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Chronology of the Apple
Computer until 1987
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- 1971 Stephen Wozniak and Bill Fernandez build
their "Cream Soda computer."
- 1972 Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs begin
selling blue boxes.
- 1973 Stephen Wozniak joins Hewlett-Packard.
- 1974 Steve Jobs joins Atari
- 1975 Apple I
- 1976 Apple becomes a company
- Wozniak and Jobs form the Apple Computer Company on April Fool's
Day.
- Apple Computer opens its first offices in Cupertino and
introduces the Apple II. It is the first personal computer with
color graphics. It has a 6502 CPU, 4KB RAM,16KB ROM, keyboard, 8-slot
motherboard, game paddles, and built-in BASIC.
- 1978 Apple introduces and begins shipping disk
drives for the Apple II and initiates the LISA research and development project.
- 1980 Apple III
- 1983 Three new products from Apple
- Apple Computer announces Lisa, the first business computer with
a graphical user interface launched by Apple Computer Inc.,
Cupertino, California. The computer has 5MHz 68000 CPU, 860KB
5.25 floppy, B&W screen, detached keyboard, and mouse.
- Apple IIe
- Apple III+
- 1984 The Macintosh and 2 other new products
- Macintosh personal computer, launched by Apple Computer Inc.
The first computer has 128KB of memory and a 3.5" 400KB floppy
disk-drive. The OS with astounding graphic interface is bundled
with MacWrite (wordprocessor) and MacPaint (free-hand, B&W drawing)
software.
- Apple introduces 3.5" floppy.
- Apple IIc
- 1985 Apple IIe Enhanced
- 1986 Two new computers
- Macintosh +
- Apple II GS
- 1987 Apple IIe Platinum