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In his thesis, he uses the term "Quickdraw" for the first time. (QuickDraw later became Quicktime.)
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Raskin begins to take several trips to PARC as a visiting scholar for the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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It becomes the first true PC, and first GUI-operated computer. It also used the first laser printer, and was connected to other Altos using the first Ethernet network.
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Woz becomes intrigued by the Altair 8800 often shown there. He cannot afford one so he decides to build his own microcomputer. Work begins on the Apple I.
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Byte Shop orders finished just one day before deadline.
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Mike Markkula becomes a significant person in Apple's future.
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He bcomes employee #31.
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He initially denies the possibility of being the father, but came to accept her.
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Expected release was March 1981.
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Written by Randy Wigginton, who also created MacWrite.
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It is a $500 portable computer smilar to his PITS proposal.
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It becomes one of the most successful programs ever, being the first "killer app".
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Rothmuller complains the specs are too much to be accomplished if they want to retain the current release schedule and keep the final price reasonable. Jobs fires Rothmuller for "not cooperating", later replaced by John Couch.
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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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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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This will become the failed MS BASIC.
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he officially resigns.
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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.
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It becomes the fastest growing company in history.
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Microsoft will not release it for 4 more years.
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It replaced the defective Apple III models.
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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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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.
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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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Motorola, Apple, and IBM predict an exponential gain in performance.
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Development of Windows NT for PowerPC stops.
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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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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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