This weekend, some of Apple’s fans and employees took a moment to look back and celebrate 25 years since the release of the first Macintosh. The machine was first introduced on January 24, 1984.

The original Mac featured a nine-inch screen, 128 k of RAM, an internal floppy drive, an 8 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor, a keyboard and a single-button mouse, and was available for the price of $2,495. It weighed about 22 pounds and measured almost 14 inches in height. The idea was to provide people with an accessible computer that offered an alternative to the machines available at the time, that required many text commands.

The advert, presented for the first time at the US Superbowl on January 22, 1984, was directed by film director Ridley Scott and considered by many truly groundbreaking.

It introduced to the world color displays hard drives, expandability and later on, in 1989, the first notebook called the Macintosh Portable, which weighed 16 pounds and was available for $6,500.

The Macintosh name was given by computer maker Jef Raskin, but the original spelling, McIntosh, had to be changed finding out that it was already used by another company.

Over the years, the Mac began attracting more and more people, turning the device into one of the company’s biggest successes.

Looking back at the system and design features, one can only conclude that the improvements are immense, taking the device to new levels in terms of productivity and construction. Who knows what the company’s 50 year anniversary will bring...