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the founders of apple were Steve jobs
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1977: The Apple II with a one-megahertz processor becomes the first mass produced computer and an instant hit.
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34-year-old Jef Raskin joins Apple Computer exactly one year after becoming incorporated.
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Raskin refuses proposal to work on Annie Project, a $500 game machine.
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The Apple III is released at the National Computer Conference
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Mike Markkula becomes president of Apple
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Jobs convinces Bill to write a BASIC interpreter for the Mac
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The Apple IIe is introduced for $1395, later arguably becoming the most successful and most popular Apple computer.
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introduced at the Apple Forever Conference in San Diego
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Apple renames the Lisa 2/10 the Macintosh XL
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Apple settles law suit against Jobs out of court. Jobs agrees not to hire any Apple employees for 6 months, and to always make computers that are more powerful than anything Apple has to offer...yes, you read right.
February: Jobs finishes selling all but one of his 6.5 million shares of stock -
Apple celebrates its tenth birthday.
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The Apple IIc+, the last in the Apple II line, is introduced.
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Apple rents space at the Logan landfill and trashes the remaining 2,700 Lisa models
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The NeXTstation is released for $4995, one year after the introduction of the NeXTstep OS. It used the new 25 MHz '40, 2.88 MB floppy drive, 105MB HD, 8MB RAM, and monochrome monitor. Also introduced was the NeXTstation Color for $7995 with a 16" monitor capable of 4,096 colors, and 12 MB RAM. The $7995 NeXTcube was next, with the same configuration as a NeXTstation Color except it could use a 32-bit video board for 16.7 million colors in Adobe's Display Postscript.
1991
