Question

Create a timeline outlining the discovery (or invention) of The Apple Macintosh invented (1984)

Directions:

What is the Invention or Discovery about?

What category does the Invention fall into? (Entertainment, Computers, Household, Transportation, Energy, Other)

When was it invented?

Who Invented It?

What does it do?

What was the purpose for the research that led to the invention or discovery? Why do it?

How did the invention either make life easier or affect the world in a positive or negative way?

Answer 1

The Macintosh (mainly Mac since 1998) is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc. since January 1984.

The family started with the invention of Lisa which is a desktop computer developed by Apple, released on January 19, 1983. It is one of the first personal computers to present a graphical user interface (GUI) in a machine aimed at individual business users. The later on models were the successors of Lisa.

The original Macintosh is the first successful mass-market personal computer to have featured a graphical user interface, built-in screen, and mouse. Apple sold the Macintosh alongside its popular Apple II family of computers for almost ten years until the latter was discontinued in 1993.

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1984	January 1	Lisa 2*	Compact	January 1, 1985
January 24	Macintosh 128K	Compact	September 10, 1984
September 10	Macintosh 512K	Compact	April 14, 1986
Macintosh 128K (revised)	Compact	October 1, 1985

The invention falls into the category of computers when it was first introduced. Now-a-days computers are used in wide number of uses from educational to entertainment purposes.

The Macintosh 128K, originally released as the Apple Macintosh, is the original Apple Macintosh personal computer. Its beige case consisted of a 9 in (23 cm) CRT monitor and came with a keyboard and mouse.It was released/invented on 24th January 1984 and was later discontinued in September 1984 when the company sought to bring upgradations to the model and presented modified models to the people.

Some of the models of the Macintosh that ruled the market for years

January 24	Macintosh 128K	Compact	September 10, 1984
September 10	Macintosh 512K	Compact	April 14, 1986
Macintosh 128K (revised)	Compact	October 1, 1985

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1985	January 1	Macintosh XL	Compact	April 29, 1985

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1986	January 16	Macintosh Plus	Compact	January 1, 1987
April 14	Macintosh 512Ke	Compact	October 1, 1987

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1987	January 1	Macintosh Plus (Platinum)	Compact	October 15, 1990
February 3	Macintosh SE	Compact	August 1, 1989
March 2	Macintosh II	Mac II	January 15, 1990

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1988	September 19	Macintosh IIx	Mac II	October 15, 1990

Year	Launched	Model	Family	Discontinued
1989	January 19	Macintosh SE/30	Compact	October 21, 1991
March 7	Macintosh IIcx	Mac II	March 11, 1991
August 1	Macintosh SE FDHD	Compact	October 15, 1990
September 20	Macintosh IIci	Mac II	February 20, 1993
Macintosh Portable	Portable	February 11, 1991

There are not one or two people who brought the revolution in the field of computers by inventing such a capable machine but a team of experts who worked really hard to present us something like this. Though the Key designers of this project are Jef Raskin, Smith, Bud Tribble, Steve Jobs,Burrle Smith

The Macintosh changed everything. It was a computer with a price tag that was within reach for many and, more important, that almost anyone could operate without going to school to become an expert. It was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two old known then, but still unpopular features—the mouse and the graphical user interface, rather than the command-line interface of its predecessors.The original Macintosh featured a radically new graphical user interface. Users interacted with the computer using a metaphorical desktop that included icons of real life items, instead of abstract textual commands.

The basic purpose of this discovery was to lower the production cost of these types of machines with having additional and prominent feature of graphical user interface comprising of icons,images rather the the old convention of command line interface of interaction between the user and the system.

The work of the techies and experts in the Apple Inc. ended up revolutionizing the computer industry and changing the face of consumer technology. Along with tech giants like Microsoft and IBM, Apple helped make computers part of everyday life, ushering in the Digital Revolution and the Information Age.