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Steve Jobs, 16, meets Steve Wozniak through a friend.
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Jobs works as a video game manufacturer Atari and Wozniak becomes an engineering assistant at Hewlett-Packard.
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Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Rollan Wayne found Apple Computer, Inc. -
The company launches the Apple II, the first mass-marketed personal computer and one of the first to generate color graphics. -
Mike Markkula becomes president of Apple and Jobs the Chairman. At the end of the year, the company goes public, with an opening stock price of $22 per share. -
Lisa, pioneer in the use of a mouse to control a computer, debuts in the search to be a laptop that is easier to use. -
Apple launched the Macintosh in 1984, it is the portable computer designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. -
Jobs is fired from Apple after a fight with Mr. Sculley.
At the end of the year, Jobs forms Next Inc, a manufacturer of high-end computers for universities. -
Jobs buys "The Graphics Group" (which becomes Pixar Animation Studios) from George Lucas for $10 million. -
Apple buys NeXT for $430 million. Jobs returns as interim CEO and president of Apple.Apple buys NeXT for $430 million. Jobs returns as interim CEO and president of Apple. -
Apple launches the iMac, which puts the monitor and processor in a single unit. Apple returns to profitability. -
Apple launches the iPod a portable MP3 player that revolutionizes the way we listen to music, for this reason Apple also launches the iTunes Store, giving people an easy way to buy music online. -
Apple introduces the iPhone, one of the first smartphones and for the first time without a keyboard. Crowds line up at stores to buy. -
Apple launches the iPad, a touch-screen tablet PC that ushers in a new genre of mobile computing. It is an instant phenomenon. -
Steve Jobs died at his home in California around 3 pm on October 5, 2011, at the age of 56.