Happy Birthday, Mac… Demo

Twenty five years ago today, on January 24, 1984, some guy named Steve Jobs demonstrated a computer that would change the face of the computer world—by giving Microsoft the ideas it would use to take over 90% of the desktop OS market.  Video follows:

Listen to the reaction of the crowd at seeing that first round of Mac apps.  It’s easy today to forget how big a deal a graphical OS was back then.  The state of the art in PC computing at the time was PC DOS 2.1; the release of Windows 1.0 was still 22 months in the future, and Windows 3.0 (the first version of Windows I personally found to be more than a novelty) wouldn’t ship for another six years.