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The Mac turns 40: How Apple's rebel PC almost failed again and again
In 1984, a $2.5k computer - with a 9-inch black-and-white display, 128KB RAM, 400 KB floppy drive, and built-in networking - changed everything. Until it didn't. Then these two things saved the Mac.
Photo by SSPL/Getty ImagesIn 1984, we were listening to Prince's Purple Rain on FM radio; we were watching Ghostbusters at the drive-in movie theater; and, oh yes, we were falling in love with Apple's radical new computer, the Macintosh. I wasn't at its introduction at De Anza College in Cupertino, California, but several of my tech journalist friends were, and they told me that besides Jobs, other technology leaders, such as Bill Gates and Lotus founder Mitch Kapor were there and promised to make software for this new machine. When the Macintosh II arrived in 1987 with a hard drive and a color display, DTP ensured that this new, more powerful Mac would find not just Apple fans, but a business audience waiting for it.
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