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Apple was founded April 1, 1976 in Cupertino CA. The founders were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. They worked in Steve Wozniak's garage, which is now considered a historic site.
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The Apple I was the first Apple product sold. It was a small, personal computer. It was sold for $666.66
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The second product Apple released was the Apple II. This product came with a keyboard, a monitor, and a cassette recorder. Though, later they changed the cassette recorder to a floppy disk.
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Apple moved to their first real headquarters. The team was small at the time, but they needed more space to build computers. It was still in Cupertino, CA.
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The first Apple printer, the Silentype was released for $599. It was small, and only worked with the Apple III.
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Apple employees were given the opportunity to visit the Xerox Parc facilities. This was so that they could see the Xerox Alto, a computer designed with graphical user interface (GUI). This inspired Steve Jobs, since he thought that all computers would use GUI in the future.
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The Apple III is released. This was the first Apple computer to be sold with a built-in floppy drive. Steve Jobs didn't want for the Apple III to have a cooling fan because they were loud and took up space, so the computer had issues with overheating.
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Apple releases the Lisa computer. This was a big deal for Apple, because it was the first personal computer to be sold with GUI. There wasn't high demand for it because of the high price and limited abilities.
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Apple releases the Macintosh operating system. This was a popular because of a Super Bowl commercial; directed by Ridley Scott.
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Steve Jobs left Apple due to people telling him he couldn't do certain things. Steve Wozniak joined him. Later on, Steve Jobs acquired a job at Pixar.
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Macintosh 512k and the original Macintosh were discontinued. Apple creates Macintosh 512k Enhanced instead.
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The Mac II and the Mac SE are released in 1987. They sold at a price of $6500. These computers were a big success for Apple since they got other engineers to help them out with these projects.
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By March of 1987, Apple has created 1 million Macs. This is a huge milestone for the company.
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Apple decides to sue Microsoft over GUI. Both of the companies were using GUI, and since Apple did it first, they sued Microsoft for 'taking their ideas'.
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Apple gets sued by The Beatles' Apples Corps and by Xerox. Once again, they both had very similar ideas. Apple lost a lot of money after this point.
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Apple's first portable Mac is The Mac Portable. This was one of the first PC's that was fast and portable. This is run by an internal lead-acid gel/cell battery. It can be similarly compared to a car battery.
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The Powerbook was 100 was another one of Apple's portable PCs. Its design is very similar to modern laptops. It weighed 17 pounds and had a 12-hour battery life.
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System 7 was an improved system which brought new features and added color to the interface. It required a hard drive because it was so large. It came with things such as HyperCard, ClarisWorks, Power Pete, Mac-Chess, and Netscape. PowerPC Macintoshes included Graphing Calculator.
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The Newton MessagePad was Apple's first touchscreen, handheld device, though it was a flop. It was meant to resemble a notepad, but people just didn't think it was very useful.
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Steve Jobs returns to Apple as the interim CEO. Apple was at a low financial point, so he had big plan's for it's future. Eventually Jobs would become the CEO.
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The iMac was released in 1998 for $1,299. It was a commonly used desktop computer with a 15-inch built-in monitor. It also came with a nice case. This is also the product which started Apple's 'i' trend.
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The iPod was launched the first iPod in October of 2001. It was a small white box that stored 5GB of music. It wasn't popular until 2004.
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Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreas cancer in 2003. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the tumor.
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Apple changed it's name from Apple Computers Inc. to Apple Inc. They did this because computers weren't their main focus- they had many different technologies other than computers at this point.
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The first iPhone was announced on January 9th, 2007. This was Apple's first phone, and the start of a new era for technology.
