September 10, 1984: Apple ships the Macintosh 512K, the first upgrade to the first-gen Macintosh 128K. Coming less than eight months after the original Macintosh, the 512K Mac makes no sweeping ...

The simple Settings or Control Panel of the Mac has been lovingly documented in a superbly detailed and visual guide to design — and through it, also the history of Apple itself. This is what the web ...

February 13, 1984: The first Mac’s launch generates enormous excitement from the tech press, as epitomized by an InfoWorld cover story about the Macintosh 128K. The wave of coverage comes a few weeks ...

The Macintosh was developed as a relatively low-cost alternative to Apple's high-end Lisa desktop system. Inspired heavily by graphical user interface work undertaken in the late 1970s at Xerox's Palo ...