Macintosh is a family of PCs originally created by Apple in 1984 with the brand name still in use today under the shortened name “Mac.” The main selling point of the original Macintosh was its graphical interface as up until that point all computers (with the exception of the commercially unsuccessful Sinclair QL which was released one month prior to the original Macintosh) had a text-based interface. The Macintosh was commercially popular but due to its high price-tag found most of its success in the desktop publishing and educational markets, instead losing the household and corporate market to the cheaper Commodore 64 and the IBM “Personal Computers.”
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