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
![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.](https://gdb.rferl.org/b5a747fd-b0d2-484b-840d-385a2e430feb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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.](https://gdb.rferl.org/9d3c290d-b696-428b-b592-fcd23c2a78e5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![The motherboard of an Apple Macintosh Classic computer.](https://gdb.rferl.org/bc09898b-3696-4665-9400-b7ab2e3bbdd2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The motherboard of an Apple Macintosh Classic computer.
![Accessories for an original 128K Macintosh, including an operating system disk and a guided tour on a cassette tape.](https://gdb.rferl.org/ca29e3d8-273a-46a0-930d-5cc994f34582_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Accessories for an original 128K Macintosh, including an operating system disk and a guided tour on a cassette tape.
![The first 128K Macintosh sits alongside some of its successors.](https://gdb.rferl.org/c4f8715c-a059-4fc1-8861-007942db8815_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The first 128K Macintosh sits alongside some of its successors.
![A Mac Classic sits next to the later and more colorful iMac and iBook.](https://gdb.rferl.org/c814073c-3a5a-4fc5-9309-fa054f8fca64_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Mac Classic sits next to the later and more colorful iMac and iBook.
![Apple computer keyboards from 1984 and 2007.](https://gdb.rferl.org/96b48a61-bb72-4149-bf76-f5f65a001a9c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Apple computer keyboards from 1984 and 2007.
![Macintosh motherboards and computers together on display at the "History of Computers" exhibition in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.](https://gdb.rferl.org/d70c1eba-a1c1-40f7-89a7-95e31fd12080_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Macintosh motherboards and computers together on display at the "History of Computers" exhibition in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
![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.](https://gdb.rferl.org/b741b6b8-8e4c-47c5-9c21-489c905d4983_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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.](https://gdb.rferl.org/7550f139-c188-491f-bc1c-5abbaa5102d7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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.](https://gdb.rferl.org/a563fc59-2ce3-4cab-b007-e977067dd2ee_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.