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Jef Raskin (Mac creator) writes Ph.D. thesis here he coins the term "QuickDraw" for the first time.
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Bil Fernandez introduces hisbuddy Steve Jobs to his neighbor Steve Wozniak.
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Xerox opens Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and employs the greatest minds in the field to research advances in computer science.
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Jobs becomes one of the first 50 employees at Atari, under Atari founder Nolan K.
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PARC finishes work on the $40,000 Alto. It becomes the first true PC, and first GUI-operated computer and used the first laser printer.
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Works build his own microcomputer, he begins on the Apple I.
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Woz finishes work on the Apple I.
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Apple was created by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne.
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Apple I introduced $666.66 at the Home Brew Computer Club meeting.
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Woz shows an Apple II prototype to Commodore representatives, they turns him down.
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Byte Shop order finished 1 day before deadline. Ron Wayne leaves company.
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Jobs asks his former take Mike Markkula as his boss who becomes a key person in Apple's history for over twenty years.
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Commodore buys MOS Technology, the company who makes the processors powered by the Apple I and II.
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Apple Computer, Inc. is officially created after the company is incorporated.
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Jef Raskin joins Apple Computer exactly one year after becoming incorporated.
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Jobs' daughter, Lisa Nicole, is born
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Daniel Fylstra writes CalcuLedger and offers it to Apple and Microsoft for $1 million. Both turn him down.
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The Lisa Project, a $2000 Apple III-like computer, begins.
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Apple liscenses AppleSoft BASIC from Microsoft for $21,000
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Jobs takes his first visit to PARC in exchange for allowing Xerox to invest $1 million in Apple.
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Jobs returns to PARC with several vice presidents and management heads.
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Lisa project revamped to include all the features of the Alto,
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Apple get 15 Xerox employees to work on the Lisa Project, jobs hire it
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Apple goes public. Apple's share rises 32% that day, making 40 employees instant millionares. Jobs, the largest shareholder, makes $217 million dollars alone. Markkula makes $203 million that day, an incomprehensible 220,700% return on investment . Neither Jef Raskin, nor Daniel Kottke (one of the original Apple employees) were allowed to buy stock and so made no money during this time.
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Mike Markkula becomes president of Apple.
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Jobs forces himself into the Macintosh Project, after earlier dismissing and often trying to cancel it.
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IBM introduces the IBM PC for $1565. With 16k RAM, a 5.25" floppy drive, running the first version of MS-DOS, it is a rather pitiful computer that rarely reached the efficiency of the Apple II released 4 years earlier. Nevertheless, it becomes an instant success.
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After Jobs forces Raskin out of the Macintosh project, he officially resigns.
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Jobs convinces Bill to write a BASIC interpreter for the Mac. This will become the failed MS BASIC.
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JObs convinces John Sculley, tehn president of PepsiCo, to become president and CEO of Apple. JObs convinces John Sculley, tehn president of PepsiCo, to become president and CEO of Apple.
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Apple enters Fortune 500 at #411 after only five years of existence. It becomes the fastest growing company in history.
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The Apple III+ is introduced for $2995. It replaced the defective Apple III models to apple company
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IBM sells 1 million IBM PCs, and introduces the big flop IBM PC/Jr. Bill Gates first announces Windows, and how the GUI will revolutionize the PC. Microsoft will not release it for 4 more years.
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Lisa released without bundled software for $6995.
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Apple IIc introduced at the Apple Forever Conference in San Diego. And Apple III+ is finally discontinued.
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Apple airs "1984" during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII
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Apple IIc wins Industrial Design Excellence Award.
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Apple IIe enchanced introduced.
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Jobs tries to force Sculley out of Apple by forming a coup against him.
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Jobs is stripped of all his duties. He job description becomes "global thinker", and his remote office dubbed "Siberia".
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Apple renames the Lisa 2/10 the Macintosh XL, and discontinues all other Lisa configurations.
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Jobs distributes his resignation letter to Apple and several other news media figures.
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Apple sells 500,000 Macintosh models.
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Apples files suit against Jobs. Apple claims Jobs knows sensitive technology secrets that he might use in his new company.
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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.
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Apple sells but one of his 6.5 million shares of stock to begin NeXT, Inc.
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The Apple IIGS is introduced for $999.
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Apple celebrates its tenth birthday. A coffee table book, So Far, later chronicles the experiences of the last ten years.
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Apple renames the Lisa 2/10 the Macintosh XL, and discontinues all other Lisa configurations.
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Apple declares 6 different Mac Pluses the 1 milionth Mac. Raskin is presented with one of them, which he still uses
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The Apple IIc+, the last in the Apple II line, is introduced. GS/OS System 1, a Mac-like GUI for the IIGS, is introduced.
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Apple Corps., the Beatle's record company, files a trademark infringement suit against Apple.
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Apple rents space at the Logan landfill and trashes the remaining 2,700 Lisa models
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Apple rents space at the Logan landfill and trashes the remaining 2,700 Lisa models.
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The NeXTstep OS is introduced. It will eventually be bought by Apple and used in its next generation OS, Rhapsody.
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In 1991 Apple continued to build on its founders’ guiding principle—that the individual, not the mainframe, should be at the center of the computing universe.
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IBM sent a letter of intent to Apple, saying it would help finish Pink and liscense its RISC processor in the works (PowerPC).
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The Apple/IBM alliance becomes official. Among the many agreements, Apple and IBM will create PowerPC-based machines and produce two companies, Taligent and Kaleida. The former a now-defunct company that worked on the now-defunct Pink, the latter a company that produces multimedia tools.
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Apple settled suit with Apple Corps, agreeing to pay $26.5 million.
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Jobs lays off 280 of his 530 NeXT employees on "Black Tuesday". Sells his hardware line to Canon, and tries to become a Microsoft-like company by concentrating only on the NeXTstep OS for the Intel x86 platform
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Michael Spindler replaces Sculley as CEO of Apple
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Apple liscenses PowerPC ROMs to DayStar Digital, so they can begin creating PPC Upgrade cards. DayStar also later becomes one of the first Mac OS liscense holders, as well an authority in multiprocessing PowerPC-based Macs.
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Sculley resigns from Apple, joins the ailing Spectrum.
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Apple releases the 66 MHz PowerPC Upgrade Card, the first commercial PowerPC product.
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announces the Copland Project (defunct Mac OS 8, superceded by Rhapsody.
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Apple releases the first PowerMacs (6100/60, 7100/66, 8100/80) using the PowerPC 601.
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Apple releases System 7.5, with a bunch of new features everybody already had as shareware.
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IBM and Motorola ship 66 MHz and 80 MHz 603, and a 100 MHz 604. PReP (a.k.a. CHRP, PPCP) Project begins, which will be able to run Windows 95/NT and the Mac OS in one PowerPC machine.
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Apple releases the first PCI Mac, the $5000 PowerMac 9500/120 using the new Tsunami motherboard.
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Spindler was asked to resign as CEO and was replaced by Gil Amelio, the former president of National Semiconductor
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Apple liscenses the Mac OS to Motorola, allows authority to subliscense for the first time.
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Apple celebrates its 20th birthday. The 20th Anniversary Macintosh is announced to commerate the occasion.
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Apple buys NeXT, Inc. for $430 million. Development of Windows NT for PowerPC stops.
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: Apple liscenses Mac OS to IBM. PowerPC 603e and 604e reach 200 MHz.
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Apple kills Copland Project. IBM and Motorola demo their CHRP prototypes. The third generation of PowerPC processors (G3) is announced. Motorola, Apple, and IBM predict an exponential gain in performance.
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Mac OS 7.6, the first part of Apple's new OS strategy, is released exactly 13 years after the introduction of the Macintosh.
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Steve Jobs, back as an "advisor" due to the NeXT deal, announces the future of Rhapsody, Mac OS 8, Allegro, and Sonata, the Mac, NeXT, and Apple in general at Macworld Expo.
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Apple Computer Company is founded by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ron Wayne.
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former "advisor" Steve Jobs becomes "de facto head", announces Microsoft alliance at the Macworld Expo in Boston. Among the agreements are a cross-platform liscense, $150 million invested in Apple stocks, an undisclosed ammount of money for Apple (rumored to be $800 million), the production of MS Office for 5 years, and MS Internet Explorer as the default browser for the Mac OS.
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Apple buys Power Computing's liscense and core assets, halts all CHRP liscensing. Motorola suspends shipment of StarMax 6000, the first CHRP Mac.
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formerly "de facto head" Steve Jobs becomes "interim CEO" of Apple. Jobs remains CEO to this day.
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Apple seeds Rhapsody Developer Release 1.0. The new next-generation OS holds great promise for the computer industry
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At worldwide "Apple Event", Apple releases the PowerMac G3. The Apple Store is also introduced, and a deal is made with CompUSA for an "Apple store within the store". Though this greatly increases Mac sales, many disapointed by lack of bigger news.
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After a little over 5 years, the Newton/eMate line has been discontinued by Apple. Instead, mobile-based products using Mac OS technology will be developed by 1999.
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Apple "stores within stores" open in all of the 149 CompUSA locations across the country, answering the cry of many Mac users who loathe the patheticly small, incomplete, and out of stock Apple sections most retail computer stores provide.
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Apple announces the iMac and new PowerBook G3 models. Two of the most innovative machines I've ever seen
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Jobs announces a projected $47 million profit for the first quarter at Macworld Expo, finally bringing Apple back to profitability.
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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.
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Apple announces 150,000 preorders for the iMac. Apple goes over $40/share, highest stock market price in three years.
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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.
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Apple licenses the Mac OS to Radius and Power Computing.
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Apple had a banner year for the company since this was the year that they introduced the Apple iPod, which is one of those devices that have many other companies copying, though none can be as good as the original.
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Apple unveiled the iTunes Music Store, which would sell individual songs through the iTunes application, for 99 cents each.
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removed the world computer
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is the most admired Company
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is the most admired Company
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Apple had 46.600 full time employes and 2.800 temporary employes. And had $65.23 billion annual sales.
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is the most admired Company
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Apple released iTunes for Windows.