The Macintosh, introduced by Apple 41 years ago, revolutionized personal computing by making graphical user interfaces and point-and-click ...

It was 41 years ago today when Apple announced the original Macintosh, one of the first successful personal computers to sport a graphical user interface.

The first Macintosh board, designed by Burrell Smith, had 64 kilobytes (KB) of RAM, used the Motorola 6809E microprocessor, and could support a 256×256 pixel black-and-white bitmap display.