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CPU Configuration: 68000 8 MHz The 128K introduced the world to the Macintosh GUI (graphical user interface). Although underpowered, the 128K's remarkable GUI was the first offered on the home market at a price many could afford. On Sunday afternoon in the winter of 1984, 43 million Americans saw Apple's "1984" commercial during the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl. In ten million households from coast to coast there was a collective gasp, then, echoing the on-air words of one of the sports announcers, "Wow, what was that?" The Macintosh hit the market with the force of a ten-kiloton nuclear bomb and the computer industry changed forever. The original script for "1984":
"My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the State. And today, that great body has purged itself of parasites. We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of fact. The thugs and wreckers have been cast out. And the poisonous weeds of disinformation have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Let each and every cell rejoice! For today we celebrate the first, glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is a more powerful weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail! Excerpts from Infinite Loop, Malone, page 275.
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