Steve Jobs, Jeff Raskin, and some other Apple bigwigs gained entry into the super - secret Xerox PARC facility. Upon seeing their early work with the GUI (Graphical User Interface - using a mouse to point to things on the screen, thereby controlling the computer graphically rather than via typed commands), the Apple guys realized this was the future of personal computing.
As detailed in iCon, which is a fun book about Steve Jobs, the Xerox people were the nerds who created the technology, but didn't have the creative minds to see the next step - how the technology they created would revolutionize the personal computer, and thereby the world.
The Macintosh came out in 2010
The current Macintosh OS is OSX 10.8.# OSX 10.9 should come out in 2013.
The Macintosh personal computer was created by a team of engineers and designers working at Apple. The original ideas came from Jef Raskin but he eventually left the Macintosh team after disagreements with Steve Jobs.
Math ideas come from mathematicians.
A Macintosh apple.
There is no macintosh orchid.
Steve Jobs was a late comer to the Macintosh project which was started in the late 1970s by Apple engineer Jef Raskin who was joined by a team of Apple employees. Jobs was working on the Lisa computer at the time. As the Macintosh idea grew Jobs took over the project and Raskin eventually left after conflicts with Jobs. The Macintosh adopted many ideas that Jobs brought from the Lisa and it eventually more resembled Jobs' ideas than Raskin's. The Lisa was too expensive for a mass market product so Jobs wanted to push the Macintosh design as an affordable computer using the then innovative mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface.
The correct spelling is Macintosh.
Alex MacIntosh's birth name is Alexander P. Macintosh.
Katie MacIntosh's birth name is Katherine Elise MacIntosh.
Laird Macintosh's birth name is Laird Macintosh Rattray.
Stewart Macintosh's birth name is Stewart David Macintosh.