching through a tunnel. No, it’s not the Los Angeles Raiders. It’s the most important Super Bowl ...

A glimpse at how the proposed Jonathan Computer looked. Photo: Dan Lieberman, released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Courtesy Blake Patterson of The Byte Cellar. Apple is ...

The Pico-mac-nano stands 2.4 inches tall and features a 2-inch, 480x640-pixel LCD screen. The original 1984 Apple Macintosh — which stood more than 13 inches high and weighed 16.5 pounds — was ...