What year was the original Macintosh introduced?

The original Macintosh was introduced in 1984.

Apple formally introduced the Macintosh on January 24, 1984, when the Macintosh 128K went on sale. Two days earlier, the famous “1984” television commercial aired during Super Bowl XVIII, creating enormous anticipation for the new computer.

The Macintosh placed a 9-inch monochrome display, a floppy-disk drive, and a graphical user interface in a compact all-in-one case. A mouse and software such as MacWrite and MacPaint helped demonstrate a more approachable alternative to command-line computing.

The computer had 128 KB of RAM and used a Motorola 68000 processor. It was initially marketed simply as the Macintosh; after Apple introduced the Macintosh 512K, the first model became known as the Macintosh 128K. The Lisa had preceded it, so the Macintosh was not Apple’s first graphical-interface computer, but it became the company’s landmark mass-market success.