Apple Macintosh '128k' microcomputer

UvA Computer Museum catalogue nr 96.55

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This is the first Macintosh model, introduced by Apple in January 1984. Some features of the Macintosh are:

• Motorola 68000 processor, 7.8336 MHz clock
• standard 128 kB RAM and 64 kB ROM (an additional 384 kB RAM could be soldered in)
• up to 80 Mbyte hard disk (SCSI interface)
• built-in 512*342 pixel black-and-white (bit-mapped) display
• built-in single-sided 3.5", 400kB floppy drive, optional external drive
• built-in four-voice mono sound synthesis hardware.

With the Macintosh the mouse-driven graphical user interface became popular, or at least well-known, since the Macintosh was not a particularly cheap machine ($ 2495).
Many Macs were purchased by this University's Computer Science department, mainly to be used for teaching Pascal.