On January 24, 1984, the first "Mac" was released. It is considered the first commercially successful personal computer to use a mouse and a graphical user interface, which was modeled after a desktop.
The 30th Anniversary Of The Apple Macintosh
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Curator Adam Rosen writes "Happy 30th Birthday" using version 1 of MacPaint on an original 128K Macintosh computer at the Vintage Mac Museum in Malden, Massachusetts on January 18, 2014.
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Steve Jobs, chairman of the board of Apple Computer, leaning on a new Macintosh personal computer following a shareholder's meeting January 24, 1984 in Cupertino, California. The Macintosh was initially priced at $2,495.
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The motherboard of an Apple Macintosh Classic computer.
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Accessories for an original 128K Macintosh, including an operating system disk and a guided tour on a cassette tape.
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The first 128K Macintosh sits alongside some of its successors.
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A Mac Classic sits next to the later and more colorful iMac and iBook.
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Apple computer keyboards from 1984 and 2007.
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Macintosh motherboards and computers together on display at the "History of Computers" exhibition in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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A man shows off his Apple Macintosh Classic computer from 1990 along with his newly purchased Apple iPad at an Apple store in Hamburg, Germany in 2010.
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Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs stands beneath a photograph of himself and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak from the early days of Apple during the launch of Apple's new iPad tablet computer in San Francisco, California on January 27, 2010.
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A MacBook Pro laptop computer at an Apple store in California displaying the death announcement for former Apple CEO Steve Jobs on October 5, 2011.