The Macintosh, later rebranded as the Macintosh 128K, is the original Macintosh personal computer from Apple. It is the first successful mass-market all-in-one desktop personal computer with a graphical user interface, built-in screen and mouse. It was pivotal in establishing desktop publishing as a general office function.

The history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements, built on some constant core principles.

Jan 21, 2001 · Graphical User Interface (GUI) The GUI had its roots in the 1950s but was not developed until the 1970s when a group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) developed the Alto, a GUI-based computer. The Alto was the size of a large desk, and Xerox believed it unmarketable.

Lisa is a desktop computer developed by Apple, produced from January 19, 1983, to August 1, 1986, and succeeded by Macintosh. It is generally considered the first mass-market personal computer operable through a graphical user interface (GUI).

Jan 19, 2010 · Apple revolutionized computing with the Macintosh of "1984" TV-ad fame — the world's first affordable GUI computer. But a year earlier Lisa set the stage. It was one of the company's most...

The Apple Macintosh microcomputer introduced a graphic user interface (GUI) to the Apple line of computers. The idea had originated at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, but Xerox was slow to commercialize it.

Mar 11, 2009 · System 1.0 was the first operating system GUI developed for the Macintosh. It had several features of a modern operating system, being windows based with icons. The windows could be moved around with the mouse and files and folders could be copied by dragging and dropping onto the target location. When first released, Amiga was ahead of its time.

Mar 17, 2025 · The Lisa and the Macintosh: Graphical Interfaces Change Everything In 1983, Apple released the Lisa, one of the first personal computers with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a mouse. While technologically advanced, the …

On January 22, 1984, Apple introduced the first commercial computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface (GUI) eleven years after Xerox Alto announced its first personal computer.

Thus, the really pivotal 1984 event in the history of the GUI was when Apple released the Macintosh and brought the Alto-style graphical user interface to the masses. Perhaps it should have been the Amiga, designed in 1983 but released only after the Mac in 1985. The Amiga followed the PARC GUI model, if perhaps less inventively than the Macintosh.