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Beginning of Apple
Steve Jobs and Wozniak meet each other. -
Beginning of Microsoft
Bill Gates starts Microsoft along with Paul Allen.MTS Computer buy first computer language program from Microsoft -
Apple 1
Steve Wozniak start working on Apple 1,Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. -
Apple Starts
Apple is founded by Wozniak,Steve Jobs and Wayne -
Apple 2
Apple 2 is offered to the public, became one of several recognizable and successful computers during the 1980s and early 1990s, although this was mainly limited to the USA -
Apple Lisa
The Lisa was a more advanced system than the Macintosh of this time in many respects. -
Development of Lisa
Steve Jobs was forced out of the Lisa project,he joined the Macintosh project. The Macintosh is not a direct descendant of Lisa, although there are obvious similarities between the systems. The final revision, the Lisa 2/10, was modified and sold as the Macintosh XL, -
IBM and Microsoft
IBM uses Microsoft OS,this was a 16 bit OS for IBM,for IBM this was the first personal computer. -
Microsoft Mouse
Microsoft Mouse is initiated,is for the MS-DOS,his year Paul Allen resigns from his EXEC VP POSITION. -
Sculley
Pepsios John Sclley is hired as CEO of Apple -
Microsoft Stock Market debut
Microsoft offers stock,each stock was worth 21$ -
Microsoft V 2.03
Microsoft release V 2.03 with many improvements taken from MAC. -
Windows V 3.0
Is the third major release of Microsoft Windows,It became the first widely successful version of Windows and a rival to Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga on the GUI front -
Bill Gates awarded
National Medal of Technoloy is given to him -
Sculley
he joins Spectrum nstead of Apple -
Microsoft and IBM
they sign a join development agreement -
Vermeer Technologies
is bought by Microsoft,frontpage was their application,which was also incorporated by Microsoft. -
The Return of Steve Jobs
He return to Apple after being fired a few years earlier.
