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Apple I
Jef Raskin writes Ph.D on the GUI, he used the Quick Draw term. -
Meeting
Bill Fernandez introduced Steve Jobs to Steve Wozniak -
Xerox
Xerox opened PARC and employs their greatest employees minds to research more about it -
Atari
Jobs was one of the first employees to create Alto, he cheated on Wozniak -
Apple
Apple Computer Inc is officially created and Mike gave $92.000 -
Wozniak work
Steve finished the apple I but everyone turned him down. -
Apple foundation
Apple Computer Company is founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne -
Ron Wayne
Ron Wayne leaves company -
Mike Markkula
one of the most important person in Apple history -
Lisa
The Lisa Project, a $2000 Apple III-like computer, begins under Ken Rothmuller. -
BASIC
Apple liscenses AppleSoft BASIC from Microsoft for $21,000. Written by Randy Wigginton -
Apple III
The Apple III is released at the National Computer Conference (NCC) for $4340 to $7800 depending on configuration. -
Apple grew
Apple goes public and earned a lot of money per day -
Case-design
The Mac case-design is finished and finally approved -
Lisa and Apple
The Lisa is introduced for $9998. The Apple IIe is introduced for $1395, later aguably becoming the most successful and most popular Apple computer. It will be produced for 10 and a half more years. -
Macintosh plan
The Macintosh Introduction Plan, a list of popular developers and celebrities that are invited to beta-test the Mac, is written -
Apple IIc
Apple IIc introduced at the Apple Forever Conference in San Diego. The Apple III+ is finally discontinued. -
1984
Apple airs "1984" during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVII -
Apple IIc award
Apple IIc wins Industrial Design Excellence Award. -
Nwe company
Jobs announces intent to create new company with other "lower-level" employees. -
Suit against Jobs
Apples files suit against Jobs. Apple claims Jobs knows sensitive technology secrets that he might use in his new company. -
NeXT beginnig
Jobs finishes selling all but one of his 6.5 million shares of stock to begin NeXT, Inc. -
NeXT OS
The NeXTstep OS is introduced. It will eventually be bought by Apple and used in its next generation OS, Rhapsody. -
NeXT 3.0
Steve Jobs announces NeXTstep 3.0, NeXTstep 486, a version of NeXTstep that could run on an Intel 486 simultaneously with MS-DOS, and promises 33 MHz '40 processor versions of the NeXTcube and NeXTstation/Color at the NeXTWORLD Expo in San Fransisco. NeXT would eventually move its OS entirely to the Intel x86 platform.Coincidently, the exposition is held at the same time and in the same city as the Macworld Expo. -
PowerMacs
Apple releases the first PowerMacs (6100/60, 7100/66, 8100/80) using the PowerPC 601. -
Apple and NeXT
Apple buys NeXT, Inc. for $430 million. -
Mac OS 8
Mac OS 8 is finally released. Selling 1.25 million copies in less than 2 weeks, it becomes the best-selling software in that period -
Apple´s profit
Apple announced their third consecutive profit, $101 million, higher than anyone had expected. "Apple is back" stories surface all over Internet, print, and TV. Macworld Expo higlights the many features of the iMac, and reveals Apple's software and hardware strategies for the rest of the millenium. -
Mac OS 8.5
Apple announces its first profitable year since 1995. Mac OS 8.5 is released to an ecstatic audience, promised Copland features appear. It is found that 43% of all iMac buyers are new to the Macintosh platform, an unimaginable number of new prospective buyers.