10 Facts About Macintosh

1. Original Macintosh was the first successful mass-market all-in-one desktop personal computer with a graphical user interface, built-in screen, and mouse.

2. Macintosh wanted to name the computer after his favorite type of apple, the McIntosh, but the spelling was changed to "Macintosh" for legal reasons as the original was the same spelling as that used by McIntosh Laboratory, Inc.

3. Macintosh arranged for Apple engineers to be allowed to visit PARC to see the systems in action.

4. Realizing that the Macintosh was more marketable than the Lisa, Jobs began to focus his attention on the project.

5. The launch of the Macintosh pioneered many different tactics that are used today in launching technology products, including the "multiple exclusive," event marketing, creating a mystique about a product and giving an inside look into a product's creation.

6. Two days after "1984" aired, the Macintosh went on sale, and came bundled with two applications designed to show off its interface: MacWrite and MacPaint.

7. MacWrite's inclusion with the Macintosh discouraged developers from creating other word processing software.

8. System 7 was the first Macintosh operating system to support 32-bit addressing.

9. Macintosh is the only mainstream computer platform to have successfully transitioned to a new CPU architecture, and has done so twice.

10. Now known as the classic Mac OS, the System software was introduced in 1984 with the first Macintosh, renamed Mac OS in 1997, and continued to evolve until version 9.2.2.