It didn’t have the elements of a full computer.
Steve Wozniak: The Macintosh wasn’t a computer-it was a program to make things move in front of Steve’s eyes, the way a real computer would move them, but it didn’t have the underpinnings of a general operating system that allocates resources and keeps track of them and things like that.
But then starting in the fall, sales started dropping off. Steve laid down a challenge at the introduction, which was to sell first thousand machines in the first hundred days, and it exceeded that. Fun fact, courtesy of PED quoting Alan Fisher's Valley of Genius:Īndy Hertzfeld: The Macintosh had a great launch it was really successful at first.
