Macintosh History

            On January 24, 1984, *Apple* announced the Macintosh to it's Board of Directors and to the world. And the computer world has never been the same. A year earlier, Apple had unveiled the $10,000 Lisa, the first business computer with a  graphical user interface and a mouse. The Lisa never caught on, but Apple was enamoured of the concept. It was an era of conformity. Although you could still buy an Apple II, TRS-80, Commodore, or CP/M computer, MS-DOS watch the de facto standard.  Apple made a bold move, thinking different long before it became an ad slogan. And the rest, as they say, is history, a history Low End Mac examines in a series of articles, each covering 1 year in the life of the Macintosh. In January 1985, Apple announced Macintosh XL, which was the new name for the wildly unsuccessful Lisa 2. In April, Apple discontinued the model. Sun remarketing purchased about 5000 in 1987, which day upgraded and bundled with Mac works, a...