Apple introduced the Macintosh computer in 1984. The original Macintosh, later identified as the Macintosh 128K, debuted on January 24, 1984, at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California. Its compact all-in-one design combined a 9-inch black-and-white display, keyboard, mouse, and 3.5-inch floppy drive.
The Macintosh stood out for making a graphical user interface central to a mass-market computer. Users could work with windows, icons, menus, and a mouse instead of relying mainly on typed commands. Its Motorola 68000 processor ran at 8 MHz, while the machine included 128 KB of RAM and 64 KB of ROM.
A famous Super Bowl commercial directed by Ridley Scott helped create enormous attention, although the advertisement aired two days before the product reached the market. A common mix-up is crediting Xerox PARC: Apple drew important inspiration from PARC research, but Apple designed, packaged, marketed, and introduced the Macintosh.